Effective networking powers your law career
Networking is an essential skill that you need to be demonstrating long before you are ready for partner track. If you can’t network and win your own work, you’ll find it almost impossible to make partner in your firm. My Progress to Partner Academy has entire sections of guides, short videos and webinars all aimed at getting you confident in your networking activities. If you want to learn how to create a business development habit that works for you, check out Progress to Partner Academy. Imagine self-paced video courses, guides and exercises, all aimed at professionals like you, where you can learn:
What are the 12 Key Indicators that show you’re ready to make partner?
Take my Partnership Readiness Assessment to find out your Partner Ready Score
How to Win New Business
If you want to make partner you need to show you can win business. It is often the lack of a client following that stops so many talented professionals from making the step up to partner. One of the biggest barriers, I hear potential partners say, is actually finding and making the time to grow their client portfolio.
Networking is often seen as the silver bullet to generating new clients – get it right, and you will have new clients falling over you (or so the thinking goes).
Essential resource: Create your own networking plan. I’ll send you my FREE Networking Plan template (with full instructions on how to use it.)
Part of the Business Development Program
Networking is a primary channel for Business Development but not the only one for building a revenue stream in professional services. There may be others that suit your circumstances or personal style.. Public speaking, Sales Development, Referrals, Social Media and Content Marketing.
But first you need a Networking Plan! Essential resource: Create your own networking plan. I’ll send you my FREE Networking Plan template (with full instructions on how to use it.)
Growing In Confidence
Everything is easier when you have a plan.
Being purposeful improves your networking experience. Our guides and courses are nuanced and comprehensive for newcomers.
Networking Opportunity
The upsides of networking are vast and compound over time: network effects! It has the advantage of making all your other business development activities more effective.
Sparking Motivation
Eventually, networking will become a part of our working life, even if it’s only on an internal basis at first. Don’t let it hold you back.
Networking Problems
As soon as you start to see success, you’ll quickly think about time and overwhelm. The next step is to create the space you need to network effectively.
Our Books
Progress your Career with Progress to Partner Academy
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 and what things you need to do daily, weekly and monthly that will add up to something much bigger and get you noticed as “one to watch” for partner-track and beyond in your firm
What People Say About Progress to Partner Academy
Years worth of coaching for prospective partners with online self-paced courses, guides and videos.
I worked my way through the ‘How to truly commit to moving your career forward’ course first as I had no career plan. Already, feedback from my Managing Partner is that my attitude has improved.
Tax Director
UK
I worked my way through the ‘How to truly commit to moving your career forward’ course first as I had no career plan. Already, feedback from my Managing Partner is that my attitude has improved.
Tax Director
UK
I worked my way through the ‘How to truly commit to moving your career forward’ course first as I had no career plan. Already, feedback from my Managing Partner is that my attitude has improved.
Tax Director
UK
