Seven Great Ideas for a Partner Conference or Retreat
It is now a number of decades (don’t ask how many!) since I first attended a law firm partner retreat as a newly minted partner. Since that time, I have facilitated, led or spoken at many professional service firm retreats and conferences all over the world. They seem to divide into seven basic areas of focus, although of course there may be more areas to consider or variations on the same theme.
Why is Law Firm Strategy So Hard?
How can law firms pick the right spots? How can they transform their business model and service delivery in intelligent ways without getting out over their skis?
Integrating Strategic Planning and Strategy Execution
Professional service firms are typically littered with uncompleted strategic projects, failed initiatives and strategic plans that have remained in a drawer (or a computer file) almost as soon as written. It has often been observed that professionals are better at ideas and planning than in putting those plans into reality by means of effective implementation.
Integration Or Disintegration, That Is The Question
Firms can easily lose the focus on integration, an intangible asset, while they are busy dealing with the tangible issues of day to day operations, developing business, serving clients and controlling finances. It is better to manage integration than recover from disintegration.
Planning for Recovery
Originally designed for the Law Society of England and Wales, but relevant to all law firms globally, Edge International Principal Nick Jarrett-Kerr has created a series of four webinars on the topic of Planning for Recovery. Each webinar lasts about twenty minutes and is available free of charge.
Planning for Recovery: Seven Strategies for Opportunistic Law Firms
Adverse conditions can provide opportunities for firms to dramatically enhance their competitive position in a relatively short period of time.
Gain Competitive Advantage by Implementing a Broader Approach
Four recommended areas of focus for firms undertaking a broader approach to practice – and how they will help improve your competitive edge.
Clients and Partners – Social Distancing and the Circle of Trust
By implementing three tools, we can gain (or regain) close and more trusting relationships with both colleagues and clients – despite remote working.
Why Taking a Broad Approach Drives Optimal Performance
To maximize the “range” of a law firm, diversity – in the broadest sense of the word – must be a key driver in the way the organization is managed.
Sight-Checking your 2020 Strategy
When I look at the strategic documents of law firms, I often see lack of clarity; it often seems to me that the plans form a patchwork quilt made up of many separate plans and business recipes of different practice groups – and can sometimes be as many as there are partners in the firm. […]