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How early should I start preparing for partnership?

“How early should I start preparing for partnership?” is a question that I get asked by lawyers, accountants, and consultants very often. “I want to make partner in the next 12 months” is also something I hear, but more on that later. While it is possible to make it through the Partnership Admission Process within…

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How to kick-start your career when you’ve got stuck

Are you feeling stuck in your career? Have you lost your mojo? Are you bogged down by the same old, same old, but try as you might, you can’t put your finger on what you really want and what to do about it? Despite what you might see on social media, there are plenty of…

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How to move your career forward

NOTE: this post was written in 2021 after almost 12-months of Covid restrictions and lockdowns.  However, the advice on how to get your career moving forward is still invaluable so do read on! Whether you started the New Year with resolutions or specific goals or you just have clear intentions for where you want to…

a sign saying no bad days to show how habits progress your career not goals
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Why habits, not goals, are essential to progress your career

If you were asked, “What will progress your career?” I’m pretty sure that your answer would be something akin to “goal-setting plus a lot of hard work.” This would be no surprise as isn’t that the winning combination for all the personal and professional goals that we set ourselves? Let me ask you something, how…

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5 secrets to make that first day back to work as productive as possible

Do you know that dip in productivity that you get after coming back from vacation? Where the first couple of days or even that first week goes slowly, and you tell yourself that you’re just getting back into the groove of things? This is what is known as the ‘post-vacation blues’ and many lawyers, accountants,…

an icecream on the floor to symbolise mistakes made in the partnership admissions process
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7 biggest mistakes candidates make with the partnership admissions process

“Why haven’t I made partner yet?” “What made my colleague get partner over me?” “Why can’t I seem to make it through the partnership admissions process?” These three questions are ones that I hear time and time again from lawyers, accountants, and consultants who don’t make it through the partnership admissions process. While it’s true…

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Crafting a strong LinkedIn profile that gets you the results in a few simple steps

LinkedIn has become the place for professionals to network, as it is the social media platform where people network for mainly business reasons. It also has most of the decision makers you want to meet on it. When those decision makers ‘Google’ your name, LinkedIn is usually the first place that they will find you….

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Helping your clients go through the Buying Journey: How do you get your content to do your heavy lifting with clients

There are a lot of misconceptions around business development and content creation in the professional services world. The first of them being that it takes too much time. The second is that, as a lawyer, accountant or consultant, you need to sell your services. And these two are simply not true. If you want your…

Daily business development habits
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Fighting the “I don’t have time for this”. How to create daily habits for business development.

‘That’s just too hard!’, ‘I don’t know where to start!’, ‘How to find the time for business development?’, ‘…but I’m a good technician…I don’t need to win new businesses’. Sound familiar? Quite frankly, the biggest thing that holds so many great lawyers, accountants, and consultants from progressing their career is knowing how to find the…

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Your checklist to expertise: 6 daily habits you must have to become a rainmaker

Using check-lists may not sound “fun” or “creative” or anything like the reason you went into law, accountancy or consultancy, but they are essential if you want to turn on a reliable tap of new business leads coming to you. (Which then becomes the basis of your Business Case for partnership.) They are essential if…

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