Reading Time: 4 minutes | by Heather Townsend | Updated Oct 26, 2018
The world of performance management is changing. The latest thinking suggests that we shouldn’t have one (or 2) big performance reviews with our team every year, but an on-going conversation about performance all throughout the year. This is a change I...
Reading Time: 2 minutes | by Heather Townsend | Updated Aug 29, 2018
I was having a conversation recently with a client who had been newly promoted to director in his Big 4 firm. The conversation inspired this article as we were looking at how he utilised his time. He thought he needed to work smarter in order to work harder. However,...
Reading Time: 3 minutes | by Heather Townsend | Updated Mar 27, 2018
Improving team performance is a great idea, but sometimes the team is struggling – or maybe it’s your team leader who can’t quite get her team going. This article is about improving team performance, whether it’s your team, or you need to...
Reading Time: 2 minutes | by Heather Townsend | Updated Nov 7, 2015
Making partner is more than just proving you can win work. You also need to prove that you can build and develop a team. As a ‘team leader’ you will be playing multiple different roles. In this article, based on an extract from Poised for Partnership, I...
Reading Time: 3 minutes | by Jon Baker | Updated Jun 20, 2015
In this article, Jon Baker, talks about how you can lead your team so that they can free you up to build your portfolio to make partner (or full equity partner) It is possible to make partner just by your own merits. However, if you want to successfully take the...
Reading Time: 4 minutes | by Heather Townsend | Updated Jul 24, 2015
Motivating your team, particularly when the going is tough, is hard work. In this extract from an interview with Errol Williamson in Spring 2015, I talk about how to get your team onside and motivate them to higher levels of performance....
