Creating your daily business development habit – The missing ingredient stopping many professionals from making partner
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Creating your daily business development habit – The missing ingredient stopping many professionals from making partner

ByClaire Meddings

Only 20% of professionals on the partnership track do something every day to implement their Business Development Plan. This episode is about how to become one of them — not through willpower, but through habit. Using real examples from Poised for Partnership, this episode covers why business development gets deprioritised even by talented, motivated professionals,…

a luminescent image of the head and brain to represent how to embrace change in the workplace
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3 proven ways to hack your brain to embrace change

ByHeather Townsend

Want to know how to embrace change in the workplace? Embracing change is one of the most important skills to have in this fast-paced, rapidly changing world. It’s not easy though, as we all like to do things our own way and resist outside influence or advice from others. As you can imagine, this is…

three actors on stage to represent how to act like a partner
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How to act, think and feel like a partner: 10 ways to strengthen your personal case for partnership

ByHeather Townsend

You may be crushing it as a senior fee earner, but making partner is not about just being a strong performing senior associate, manager or director. Your partners want to see you demonstrate that you are already working at the level expected of a partner at your firm! To be considered for partnership when the…

a girl at a crossroads to symbolise how to encourage employees to take initiative
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5 foolproof ways to get your staff to take initiative (and why they won’t take it in the first place)

ByHeather Townsend

“Why won’t my staff take initiative?” , “why do they always come to me with any little problem?” , “why do I have to spoon feed my staff?”  How can you encourage your team members or employees to take initiative and why won’t they do it in the first place? I’m Heather Townsend, author of…

Career Clinic: What is meant by “leadership”?
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Career Clinic: What is meant by “leadership”?

ByHeather Townsend

This was an interesting question which dropped into my inbox. First let me give you the back story. The question came from a highly senior technical specialist who had been head-hunted from a small firm, for a senior role in a top 5 firm. The technical specialist, let’s call them Sheila, was being promised partnership…

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