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What does it mean to be made a partner? Is partnership right for you?
In this video, we explore what does it mean to be made partner and, ultimately, if partnership is right for you. Check it out to understand the importance of exploring these crucial questions and setting yourself with the right mindset for success. ****************************** To buy your copy of the 3rd edition of How To Make…
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The 4 Best Business Networking Books for Lawyers and Accountants
Both networking and self-improvement are crucial to successful business development, but with so many sources of information and so little time, many business owners don’t know where to start. Do you need help with networking? Perhaps you’re an introvert and you tend to avoid it or you’re a social butterfly and you want to know…
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2 essential ways that attorneys can avoid burnout from the stress of practising law
Did you know that lawyers suffer from depression at a rate 3.6 times higher than that of other professions? It’s true. Practising law is stressful and demanding and the constant high pressure to improve with the same resources day after day leads a lot to attorney burnout. Here are 2 essential ways that attorneys can…
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Team away days… Are they just a waste of time and money?
Very often partners take their team out of work for the day (or half-day), in the hope that it will be a magic bullet that will generate new life into the team and be an overall beneficial experience. What many find, however, is that it didn’t work and they wasted money including a whole day…
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7 tips to build a team you can rely on and trust
Imagine this scenario – you have just won a juicy piece of work that will help accelerate you along the partnership track. Great news! What’s not so great, however, is that you don’t have a team of people who you can reliably delegate down to and trust that they will deliver to the required standard…
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6 clues that you are letting your team members get away with poor performance
Want to improve team performance, but don’t know where to start? From experience, it might be you who is hindering growth. Like many other talented professionals who shy away from having difficult conversations, you may be accepting substandard performance from the members of your team as a result. If you are going to make it…
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Top 6 busy season survival techniques from Big 4 veterans
The Big 4 busy season can break even the strongest of accountants no matter how experienced you are at them. So how is it done? How do the veterans keep surviving them only to fight another year? We asked them just that and here they are – the top 6 survival techniques straight from the…
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The 3 main types of Partner in a Big 4, Magic Circle or Mid-Tier firm
When you play to your strengths you become much more successful. Typically there are three different types of partner. When you know your key strengths you can work towards becoming the right type of partner for your talents and strengths. In this blog post Heather Townsend shares an exclusive extract from the 2nd edition of…
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What does it really mean to make partner? You may be surprised!
Ask any fresh-faced graduate in a professional services firm, (all the way up to Big 4) whether they want to make partner and I’m sure you’ll hear a resounding “YES.” Almost all of them will say yes, unequivocally. I mean, who doesn’t want the status, glory and rewards of partnership? Ask them “what does it…
