Tips, ideas, techniques and general musings on the theme of how to build a high performing team
Making partner is more than just proving you can win work. You also need to prove that you can build and develop a team. As a ‘team leader’ you will be playing multiple different roles. In this article, based on an extract from Poised for Partnership, I look at the 5 different roles team leaders …
Motivating your team, particularly when the going is tough, is hard work. In this extract from an interview with Errol Williamson in Spring 2015, I talk about how to get your team onside and motivate them to higher levels of performance. EW: In your book ‘How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life’, Part …
How to construct a speech which inspires a team to improve its performance Read More »
When you get made up to partner, either through a promotion or a lateral move, it is not uncommon to inherit a new team, or a dysfunctional group of people who happen – more because of a HR structure chart – to belong to the same team. Your long term success as partner is driven …
Inheriting a new team – how to decide which team members to keep? Read More »
In last week’s blog post I talked about the need for partners to successfully manage and lead their team. However, what happens if you inherit a struggling team? After all, the professions are full of dysfunctional teams and non-team players. In this article, Jon Baker discusses how to fix the struggling team, once and for …
Most popular (and effective) tactics to fix a struggling team Read More »
No-one said that being in the professions would be easy! However, when you get to manager in a practice you get given the equivalent of a ‘hospital pass’. On the one hand you need to keep your clients and partner happy. Then you also need to keep your team happy and motivated, often by asking …
How to keep your team happy when they are stressed out with tough deadlines Read More »
