16 ways to improve your work life balance
Part 1 of a post looking at 16 ways of how you can improve your work life balance.
5 foolproof ways to get your staff to take initiative (and why they won’t take it in the first place)
“Why won’t my staff take initiative?” , “why do they always come to me with any little problem?” , “why do I have to spoonfeed my staff?” These are questions that a lot of managers ask and don’t know the answer to, so this is what this article is all about. How can you encourage…
How to take back control of your time and workload if it has gone sky-high due to Coronavirus
Overwhelming workload: Is this your reality at the moment? You have clients calling you on the landline, mobile and via Whatsapp or Facetime? Add into the mix you have multiple pings coming at you from all the communication channels you have set up to keep in touch with your team who are now working from…
Blog | Building your client portfolio | Building your team | Client Management | client service | delegation | Managing others | Managing yourself
3 must-dos to successfully hand over your client portfolio to a team member
To make partner in your law firm, accountancy or consulting firm, you will have to win clients and grow your own book of business. You will also have to let go of clients. I know this sounds crazy but as you start winning bigger and better clients, at some point you will need to hand…
7 things that will slowly but steadily kill your career in professional services
An old post of Dr. Travis Bradberry popped up on my timeline recently. It was entitled 9 things which will kill your career. It is definitely worth a read in my opinion. It made me think about what will slowly but surely kill your career in professional services. How much of these will match up…
The 5Ps that always give time for business development
The dilemma: You have a full client workload and a daily chargeable time target of over 6 hours a day. However, you need to build your own client portfolio. That is a full job in its own right. You need some time-effective business development tips. So, is it any wonder that business development often gets…
How do people on partner track waste precious time and effort?
The fundamental difficulty involved in the transition to partner is how to still hit your numbers whilst carving out time to build your Business Case and Personal Case for partnership. In fact, for a few years you are going to have two jobs: The day job, and then the extra one to build your own…
3 easy but powerful delegation tips for senior associates
The challenge that any senior associate faces is how to still maintain their own figures AND make the time to build their own portfolio of clients. One of the best ways of starting to make some time for business development AND strengthening your personal case is delegation to more junior members of the team. The…
4 ways to get everything done before your holiday
It’s the day before most people break up for christmas. It’s also the day, where blood pressures and stress levels will rise because far too many of us have got to ‘clear our desks’ and get a piece of client work finished before going home tonight. If you are reading this blog post and thinking,…
Advancing Your Career | Blog | Building your client portfolio | client service | delegation | Managing others | Managing yourself | Personal Development | Personal efficiency | Planning & Goal Setting | Training & Development
Barriers to firm growth: keeping it all up in your head
For the 1st time ever I was heckled during a keynote speech. I know, it had to happen at some point… but despite my polite acknowledgement, it was a battle I couldn’t win at that point in time. So, what produced the emotion from my delegate? It was the suggestion that if firms are to increase…
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