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Rewarding Time-Starved Team Members

Studies show that time-starved employees — including those in law firms — who have some control over their work schedules are more loyal, committed, innovative and satisfied on the job. If you’re looking for ways to motivate your staff, but don’t want to use financial incentives, try using time off as a reward.

Here are three tips to let time-starved team members know they are appreciated.

Leadership and Solitude – Is There A Connection?

If you want to be a successful leader of people, take time away from them. This can enhance your leadership potential.

How Marketing Your Practice Can Actually Make You Happier

There’s been a dramatic shift in how psychologists view happiness. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard and apply ourselves, success will follow. And once we are successful, we’ll be happy. Apparently we’ve had this equation backwards.

Are you working hard at marketing your firm?

Do You Have “Hurry Sickness?”

If you have what we call, “hurry sickness,” resolve to make this year the year in which you take control of your time.

Are Your Goals Out of Sight?

The New Year has dawned and you may have spent some time thinking about how you’d like to improve your business, and hopefully, your life, over the next year.

What Smart Marketers Know

As marketing advisors, one question we constantly grapple with is this: How can time-starved lawyers become efficient, but still effective marketers? Driven to distraction by constant interruptions, difficult staffing issues and demanding clients, most attorneys don’t take the time to do what it takes. Yet, many of our attorney clients are very good at marketing when placed in the right situations. It’s getting them there that’s the problem.

Work Smarter So You Can Enjoy The Holidays

Here’s a tip that can help you maximize your productivity in the face of the upcoming holidays – and help you to have a little time left to enjoy them. We call it the "Power Hour".

Are You a Situational Extrovert?

It’s useful to know that shyness is an adaptive reaction to social situations, such as holiday parties, in which we feel the risk of being judged harshly.

Two Tips to Manage Your Time More Profitably

Most of my clients who own their own firms, or are partners in small firms, experience difficulty in managing their firm finances because they don’t block time to attend to financial tasks. Their legal tasks get prime time in their calendar and financial oversight is relegated to whatever time is left over. To overcome this [...

Four Hot Tips for Using Facebook to Promote Your Firm

Facebook is one of many social channels. Where should you start? And how will you keep it fresh? These four tips help chart a course.