Leadership Retreat Planning: Five Steps to Boost Success
January 19, 2022
January is the month of Janus, the Roman god of new beginnings, gates, and transitions. If there were ever a month to plan a leadership retreat aimed at refreshing your firm, then, this is it. Executive team building retreats are like nitrous oxide for an engine: a power boost if used properly, and a liability if not. Ensure yours is the former instead of the latter by taking the following five steps.
Employee Engagement Strategies for Law Firms in 2022
January 5, 2022
January is a month of new beginnings. Indeed, the very word “January” derives from the Latin Januarius mensis meaning ‘month of Janus,’ the Roman god of doors, transitions, and openings. As you start in on 2022, this is the time to assess what’s been going well, what could be going better, and how your firm can best grow in the new year.
Hiring Your Clone: Smart Move or Big Mistake?
December 21, 2021
If there were any lingering doubts about the role artificial intelligence (AI) is set to play in our futures, Facebook’s abrupt rebranding as “Meta” and subsequent promotion of the “metaverse” put them to rest. Anybody who’s been paying attention knows that AI is poised to revolutionize the world in the same way the internet did decades ago. Presumably, this means that soon you’ll be able to hire a literal clone of yourself to handle that never-shrinking backlog of undone work.
Law Firm Resolutions to Boost Success in the New Year
December 16, 2021
List-making is as much a part of the holidays as mistletoe or mandarins. People everywhere are busy making lists of gifts, lists of New Year’s resolutions, and lists of who’s been naughty and who’s been nice…so why not also make a list of all things your firm needs to do to level up in 2022? After all, the past year has not been easy on small firms, and the only way to avoid a repeat is to plan for strategic change.
Work-Life Balance Tips for Legal Professionals Today
December 9, 2021
If you’re a parent and have ever hosted a sleepover, you’re familiar with the childish competition to see who can stay up the latest. And if you were ever a teenager, you know about the myriad of dumb challenges teenagers use to size each other up. As adults, you’d think we’d have grown out of such juvenile behavior, and yet the number of professionals who measure their worth—and that of others—based on how busy they are says otherwise. But here’s the thing: being “too busy” is neither respectable, nor healthy. Work life balance, on the other hand, is both—and top talent knows this.
Employee Engagement Strategies to Retain Talent
November 24, 2021
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously stated that the only constant in life is change. This applies as much to the world of business as to anything else and one of the main changes businesses owners face is an evolution in the fundamental concepts that keep their enterprise ticking. Communication does not mean the same thing it did thirty years ago. Hiring today has nothing to do with bygone times when a person stayed with a company for life. Productivity is in flux as individual cultures grapple with new global norms. The most recent change of this sort involves employee engagement, which in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic does not mean what it used to.