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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

ByHeather Townsend

“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

ByHeather Townsend

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….

clients buying journey
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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

ByHeather Townsend

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…

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

ByHeather Townsend

‘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

ByHeather Townsend

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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The 6 greatest barriers to effective networking – which do you struggle with?

ByHeather Townsend

What are the greatest barriers to effective business networking? Every lawyer, accountant, and consultant knows that business networking is an essential component for career success; they invest time and effort building their list of contacts and developing the relationships with people as they know it’s key to business growth. Although like many smart, talented people,…

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A definitive guide to job hunting for lawyers, accountants, and consultants (part 2)

ByHeather Townsend

There is more than one trail to the summit of a mountain. The same is true for job hunting. There are many strategies, many channels that you can use to find your ideal role, but like the trails to the top of a mountain, there are only a few consistent ways that result in success…

a cheetah hunting to symbolise how to job hunt effectively
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A definitive guide to job hunting for lawyers, accountants, and consultants (part 1)

ByHeather Townsend

There is more than one trail to the summit of a mountain. The same is true for job hunting. There are many strategies, many channels that you can use to find your ideal role, but like the trails to the top of a mountain, there are only a few consistent ways that result in success…

What does it mean to be made partner
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Has your workload temporarily dried up? Here are 6 ways to keep usefully busy!

ByHeather Townsend

We are used to being “too busy” – our daily lives consisting of juggling work tasks, looming deadlines, clocking out late, and then waking up to do it all over again – but somehow we manage. Somehow we manage to keep pressing on and any dreams of a ‘break in the schedule’ are pushed to…

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The only 2 steps you need to help your team members work from home (tip: it’s all about creating a new routine)

ByHeather Townsend

Wondering how to help your employees work from home? With the current global focus on social distancing, many firms are continuing remote working to prioritise the safety of their employees. As the UK government has strongly recommended that office-based workers work from home for the foreseeable future (if possible), this means that helping your team…

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