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Inheriting a new team – how to decide which team members to keep?
When you get made up to partner, either through a promotion or a lateral move, it is not uncommon to inherit a new team, or a dysfunctional group of people who happen – more because of a HR structure chart – to belong to the same team. Your long term success as partner is driven…
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How to overcome the challenge of selling yourself when going from industry into practice
Going from industry into practice as a junior partner, director, senior associate or partner-designate can be a good way of making partner. As with all the routes to making partner, this one has its challenges and its benefits. The biggest challenge with this route is the fact that you may not have had to sell…
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5 savvy tips to get time to think even in the middle of a client crisis
When you work within the professions and have to record every six minutes, thinking space can be a bit of a luxury. However, time to think isn’t a luxury you can’t afford, it is an absolute necessity to be able to perform and make the right decisions. Here are our 5 tips to get your…
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Is the curse of professionalism limiting your career progression?
A few months ago I was helping a group of consultants put together their personal marketing kit. Despite most of the consultants handling client portfolios worth over £1 million, they almost all suffered with the curse of professionalism, which was stopping them taking the next step in their career. I’m Heather Townsend, author of Poised for Partnership…
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5 clever ways to get your mentor and sponsoring partner to help you to make partner
Your mentor and/or sponsoring partner can literally make or break your transition from senior associate/director through to making partner. Based on our recent experiences of helping clients successfully get appointed to a partnership position in a top 6 firm in the UK, here are 5 tips your sponsoring partner and/or mentor can help you get…
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5 tips from a new partner to pass the competency based interview
It is always good to hear when one of our clients gets the partner role they wanted. It is even better when they give us detailed feedback about the process they went through, plus their tips to help others make it through! Following on from this post, here are 5 tips from one of our…
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Your guide to demystifying competency based interviews within the partnership admissions process
It is always good to hear when one of our clients gets the partner role they wanted. It is even better when they give us detailed feedback about the process they went through, plus their tips to help others make it through! You can normally expect to do a series of interviews within the partnership…
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5 ways of increasing your odds of making it through partnership track
Being told you are on partnership track, or in line for partnership, or going to be put up for partnership is a great sign that you are nearing the end of your journey to make partner. This post explores what you can do in the 12-24 months before the admission process starts to help you…
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What are your partners really thinking when they consider your application for partnership?
Probably the biggest mistake that any potential partner makes is to consider the partnership admission process as a long drawn out job interview or panel for promotion. This article shines a light onto what the partnership admissions process actually is trying to achieve, and therefore, what the partners involved in the partnership admissions process will…
