How do people on partner track waste precious time and effort?
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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…

How to safely demonstrate in your appraisal that you are ready for partnership
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How to safely demonstrate in your appraisal that you are ready for partnership

Sometimes, the only opportunity you have to talk formally about your career ambitions is in your annual appraisal. This is a great opportunity to demonstrate your readiness for partner. However, many senior associates and directors blow this opportunity by not preparing properly for this very important conversation. In this article I will share with you…

a man pulling at his shirt collar to represent how to deal with stress in the workplace
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5 secrets to confidently and successfully give clients bad news

How to give clients bad news As a professional advisor, e.g an accountant, lawyer, or consultant, there are always going to be times when you need to give a client some bad news. The challenge is always how to deliver the news in a way which makes you feel confident that you can cope with…

5 encouraging signs that your business development efforts and marketing plan are working
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5 encouraging signs that your business development efforts and marketing plan are working

When you start a marketing plan, clients don’t normally fall out of thin air. Nor will every meeting instantly turn into a golden relationship. When accountants or lawyers are marketing, it takes time to build your brand, form strong introducer relationships, and generate awareness within the internal and external marketplaces. The early days of marketing…

How to sell litigation and other ‘distressed services’
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How to sell litigation and other ‘distressed services’

Litigation is impossible to sell. After all you can’t just pick up a phone and cold call a prospect to see if they have a dispute and need your services. Nor do most rational people want to be a situation where they are in a dispute with someone. So therefore, how DO you sell your…

Find out how this dispute between business partners ended

Find out how this dispute between business partners ended

  Yes, that’s what you read! It’s out there as I write about my long suffering business partner. Why? Because Heather’s a great coach. What is a great coach, what makes business coaching so valuable and why was I in that position? The back story Sometimes we find ourselves asking questions, not doing all the…

7 probable reasons why your potential client is not returning your call
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7 probable reasons why your potential client is not returning your call

It was all going so well. In fact, as it turned out too well… All I needed to do was agree dates with the client for a series of workshops worth nearly £10k to us. That should be the easy part? Right? Wrong! I delegated the job of agreeing dates to my chief organiser, Lisa….

How my recent cycling trip can make it easier for you to build your own practice
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How my recent cycling trip can make it easier for you to build your own practice

In this short article I explain how you can make the seemingly impossible task of building a partner-sized client portfolio more manageable. It was the final stretch at the end of an exhausting bike ride. I’d already clocked up 10 miles of hilly off-road riding.  Before I could make it back home, I knew I…

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