Relationship Building, Part 3: Time Considerations
Attorneys are very busy people, often logging their time in six-minute increments. Where do they 'find' the time to get and stay in touch with everyone AND have the much-needed downtime?
Relationship Building, Part 2: Check Motivations
Relationships only happen when we are committed to make them a priority, and that takes time and a commitment to 'water' the relationship seeds we sow.
Relationship Building: Staying in Touch
Some things appear to be so simple that we assume (dangerously) that everyone 'gets it.'
Tips for How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course, Part 3
Along the way to charting your own course, below are critical habits to be implemented as you stay focused on growing a fulfilling and prosperous career.
Tips for How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course
Though the road may be paved with bumps and hiccups, women lawyers can absolutely chart their course, a different course by implementing proven strategies to create the career of their dreams. Below are critical habits along that path to a fulfilling and prosperous career.
Tips for How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course
For all the chatter, studies, and disheartening stats we read on where Women in the Law rank in the legal services sector, I say 'phooey'. Yes, the numbers stink; yes, there are real barriers, discrimination, disappointing treatment from law firm leadership, but hey, we are women 'with a capitol W' as the phrase goes.
Different Faces of Follow Up
Though follow up can take many different approaches, the overall non-negotiable component involves any action step which provokes the other party (existing client, prospect, etc.) to want to continue contact with you.
Extend Beyond Showing Up
One of the interminable bumps lawyers experience in their efforts to cultivate new clients and business is in following up with their new contacts, growing network and even their best clients. We examine how to introduce and tweak a follow-up plan. Read on to see what I mean.
Are You Falling Down on Following Up?
Of all the marketing initiatives that are critical for lawyers to commit to, the most basic and seemingly obvious is the 'sin' of omission - - the failure to follow up.
Time to Tweak (not Twerk)
Many lawyers generally know what they need to do to grow their practice (foster business relationships) but they need to tweak the execution and the follow up steps which are imperative to growing a client roster.
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