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Annual performance reviews are out, and daily feedback is in. With a new generation of leaders shaping how employee performance evaluations are conducted, the Wall Street Journal recently looked at companies that are replacing annual reviews with real-time assessments. The idea is to help employees be more productive by giving them opportunities to make...
There may not be a universal threshold for how many meetings is too many, but meeting overload is real. And meeting fatigue makes it tough — if not impossible — to get work done. It’s a drag on your mental health and on law firm productivity.
Excessive and ineffective meetings...
Expecting law firm leaders to demonstrate a strong “executive presence” isn’t new. What’s changing is the definition of executive presence — and the skills you need to demonstrate it.
Traditionally, leaders who exhibited executive presence were those with the hard-to-define quality of “gravitas.” (In practice, this word often was synonymous with “male.”) Solid communication skills as well as looking and dressing the...
How will your firm celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month in June? The history of the struggle for LGBTQ+ liberation is interwoven with the practice of law, and the greatest moments of progress throughout the past century have come as a result of advocacy both within and outside the legal system. Take a moment to revisit:
This should not be a radical statement, but in many corners of the legal industry, it still is. It seems obvious that women and men should share responsibility for creating more inclusive workplaces. Yet most gender-inclusion programs still focus on how women should navigate the workplace differently to overcome obstacles they face due to sexism. Gender bias may be tougher to overcome in the legal profession than in other industries. The law firm model “views women as inherently...