Staff Meeting Success: Must Do & Definitely Don’t!

#1 “Must Do!” Hold regular, pre-planned and productive staff meetings. #1 “Definitely Don’t!” Without adequate preparation and the right facilitator to ensure employee meetings are productive, positive and efficient, don’t go there. I could stop writing now as the most critical points of my message are listed above.  A checklist is offered below, however, with [...]

Making Fertilizer from Office Poop

As our awesome grandkids would tell you, we scoop lots of poop on our mountainside horse and donkey ranch.  If we had a nickel for all our scoopings through the years, we’d likely be more than financially set for life. I’m retained by professional firms to serve as their investigator, coach, consultant or temporary administrator.  [...]

Successful Law & Other Professional Firms: Shared Characteristics

Successful law firms — and actually all professional firms and successful businesses — seem to share many common characteristics regardless of their size, areas of practice or location.  A few months back I posted a“shared characteristics” list for 2009 firm success stories.  I’ve updated and posted below a somewhat updated mini-article and checklist: Seminar attendees [...]