Posts tagged Trusted Advisor
Trust Is Borrowed Before It’s Earned: What Every Early Career Professional Should Know

Everyone wants to be trusted, yet trustworthiness is hard to pin down. Early in your career, most of your trust is borrowed from your qualifications, your firm and the people who vouch for you. Here is how that works, and four habits that build a record of your own.

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Partners Behaving Badly: A Working List of Referral Sins

Internal referrals are the cheapest growth your firm will ever buy, and the easiest to lose. When a colleague refers you work they lend you their standing with someone they value, so they weigh up rather more than whether you're any good at the job. Here are 8 of the questions on their mind…

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Leadership Foundations: Essential Mindset Shifts For Lawyers

Do lawyers make great leaders? Professor Michele DeStefano believes they can—but it takes more than technical skill to earn true followership. Here’s her Three Rules of Engagement to help you make the shift from subject matter expert to a trusted adviser and leader…

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