Tips, ideas, techniques and general musings on the theme of how to build a high performing team
The transition out of lockdown looks like it’s going to be a painfully long and slow process. What this means for professionals, especially if they are going to get through this difficult period, is that they quickly need to learn how to manage their team while they continue working from home. As the biggest challenges …
7 ways to make sure your remote employees are actually working Read More »
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 …
For a long time, physical meetings were considered far more productive and collaborative than online meetings. As technology continues to progress over time, however, this thinking has slowly been changing especially as more and more companies are starting to embrace remote working. Fast forward to today and we have a truly unique situation on our …
How do we give feedback that works and is effective? Ideally, feedback is meant to be a gift. It’s a way for someone to be better and to do better. But as we all know, it doesn’t work this way in real life. People sometimes get triggered by feedback, positive or negative. So the question …
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 completely agree with. The amount of time taken up with meaningless appraisals which go …
5 radical but much needed changes to the current performance review process Read More »
Every firm has some parts that work well and some that don’t. If you have realised that your team is struggling and not doing as well as you’d like, you are probably wondering how you can work with them to get them performing better. Improving team performance is a great idea and one that will …
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 look at the 5 different roles team leaders …
It is possible to make partner just by your own merits. However, if you want to successfully take the step up to a full equity partner, then you will need to have built a team behind you. Even if you are in a law firm! With this team, there is one thing, above all, …
What is the biggest priority as a team leader? You may be surprised Read More »
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. EW: In your book ‘How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life’, Part …
How to construct a speech which inspires a team to improve its performance Read More »
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 …
Inheriting a new team – how to decide which team members to keep? Read More »
