by Molly McGrath | Jan 21, 2020 | Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Team Empowerment, Team Training
There’s not an employer out there who doesn’t dream of a team that shows up every day motivated to drive the company forward. Imagine: employees arrive brimming with ideas about how goals might be better met and services improved. Imagine: those same employees never...
by Molly McGrath | Jan 8, 2020 | Communication, Decreasing Stress, Hiring & Firing, Increasing Business, Leadership, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Personal Growth, Systems, Team Empowerment, Team Training
We’ve all said it at one point or another: I’m just so burnt out. It’s not just us—workplace related burnout is so commonplace that the World Health Organization (WHO) classifies it as a syndrome, and Harvard Business School estimates that it is responsible for...
by Molly McGrath | Dec 17, 2019 | Hiring, Leadership, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Team Empowerment, Team Training
There are few indisputable truths in life and, while the following isn’t one, it’s about as close as you’ll get: successful people take risks. Think about it. Name three people whose success you admire. Ellen DeGeneres? College dropout turned stand-up comedian—a.k.a....
by Molly McGrath | Dec 8, 2019 | Increasing Business, Leadership, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Systems
No one likes to feel like they’re second fiddle…especially at the thing they spend most of their time doing: work. You might think you can avoid the possibility of making your employees feel this way by forbidding them from talking about their salary…but, well, first,...
by Molly McGrath | Nov 9, 2019 | Increasing Business, Leadership, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Systems
Setting out on your own, no matter the endeavor, is scary. After all, the flip side of freedom is responsibility, and when you alone carry the burden, any shortcomings are yours alone to manage. This is why, in our everyday lives, we seek out gym buddies and running...
by Molly McGrath | Nov 4, 2019 | Hiring, Hiring & Firing, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development
Almost every time we send a Big Law resume to a small firm looking to hire, we get the same bewildered responses: We can’t compete with that salary. They have high billable hour requirements. They’re worked to the bone—they don’t care about the things our firm can...
