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Managing Your Leadership Career in Law : A Partner's Guide / Nigel Spencer and Mike Mister.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spencer, Nigel (Executive coach), author.
- Mister, Mike, author.
- Series:
- Elgar Guides to Professional Skills for Lawyers Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Career development.
- Law--Vocational guidance.
- Law.
- Law offices.
- Leadership.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, England : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2024]
- Summary:
- "In this practical and insightful book, Dr Nigel Spencer and Mike Mister provide expert guidance to both aspiring and established law firm leaders, to help them to successfully navigate the specific leadership challenges partners face in private practice environments. Offering a unique practitioner perspective, they cover what partners need to know, do, and what skills they need to develop, at each step of their leadership journey. Key features: Engaging and accessible writing style. Guidance on how partners can effectively manage career transition points. A series of best-practice case study 'stories' on how law firm partners can best lead in different situations. Practical tips for law firm leaders based on the authors' own experience as coaches and consultants specialising in law firm leadership development. Managing Your Leadership Career in Law is an indispensable guide for partners in private practice law firms across the globe. Senior and Managing Partners seeking to maximise the effectiveness of their leadership cohort will also benefit from the guidance offered, as well as academics and students learning about private practice law firm leadership, and management in the legal sector more generally"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the authors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Setting the scene
- 1 What is leadership in law?
- 2 The leadership career life cycle of partners in private practice law firms
- Part II The partner career life cycle
- 3 Phase 1: getting established
- 4 Phase 2: consolidating one's reputation
- 5 Phase 3: maximising your 'career peak' years
- 6 Phase 4: leaving a legacy
- Part III Perennial leadership challenges
- Introduction to Part III
- 7 Inclusive leadership: the winning formula
- 8 Leading people older than you
- 9 Providing 'air cover' for your team
- 10 Avoiding micro-management
- 11 Building feedback-rich cultures
- 12 Spotting and developing talent
- 13 Hiring new team members
- 14 Managing the 'star performers'
- 15 Tackling the law firm 'R&
- D challenge'
- 16 Rectifying client service failures
- 17 Leading change
- 18 Handling resignations
- 19 Changing track: moving on yourself
- Part IV Concluding thoughts
- 20 You the leader
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781035316557
- 1035316552
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