I’m Heather Townsend, author of Poised for Partnership and co-author of How to Make Partner & Still Have a Life. I’m the leading global expert in what it takes to move from senior fee earner to partner . I created the How to Make Partner website and Progress to Partner Academy to help lawyers, accountants and consultants like you to realise that you need stop waiting patiently to get noticed, take control of your own career progression to get noticed as “one to watch” for partner-track and beyond in your firm.
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3 ways your management skills are impacting your personal effectiveness
When people talk about personal effectiveness, everyone automatically assumes it is about how you personally manage and organise your workflow. Actually, personal effectiveness is as much about the people around you, and how you interact with them, as it is about your personal organisation. I can lecture you until I am blue in the face…
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6 clues that you are letting your team members get away with poor performance
If you are going to make it successfully up to equity partner and beyond, you will need a high performing team working for you. A high performing team doesn’t happen by chance! If you are going to lick your team into shape, you have to be prepared to have difficult conversations about performance with individuals…
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3 ways to motivate your team to get them to work harder
There are always going to be times when you need to ask for more from your team in your law firm, accountancy firm or other professional service firm. It may be your busy season, or maybe your firm has made headcount cuts – but the workload has stayed the same. In this blog post, we…
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5 simple ways to unlock the productivity of your team and help them take the initiative
Do you have a team that just doesn’t seem to have any initiative? Or do you just want to know how to get people to take the initiative? If only they would do what is obvious to you – life would be so much easier! I’m Heather Townsend, author of Poised for Partnership and co-author of How to Make…
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Has your workload temporarily dried up? Here are 6 ways to keep usefully busy!
We are used to being “too busy” – our daily lives consisting of juggling work tasks, looming deadlines, clocking out late, and then waking up to do it all over again – but somehow we manage. Somehow we manage to keep pressing on and any dreams of a ‘break in the schedule’ are pushed to…
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The only 2 steps you need to help your team members work from home (tip: it’s all about creating a new routine)
Wondering how to help your employees work from home? With the current global focus on social distancing, many firms are continuing remote working to prioritise the safety of their employees. As the UK government has strongly recommended that office-based workers work from home for the foreseeable future (if possible), this means that helping your team…
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7 ways to make sure your remote employees are actually working
So many professionals are spending at least part of their week working from home. Even lawyers, accountants and consultants. As the biggest challenges to remote management are keeping track of employees, engaging with them, and ensuring they are productively working during office hours, this article outlines 7 ways to tackle them head-on. This is all…
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3 ways to stay positive for others when you are scared and worried too (you have to do them all!)
Whatever high-impact role you’re in – whether you’re a lawyer, accountant or consultant who manages a team or a parent with young children, perhaps both – things like anxiety, burnout, constant worry, and even depression may be par for the course. The difference now, however, is that there is a global pandemic and at the…
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The Lawyer, Accountant, and Consultant’s guide: How to create a new daily structure when working from home for the first time
With the current UK government guidance being that office-based workers should carry on working from home for the foreseeable future, now is the time to really make good your daily structure when working from home. When we speak to our clients at the moment we are finding: the adrenaline-fuelled buzz at the start of lockdown…
