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Why Leadership Training Typically Fails
Let’s face it, you can’t really teach leadership in a classroom. Yet loads of partners go off to business schools such as Harvard, INSEAD, LBS where they review case studies and learn about techniques such as Porter’s 5 Forces and … Continue reading
Should Leaders be Loved or Feared?
Niccolo Machiavelli hedged his bets when answering this question and said “one should wish to be both”. But he went on to say “because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared … Continue reading
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Tagged cortisol, feared, Leadership, machiavelli, Partners, testosterone, warmth
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The First 100 Days – A Coaching Programme for New Partners
What a big step it is to go from senior associate to partner. To go from a ‘middle’ to a ‘top’. All those new responsibilities. A sense that the buck now stops with you. All those decisions to make. Those … Continue reading
Posted in Coaching and Training, Leadership and Management
Tagged coaching, Leadership, sustainability
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Career Progression for Lawyers – Transitions and Reinventions
For many associates there isn’t a great feeling of career advancement. One senior L&D director describes it as more like a process of walking across a barren desert with tumbleweed blowing across a poorly defined track and occasional signs that … Continue reading
Strategy & Implementation – do staff members know where they’re going?
This amazing incident, related by the Hungarian Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorti and preserved in a poem by Holub (1977), happened during military manoeuvres in Switzerland. The young lieutenant of a small Hungarian detachment in the Alps sent a reconnaissance unit … Continue reading
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Tagged direction, implementation, Leadership, map, strategy
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Managing Generation Y – What Works and What Doesn’t!
Managing the new generation of talent clearly isn’t easy in law firms. Are law firms getting it right with this new Gen Y and their different values? Our work in Sherwood PSF Consulting shows vast differences between firms in performance … Continue reading
Are some of your lawyers a bit bored? Might this cause some under-performance issues?
If they are bored, let’s start by exploring what might be causing the boredom? One of the subjects that one of my partners Sally Woodward and I are really interested in is motivation – in particular, what motivates and demotivates … Continue reading
Posted in Coaching and Training, Leadership and Management, Managing Change, Strategy
Tagged career path, challenges, Lawyers, Leadership, motivation, Partners
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What Lawyers Could Learn about Client Relationships …..from Psychologists
We tend to think that we’re rational and have a logical basis for making decisions. Behavioural psychologists show that we’re wrong if we think that. How can lawyers benefit from greater insights into the strange workings of clients’ brains? Kahneman, … Continue reading
Effective Partners are Resonant Partners
I have been inspired by the ‘mindfulness’ work done by Michael Chaskalson. Here are his thoughts on resonant leadership…. If you’ve ever worked under a good partner you’ll know how satisfying that can be. Good partners make work enjoyable, however … Continue reading
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Tagged EI, emotional intelligence, EQ, Leadership, mindfulness, resonance, stress
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How to Start Being More Impressive and Effective
We are who we are! Can’t change! Take us or leave us! Right? Well, possibly. But what would it look like if we could change? Would we be more effective and enjoy our work more? This article will be particularly … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership and Management, Networking
Tagged behaviour, effective, feelings, impressive, Leadership, patterns, personal development, systems thinking
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