How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life: The Smart Way to Get to and Stay at the Top

ISBN-13: 9780749498368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str.

Heather Townsend; Jo Larbie

Opis

Become a partner the smart way using this definitive guide to having it all - professional success and a life outside of work.

Recenzje

"How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life is a must read for anyone wanting to be a partner in a professional practice. This thought provoking book helps you navigate your own route to partnership and also offers guidance on how to succeed once you've reached your goal. Each chapter is packed full of practical advice and real-life examples. I have found this book invaluable and I'd highly recommend it." Hollie Gallagher, Partner Bircham Dyson Bell LLP (about previous edition)

Spis treści

• • Chapter - 00: Overview and introduction;
• Section - ONE: Is partnership right for you?;
• • Chapter - 01: What does being a partner in the 21st century actually mean?;
  • Chapter - 02: What do you want from your career and life?;
  • Chapter - 03: The four different routes to partnership;
  • Chapter - 04: Is partnership for you? Making the right choices;
• Section - TWO: Building a firm foundation for partnership;
• • Chapter - 05: How to keep your mind and body working at peak performance;
  • Chapter - 06: How to become partnership potential;
  • Chapter - 07: How to develop yourself on the route to partnership;
  • Chapter - 08: Creating and writing your own career action plan;
  • Chapter - 09: Building your support team;
  • Chapter - 10: How your firm makes money;
  • Chapter - 11: How to be seen as 'one of the club';
  • Chapter - 12: How to find the time to fit it all in;
  • Chapter - 13: How to look, sound and be the part;
• Section - THREE: Surviving the early years;
• • Chapter - 14: How to build your network for life;
  • Chapter - 15: How your role will change as you move upwards;
  • Chapter - 16: Keeping your eyes on the prize;
• Section - FOUR: How to build your own client portfolio and team;
• • Chapter - 17: How to become the Go-To-Expert for your firm and profession;
  • Chapter - 18: Building your own client portfolio;
  • Chapter - 19: Managing and leading your way to success;
• Section - FIVE: On partner track - The final steps;
• • Chapter - 20: Overcoming the final hurdles to making partner;
• Section - SIX: Succeeding as a partner;
• • Chapter - 21: How to make a successful transition to partner and owner of your firm;
  • Chapter - 22: How to build strong leadership teams

O autorze

Heather Townsend is the author of the bestselling The Financial Times Guide to Business Networking. She is an in-demand international professional speaker, and best-selling author of another four books including The Go-To Expert. Over the past decade, Heather has worked with over 100 partners, and coached and developed over 1,000 professionals in the UK's most ambitious professional practices. She specialises in working with professionals to help them achieve business and career success through networking and social media.

Jo Larbie is a leading thinker in the world of talent management for professional service firms. Operating at board level, Jo draws on her professional and personal experience as a corporate lawyer, HRD director, management consultant and executive coach in working with a diverse rand of organisations.

Jo Larbie has over 20 years experience in organisational and leadership development and as an academic and senior international executive in global firms. Jo has a deep understanding of the professional services sector and specialises in identifying and developing future talent. She has been personally responsible for many hundreds of professionals successfully taking the step up to partner.