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,…

Support Team – The people you need around you to make it to partner
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Support Team – The people you need around you to make it to partner

ByClaire Meddings

Six in ten professionals actively pursuing partnership are doing so without the active backing of the key people who could open doors for them. They are relying on their work to speak for itself. On partner track, that is rarely enough. This episode covers the fourth of the 12 key indicators of partnership readiness: Support…

Plan – Why good intentions will not get you to partner
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Plan – Why good intentions will not get you to partner

ByClaire Meddings

Only 31% of professionals pursuing partnership have a career plan that is genuinely guiding their progression. Nearly seven in ten are navigating one of the most important career transitions of their lives on good intentions alone, and then wondering why six months have gone by and nothing has moved. This episode covers the third of…

Direction – The question no one asks before going for partner
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Direction – The question no one asks before going for partner

ByClaire Meddings

Only 44% of professionals pursuing partnership have truly considered whether the partner role is right for them and made an informed decision about it. More than half are moving towards one of the biggest career commitments of their lives without ever properly asking: is this what I actually want? This episode covers the second of…

Mindset – Why the Most Brilliant People in the Room Don’t Always Make Partner
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Mindset – Why the Most Brilliant People in the Room Don’t Always Make Partner

ByClaire Meddings

The most technically brilliant professionals don’t always make partner. This episode explores why, through the lens of the first, and most important, of the 12 key indicators of partnership readiness: Mindset. Using the real example of a lawyer with 98.5% utilisation who was asked to wait another year, this episode unpacks the fundamental difference that…

How to turn tough feedback into your best career asset
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How to turn tough feedback into your best career asset

ByClaire Meddings

Are you secretly dreading your next piece of feedback? Do you find yourself going into defence mode the moment someone tells you something you don’t want to hear? You’re not alone. And it’s not a character flaw. Your brain is literally wired to treat negative feedback as a threat, triggering a fight-or-flight response that makes…

How to restart your BD when you’ve stopped for a while
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How to restart your BD when you’ve stopped for a while

ByClaire Meddings

Have you ever let your business development slip. And then found yourself paralysed about picking it back up again? It happens to all of us. Life gets in the way. A week turns into a month. And suddenly you’re not just behind on your BD activities; you’re dealing with the added weight of embarrassment, procrastination,…

Inheriting a Partner’s Portfolio: Why It’s Harder Than It Looks
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Inheriting a Partner’s Portfolio: Why It’s Harder Than It Looks

ByClaire Meddings

If a partner in your firm is retiring and you’re being lined up to take over their portfolio, it can feel like the route to partnership is clear. The clients are there. The revenue is there. All you have to do is step in. But brokers who sell books of business factor in at least…

The Seven Mistakes That Will Sink Your Business Case
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The Seven Mistakes That Will Sink Your Business Case

ByClaire Meddings

When my team reviews a client’s Business Case for the first time, we almost always find at least one of the same mistakes. Some are fixable with a few hours of rewriting. Others can’t be fixed in the document at all because they’re not document problems. They’re practice problems. In this episode, we go through…

The Profit Margin Episode: Why Growing Your Practice Isn’t Just About Winning More Work
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The Profit Margin Episode: Why Growing Your Practice Isn’t Just About Winning More Work

ByClaire Meddings

Most Business Cases are built around one thing: winning more clients. But your partners aren’t just looking at your revenue ambitions. They’re looking at whether you think commercially; whether you understand margin, efficiency, and what it takes to build something sustainable. I’m Heather Townsend, author of Poised for Partnership and co-author of How to Make Partner & Still Have…

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