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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