Learning is a skill like any other. The more effective you are at identifying gaps in your knowledge and bridging those gaps by consuming and making sense of useful information, the more effective you will be as a lawyer. In the following article, I discuss some of the best ways to get smarter in order to push yourself to higher levels of performance.
Always Be Learning: Investing in Yourself is the Best Investment You’ll Ever Make
Learning is a skill like any other. The more effective you are at identifying gaps in your knowledge and bridging those gaps by consuming and making sense of useful information, the more effective you will be as a lawyer. In the following article, I discuss some of the best ways to get smarter in order to push yourself to higher levels of performance.
Scale: The Three-Step Formula to Grow a $1 Million+ Legal Practice
Are you willing to settle for the same results year after year because you never built something that could operate independent of your time and effort? If you want to grow a significant legal practice, you must start thinking of yourself as a CEO who can scale. Growing your practice beyond yourself is not easy. But there is a way to push past your own limitations to far greater levels of success. Here are three fundamental steps to achieving scale.
How (and When) to Measure Legal Marketing Return on Investment
As we enter fourth quarter, it is more critical than ever to understand and to be able to articulate to firm leadership what the return on any proposed investment might be, and what the time horizon is for the realization of that return. In the following article, Tom Nixon discusses two important curves that are vital to not only predicting future forecasts, but also to illustrate and validate the worthiness of the endeavor.
Three New LinkedIn Features to Check Out This Fall
How to Grow an Audience for a Legal Podcast
How to Stay Productive While Working From Home
Despite all the challenges, most lawyers seem to be managing the shift to remote work fairly well. But there’s always room for more and better productivity. From creating a better to-do list to working in sprints, we provide some tactics that are most relevant to remaining effective and productive while working from home.
Four Ways to Take Your Thought Leadership Marketing to the Next Level
As with any area of professional development you want to improve, creating high-impact content requires thinking strategically, developing new skills, and making it a consistent practice. You can’t keep doing the same things and expect different results. If you want to take your results to the next level, you need to up your game. Here are four ways to take your thought leadership to the next level.
Settling In and Looking Out
Labor Day is behind us, marking the unofficial end of summer. As we approach Q4 2020, there is no better time to reassess where this past year has taken you, and to be more purposeful about how you finish the year—and perhaps look ahead to 2021 with a clearer picture of what you want the future to look like.
Coaching Helps Lawyers Move to Higher Levels of Performance
I’m firmly of the opinion that most lawyers would benefit from business coaching. That probably sounds self serving since I’m a coach myself, but in sharing this opinion I’m drawing mostly on my experience as a “coachee” while running my own small law firm in 2010. For me, having the opportunity to consistently work with someone who held me accountable to the goals I set for myself was critical to my success.