Is your team running and hiding?
Communication
March 21, 2010
Our recent, ongoing discussion has been about the blessing and curse of being a leader. We’ve discussed how necessary leadership is to any growing company and how it can be overwhelming for a leader to balance the needs of their team with their own. We’ve shared how the strategy of “Leading by Example” can provide […]
Destined to Repeat the Same Mistakes?
Communication
March 11, 2010
In our last blog, we talked about the blessing and curse of being a leader. We discussed how necessary leadership is to any growing company, and how it can be overwhelming for a leader to balance the needs of their team and their own. Let us share the first of several simple strategies to provide […]
Is Your Team is Wrought with Gossip, Cattiness and Blame?
Communication
February 28, 2010
Nurturing and growing your team is a never-ending process. And if it does end, you’re in trouble, because it means that your team is no longer growing. That’s the beginning of stagnation. Like sitting water, your team doesn’t just stop growing and stay in place; they start to rot and eat away at all the […]
You won’t believe what your receptionist just did to your biggest client
Communication
February 18, 2010
You are waiting on a return call from a $10M client and your receptionist sticks them into voicemail. Or your urgent FedEx package gets put in your Inbox where you don’t notice it until the next day. How many times has something like this happened? Why is it seemingly so difficult to have consistency and […]
The Eighth Day of Christmas – Engage your clients in your good works
Increasing Business
December 20, 2009
Many of us make annual contributions from our businesses at the end of the year to charities we support. Our Eighth Day of Christmas idea is to engage your clients to participate in this cause that is important to you, not as a donor, but by helping you choose. This idea is something attorney George […]
The Ninth Day of Christmas – Crazy Card Clean Up
Communication
December 18, 2009
Card clean up It’s common for many law offices to send out Holiday cards. It’s even more common for law firms to scramble every year to get together their mailing list, order their cards and get them out on time. How it is that Christmas sneaks up on us each year and catches us unprepared, wherein […]
