Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

You may have heard this story before, but here is how it goes: A young lawyer went to her mother and told her about how hard she was finding the COVID-19 restrictions and that...

February 26, 20200Comments

Is It Time You Started Your Own Law Firm?

When you think about starting your own law firm, what springs to mind? Perhaps you see the freedom to choose your own path, unconstrained by those above or around you; the...

November 26, 20190Comments

The Power of Insight

Using MiRo Psychometric Testing to optimise your team Do you want to know how your team members think and behave? Insight is a wonderful thing. If you really have a handle on...

September 26, 20190Comments

Eight Difficult Behaviours in Team Meetings – and How to Deal With Them

Nothing can shatter a meeting quite like difficult behaviour from one or more of the participants. It is not easy to run a successful meeting at the best of times, and...

August 7, 20190Comments

Make your Team Meetings Work for You: Executing and Following-up

Executing the meeting is where it all comes together – all of the careful planning, all of the meticulous preparation. These foundations are important, but how you handle the...

July 8, 20193Comments

Make Your Team Meetings Work for You: Planning and Preparing

In my last blog post, I asked the question: What is the point of your team meetings? In other words, why have them at all? If you are unsold on the idea of the much-maligned...

June 8, 20193Comments

What is the point of your team meetings?

This is a question which must have been asked countless times by countless lawyers. It is popular to grumble and whinge about team meetings, and there are so many jokes and...

April 29, 20190Comments

Is it time you created some time boundaries at work?

Time. For a busy lawyer, there’s never enough of it. Time pressure is one of the most significant factors causing lawyers to ‘burn-out’ at work. Heavy workloads, crucial...

March 13, 20190Comments

Is your desire to be perfect driving you into the Impostor Syndrome?

As a skills trainer for lawyers, seeing people work to improve themselves and become the best they can be, is part of my raison d’etre. It is always commendable for someone to...

February 7, 20190Comments

Appraising your staff appraisals – are your meetings successful or stressful?

When it’s time for you to conduct staff appraisal meetings in your organisation, how does it make you feel? Does your heart sing, anticipating meaningful, productive...

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