Here’s how to progress your legal career this year: Take control of your time Receive feedback Build relationships with people different to you Increase your visibility Show them how valuable you are I promise you it’s that simple. Focus on just these 5 skills over the next 6 months and you will progress. Improving every one … Continued
When one partner’s mistreatment of you feels like a coordinated attack When you experience it like a full blown persecution When everywhere you turn feels like a dead end and everyone you speak to seems out to get you Don’t get out. Lean in. Lean in to what you can control. When you think “they’re … Continued
“I want to be a better manager and leader than the Partner who lead me” is not a way to lead. It’s a style of leadership which will leave you people pleasing and over sheltering your team in a way that serves neither them nor you. Take my client, F, Counsel in a law firm. … Continued
What’s holding you back isn’t the not knowing what to do It’s the resistance to doing it because of the emotions you’re afraid to feel. You’ve had the feedback. You know exactly what you need to do – 〽️Increase your visibility internally and externally 〽️Be more present with clients, front and centre on deals 〽️Speaking … Continued
Promotion isn’t everything. Sometimes, career progression is as simple and life changing as asking for help instead of doing it all yourself. So you stop feeling overwhelmed and stressed. So you stop wanting to quit. So work is more sustainable and promotion feels possible. The workload is heavy and you have a boss who leaves … Continued
You are a legal imposter. Your Imposter Syndrome is legit. Your Imposter Syndrome is meant to be there. It was never supposed to hold you back. Imposter Syndrome is there to elevate you. To distinguish you. It’s there to remind you how extraordinary you are, to showcase your value and to lead you to your … Continued
No one can throw you under the bus, except you. The bus is the bus. How you react when it comes, is up to you. When you tell yourself you’ve been thrown under it, the only perspective you have is from being face down in the dirt and feeling trampled over. Seeing everything that happens … Continued
Nothing’s gone wrong. It is just taking longer than you expected. To earn their trust. To win their support. To get the recognition you deserve. It IS happening. Just not the way you thought it would. Or believed it should. When you have a bad week (or couple of weeks…) your brain will tell you … Continued
There’s no such thing as a difficult past. There’s only the story you choose to tell about it. Keep telling the story of struggle and all the things that were hard or unfair and that’s the story you’ll keep living. It’s the future you’ll keep creating. You think there’s only one truth about what happened … Continued
You can’t short cut your way to confidence. When you fake it ‘til you make it, all you’re doing is building confidence in someone you’re not. This may work for a while. But when the conditions change or the task is different, you’re right back where you started: hiding behind your work. Afraid to be … Continued
