What Should Actually Be in Your Default Diary
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What Should Actually Be in Your Default Diary

ByClaire Meddings

Most lawyers on the partnership track have tried time blocking. You carve out the slots, and then a real deadline arrives and the block gets sacrificed. The problem isn’t your discipline. It’s that most people are time blocking the wrong things: treating their diary like a to-do list with timestamps rather than a deliberate design…

Photo of a busy diary
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Diary Hijacked? How You Can Take Back Control of Your Time

ByClaire Meddings

Does your carefully planned week often get blown off course by Tuesday? Do you feel like your diary belongs to everyone but you – filled with urgent client demands, last-minute partner requests, and endless firefighting? It’s easy to feel like a victim of your schedule, constantly reacting instead of proactively driving your day. This feeling…

sunglasses on top of some books on the beach to represent how to switch off from work on holiday
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The Ultimate Guide to Switching Off When You’re On Holiday

ByHeather Townsend

Holidays should be relaxing – a welcome break from your busy work schedule. And yet, many of us waste them worrying about deadlines, responding to emails and returning calls that could quite honestly wait. So, in a bid to help you break these bad habits, we’re going to teach you how to switch off from…

how to cope with anxiety during the Covid-19 pandemic
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How to curb your overwhelming anxiety (particularly when worrying about the impact of CV-19 on your career and livelihood)

ByHeather Townsend

Covid-19 has triggered a huge, stressful experiment across the globe. A forced experiment where, over the past few months, people have been experiencing what it’s like to work from home whilst potentially trying to run a completely remote team and having the kids at home 24/7 too. Even worse, it looks like the working from…

18 strategies to master working from home with kids
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18 strategies to master working from home with kids

ByHeather Townsend

We’ve had to acquire many skills and address many of our weaknesses during this pandemic, but the main one we’ve all had to learn is how to juggle. For weeks, many of us have been juggling working from home with kids while trying to figure out the logistics of living in this completely unprecedented time….

9 ways to get noticed at work (& still make friends & influence people)
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9 ways to get noticed at work (& still make friends & influence people)

ByHeather Townsend

How can you get noticed at work without being seen as “showing off”? It’s a fine line between being confident about your strengths and being perceived as arrogant. So, what’s the right way to get noticed at work, to make your partners aware of your many strengths, without rubbing colleagues up the wrong way? Here…

3 ways your management skills are impacting your personal effectiveness
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3 ways your management skills are impacting your personal effectiveness

ByHeather Townsend

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…

How to fight fatigue and increase your energy levels – even if you are still in lockdown
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How to fight fatigue and increase your energy levels – even if you are still in lockdown

ByHeather Townsend

So many people I speak to recently (myself included) are telling me they are feeling fatigued and their energy levels are low. Given how much change we have had forced upon us, and our general levels of stress and anxiety, this isn’t surprising. Add in the threat of an impending global recession, firms pausing recruitment,…

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