8 Tips for Remote Career Development & Networking
Reading time: 3 minutes 8 Tips for Remote Career Development & Networking As hybrid workplaces with a mix of in-person and remote work become the rule, many remote or partially remote workers wonder how to keep their planned career trajectories on track. The good news is that the lessons learned during the fully remote phase of the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Why Role-Based Thinking Improves Your Practice and Your Teams (and moves beyond generation-based stereotyping)
Reading time: 4 minutes Why Role-Based Thinking Improves Your Practice and Your Teams (and moves beyond generation-based stereotyping) Do you know what they say about statements containing “always” and “never”? They’re always wrong and never right. In over a decade of coaching attorneys, I’ve been struck by how often I hear people say “always” or “never,” especially when discussing […]
A Secret to Building Future Firm Leaders: Peer Learning
Reading time: 4 minutes A Secret to Building Future Firm Leaders: Peer Learning Every law firm wants its associates to develop into successful partners. In fact, nurturing talented associates — and retaining them — is critical to your firm’s long-term success. But there’s a gulf between the skills associates use in their day-to-day work and the talents they must […]
Developing Your Future Leaders: Draw from Your Own Talent
Reading time: 2 minutes Developing Your Future Leaders: Draw from Your Own Talent Associates spend most of their time developing core legal skills, such as research, writing and analysis. This work is essential to the development of legal expertise, but such expertise alone isn’t sufficient to prepare an associate to become partner. For an associate to have true partnership […]
6 Ways to Treat Your Colleagues Like Your Best Clients — and 6 Reasons to Do It
Reading time: 6 minutes 6 Ways to Treat Your Colleagues Like Your Best Clients — and 6 Reasons to Do It I recently had coffee with a friend who was venting her frustration about working with another attorney I knew. I pointed out that this attorney is beloved and admired by his clients. My friend immediately shot back, “Oh, […]
8 Tips for Giving Feedback – and Getting Attorneys to Listen
Reading time: 5 minutes 8 Tips for Giving Feedback — and Getting Attorneys to Listen Senior attorneys and firm leaders increasingly find that giving feedback to junior attorneys is a core part of the job. Norms have changed over the decades, and more junior attorneys have come to expect candid, useful feedback — delivered in a respectful tone — […]
7 Keys to Effective Delegation
Reading time: 4 minutes 7 Keys to Effective Delegation Being a great leader requires the development and nurturing of many key character traits: self-awareness, open-mindedness and genuine connection, to name a few. But alongside those more abstract characteristics, there are certain practical skills that effective leaders must also cultivate in order to manage their teams successfully. In fact, in […]
Leadership Tips From 2,500+ Attorneys
Reading time: 3 minutes Leadership Tips From 2500+ Attorneys Over the past several years, we at Beard Strategies have been working on upward reviews for some of the nation’s most prestigious law firms. An upward review entails interviewing attorneys across a firm’s offices about the performance of those who supervise them, as well as soliciting their opinions on a […]