New - Team Coaching for Partnerships

New - Team Coaching for Partnerships

A series of team coaching modules specifically designed to suit the needs of professional partnership firms

The rules for running a professional partnership firm are changing. Law firms in particular are now facing fierce competition from aggressive, commercially driven organisations offering ‘bulk’ services, such as conveyancing using paralegal staff in place of fully qualified solicitors. Personal accident specialists are springing up offering ‘no-win, no-fee deals’ and using mainstream TV and print advertising to drum up new business, and ‘fixed-fee’ arrangements are becoming more common.

This means that lawyers and other professional firms, that traditionally operate as partnerships, need to adopt a style of management and development more akin to their PLC and Limited Company competitors.

Acorn Coaching has developed a series of Team Coaching modules to help partnerships rise to the resulting management and leadership challenges.

Steve Gee, Acorn’s Senior Coaching Consultant, says: “Through our work with legal and management consultancy firms, we have identified some key issues that face the majority partnerships. Learning to work as a team, reacting to outside influences, and adapting to new commercial pressures, are just a few of the concerns that need to be addressed. Our Team Coaching for Partnership modules have been developed by Acorn tutors with specific experience in working with professional firms.”

Key issues identified by Acorn in this sector include:

  • Ensuring that a partnership is also a cohesive and effective business management and leadership entity

  • The need to make commercial decisions faster

  • Creating a culture where commercial realities are faced and embraced

  • Adapting external communications to meet specific client needs

  • The willingness to deliver a more convenient service range

  • Maintaining positive working relationships and common purpose in challenging times

  • Setting goals and increasing individual and team performance – being a ‘good solicitor’ is no longer enough to provide the best service


    • “Some firms are finding it difficult to buy into a more businesslike ethos, and struggle with the tensions between traditional partnerships and modern practice management growing and developing the practice. Pulling together as a team is critical to this change – it can make the difference between growth and stagnation.” Added Steve Gee.

    Click here for an up to the minute case study on our work with partnerships.

    For further information, click here to contact Steve Gee.

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