Hi I'm Heather Townsend. My weekly email tips will help you learn what you need to do to get noticed as "one to watch" in your firm (Hint, it's nothing to do with your billing). Join the 3000+ lawyers, accountants and consultants who are learning how to make partner. I am the author of 6 books including Poised For Partnership, How to make partner and still have a life, The Financial Times Guide To Business Networking and The Go-To Expert.
[H2MP] - when are you going to start thinking like a partner
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Hi Reader How are you this week? If you're keeping your head down and hope all your good work will get you noticed, it's time to start thinking about ways to get you noticed. The main thing you can do is to start thinking like a partner. If you’re thinking like a partner (which you should be), you should know that it is your responsibility to develop yourself. If you think it’s your firm’s responsibility to develop you, then you’re wrong. How can they know what you really want and need? If you want to know how to get put on the partner track, you need to start by not relying on your firm for your own development. If you do this, you’re putting yourself at risk by giving the firm control of whether you progress or not. To be sure that you are put on the partner track, start investing in yourself. Get in the driving seat and move your career forward yourself. Create a career plan and USE it to guide your personal development and to keep you on your professional path. Read more: How to get noticed so you are put on partner track If you have any questions about how I can help you to start thinking like a partner, then hit reply and let me know. Heather PS How ready are you to make partner? Take my Partnership Readiness Assessment this weekend - get started here. You can learn how to start thinking like a partner when you work through my self-paced Progress to Partner Academy Courses. Find out more here Heather Townsend Author (Poised for Partnership, the Financial Times Guide to Business Networking) Co-author How to Make Partner (and Still Have A Life) The leading global expert in what it takes to move from senior fee earner to partner, and when you get there, stay there. Founder of Progress to Partner Academy |
How to Make Partner from Heather Townsend
Hi I'm Heather Townsend. My weekly email tips will help you learn what you need to do to get noticed as "one to watch" in your firm (Hint, it's nothing to do with your billing). Join the 3000+ lawyers, accountants and consultants who are learning how to make partner. I am the author of 6 books including Poised For Partnership, How to make partner and still have a life, The Financial Times Guide To Business Networking and The Go-To Expert.
Hi Reader You hit your targets. Clients trust you. Yet other people are getting the partner-track conversation. Your partners aren't just looking at quality of your work. They're looking for business development, commercial thinking and leadership, and it's rare for firms to spell out what those look like in practice. Progress to Partner Academy shows you. (and you can use code OCTEN by the end of October for £100 off) It's built for lawyers, accountants and consultants, with 14 self-paced...
Hi Reader When so much else is competing your time, it's easy to think you'll think about business development activities later. Or when it's quieter. But the problem here is that then, days, weeks and months go by and you have done barely any business development activities. It's time to think about working consistently on these activities by creating a new habit. It doesn't have to take hours of your time. You can start with just ten minutes a day. Watch this short video (less than 2...
Have you had another week where you've been non-stop on client work? You've had no time to work on the things that are going to get you noticed for partner track? No time for networking or writing your LinkedIN post or your business development calls? Delegation is one of the Key Indicators that show you're ready to make partner. Why? Delegation is your ticket out of this trap. It frees you up from day-to-day client work so you can focus on partner type responsibilities. That's business...