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Before the Diary Fills Again- Protect ninety minutes this August. Not for more work. For what you want

Upcoming Event – Before the Diary Fills Again. Ninety minutes 𝓃𝑜𝓉 about more work. August is often one of the few times the diary eases, even if only slightly. There […]Continue reading

Breaking the cycle of reactiveness and complete business priorities

Do you keep promising yourself this week will be different? Yet come Friday, you have still not completed the tasks you wanted to prioritise? It is easy to spend an […]Continue reading

How to stop micro-managing

Why do we micro-manage (even when we know it is unhelpful) and what can be done about it? Being micromanaged can cause a great deal of stress. Likewise, those who […]Continue reading

Imposter Syndrome in Lawyers: How to Recognise It and Overcome It

Imposter Syndrome in Lawyers: How to Recognise It and Overcome It With high performers comes a greater impact of perfectionism, procrastination, people pleasing, and imposter phenomenon. As we progress with […]Continue reading

Succession planning for better law firms now

With so many challenges and calls on our time, how can we streamline and reduce irritations in our firm? Especially for succession planning. We all have competing demands on our […]Continue reading

10 Time Tips For Daily Productivity At Work

10 Time Tips For Daily Productivity At Work Are you regularly working long hours? Feeling overwhelmed? Never enough time? If you have a reasonable(ish) workload, but, find that your productivity […]Continue reading

Can we change the way we respond?

Can we change the way we respond? Are we response-able? Do you find the your knee-jerk responses are getting in the way of how you want to be? Here is […]Continue reading

Have you set your festive boundaries?

Have you set your boundaries for the holidays? Do you often return to work in the New Year, feeling frustrated, irritable, and as if you need a break? Do you […]Continue reading

Letting others interrupt our plans for growth

Why do we let others interrupt our plans for personal or firm growth? Have you ever wanted to make a change for yourself or your firm, but kept searching online, […]Continue reading

Better Weeks For Law Firm Owners & Partners

Better weeks for law firm owners, sole practitioners & partners Are you busy but unproductive? Is your firm as profitable as you want? Did you set up your firm, in […]Continue reading

Time Challenge To Take Control

Are you ready to understand your time challenges and take control? Want to get to grips with your time? Be more productive? Live a more balanced life?   With many […]Continue reading

How time blocking and batching helps brain power

Why does time blocking and batching help with brain power, and save us time in unexpected ways? Fee-earners, and law firm owners, can understandably be resistant to the idea of time […]Continue reading

Easier Performance Conversations For Legal Leaders

Do you find yourself avoiding performance conversations? Do you struggle to make the day-to-day supervision and performance conversations effective, in that you feel you keep circling back to the same […]Continue reading

How Lululemon (a brand) Can Guide Our Client Service

Want to add more to your client experience? (And what has that to do with wanting to be like a yoga/fitness clothing store?) Like you, at some point in your life, I was […]Continue reading

Easy Summer Business Planning for Law Firm Owners

Ready to think about the rest of the year, with ease and impact? Join us for some easy business planning to get you set up for the rest of the […]Continue reading

Top 10 Tips for Productive Fee Earners

Trying to be productive, when balancing client work with everything else (such as going home at a sensible hour), can be a real challenge for fee-earners! Here are 10 Tips […]Continue reading

Five great reasons to get a coach

Have you wanted to achieve a goal, to stop putting up with something in your life, or to stop worrying about another year passing and looking back with regrets? If so, […]Continue reading

Continuing Competence, Coaching & Solicitors

Coaching For Solicitors and Law Firms  – Continuing Competence Continuing competence The legal profession has for some time been moving away from pure legal knowledge training and looking at wider […]Continue reading

Perfectionist Coaching Case Study

Perfectionist  Coaching Case Study When we cannot spot why a skill is not being changed. A ‘perfectionist’ case study.   I worked with a senior manager who was receiving negative […]Continue reading

Self-Sabotage vs Procrastination

Self-Sabotage vs Procrastination Following on from the last article on procrastination. A question came up on the distinction between procrastination and self-sabotage. Take a look below as to how self-sabotage […]Continue reading

What Is Procrastination and How Do We Tackle It?

Procrastination is not laziness.  So, what is procrastination and how do we tackle it? Every week, this is the week I will get it done! Then procrastination happens. When we […]Continue reading

10-Minute Tools for Calm, Conviction, Composure for Lawyers

Boost your calm, confidence, and conviction A boost for calm, composure, and conviction – 10 minutes (approx) on a Tuesday morning. Week One – release and lessen anxious or other […]Continue reading

Stress & Wellbeing for Lawyers Declining

Stress & Wellbeing for Lawyers is on the decline which probably comes as no surprise to most. The latest statistics from The Law Society show: 1. an increase of 30% […]Continue reading

3 Quick Tips For Better Billing For Law Firms

Three Tips for Better Billing Looking to improve your firm’s time recording & billing? Here are 3 quick steps to make a change: 1. Tech Challenge – Everyone learns at […]Continue reading

Traffic Lights & Successful Thinking

Traffic Lights & Successful Thinking Do you find yourself saying yes to something you wish you hadn’t? Doing something that wasn’t helpful?  Or perhaps find yourself in the company of […]Continue reading

Changing your own working hours? Look to the future.

Changing your own working hours? Consider this. When trying to create a change, such as to the hours we work, we often try to do it instantly, when it seems […]Continue reading

Goals that keep getting stuck & how to complete them

Are your goals/tasks stuck, stopped, or on repeat with stopping and starting? Do you have a goal you aren’t getting very far with? When coaching (clients, or self-coaching) to reach […]Continue reading

Does taking time off cause you to worry?

Does taking time off from your law firm cause you to worry? Do you find it difficult, or start to feel anxious, when taking time off? Which worry resonates the […]Continue reading

Why are items being left (by you) where you don’t want them?

Why are items being left (by you) where you don’t want them? Do you notice some items are not being put away, despite best intentions? And despite them having a […]Continue reading

Are you genuinely annoyed?

Are you genuinely annoyed? Yes of course I am!⁣ ⁣ Truly? ⁣ ⁣ It has been interesting to note, how I have developed a habit of being irritated/annoyed, about certain […]Continue reading

Does your law firm have a coaching culture?

Singapore Law Society Training – Does your law firm have a coaching culture? Amidst a rapidly evolving legal landscape that brings with it various internal and external challenges and demands, […]Continue reading

A new idea does not make it urgent!

Is your new urgent, genuinely urgent (& important)? Should it be everyone else’s new urgent? A new marketing initiative or you’ve finally got around to dealing with the ‘appraisals’ process. […]Continue reading

Legal Leaders Breakfast – September 2021

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Gin &Profit for Partners & their Law Firms

Gin &Profit for Partners & their Law Firms! Want to know how to increase your firm’s profits by focusing on external referrals, cross-selling, and price hygiene in a different way?  If […]Continue reading

The Art Of Delegation – Top Tips to Make It Work

The Art of Delegation At our recent Leadership Breakfast, we had our guest speakers Rebecca Newenham business owner of the franchise ‘Get Ahead’, and Joanne McGowan, also from ‘Get Ahead’ […]Continue reading

Legal Leaders Breakfast – July 2021

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Legal Leaders Breakfast – April 2021

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Leadership Breakfast – June 2021

The Art of Delegation Get in touch to join us at our next free & online Talks & Tipples leadership breakfast for managers & business owners, interested in leadership growth, business […]Continue reading

If anger doesn’t create change, what does?

Is there a better way to create change when we are angry? Are you really angry with someone, for not being who you want them to be? For not meeting […]Continue reading

Eat that frog & other ways to get stuff done!

Eat That Frog!  Do you have a task, with a longer deadline (as opposed to one without any set deadlines), that you just don’t want to do? Last year I […]Continue reading

Time to stop procrastinating?

Procrastination can get in our way. Indeed, a lot of the work I do helps business owners, firm owners, and partners, complete the business development tasks they keep meaning to […]Continue reading

Top Tips To Keep Your Marketing In-House

Marketing 101 – What to Keep In-House (and do it well) and What to Outsource Want to know what marketing to keep in-house, or what to outsource? What you can use […]Continue reading

Leadership Breakfast – Guildford March 2021

Marketing- what do we keep in-house & what could we outsource?   Get in touch to join us at our next Talks & Tipples leadership breakfast for managers & business […]Continue reading

3 Reasons Solicitors Won’t Cross Sell

3 Reasons Solicitors Won’t Cross Sell We know that cross-selling is an easier, and far more cost effective way, to generate work than cold selling. The firm has taken time […]Continue reading

Leadership Breakfast – Guildford February 2021

Meditation for busy people! Since our wellbeing is possibly more important than ever (not least as so many feel they have hit a bit of a wall this last week […]Continue reading

Leadership Breakfast – Guildford January 2021

Join us for our first Leadership Breakfast – Easy Communication! With so many tools out there, designed to help us understand ourselves, and each other better. And, in turn, help […]Continue reading

What are the differences between resilience, adaptation, and antifragility – Does it matter?

What are the differences between resilience, adaptation, and antifragility, and why does it matter? At a recent EMCC workshop, Ruth Simpson, a fellow executive coach, and researcher in resilience and […]Continue reading

Leadership Breakfast – Guildford December 2020

For our final leadership breakfast in 2020 we have a MAGIC SHOW! For our Christmas Special we are joined by Ricky Locke a professional magician of The Magic Circle, and […]Continue reading

Transform Your Meetings – Upcoming Training

Transform Your Meetings (shouldn’t they be easier?) We know the complaints about meetings, too many, too boring, poor outcomes, people talking over each other. What if we could start over? […]Continue reading

Leadership Breakfast – Guildford November 2020

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