Julie Harrison Consulting - Specialising in change and organisational development

Communicating for change

The benefits of internal communications in engaging behaviour and motivation during change (…a merger or an acquisition)

At times of merger or acquisition one of the major challenges is retaining key people – ensuring that they are clear in the rationale for the merger and the opportunities it offers to them – whilst delivering on the project plan…

In this insightful article, Julie takes a closer look at how truly effective internal communication benefits business and helps smooth the ruffles of what can be a challenging transitional period. Focused on retaining, or creating employee (and partner) engagement, which delivers real, tangible benefits to individuals, their firms and the bottom line, Julie explores this style of communication and how it can be delivered. Done well, it will inform and support the merger process; done badly, it can easily undermine it.  With precious little second chances to engage and motivate key people during a merger process, it’s very worthwhile taking some time to consider carefully the process and get it right first time.

The power and impact of coaching in developing leaders within law firms

A practical guide to establishing a coaching programme within your firm

Still a relatively new concept to many law firms, over the past five years many are now investing heavily in coaching for their managers and leaders; realising the true potential of their staff and great benefits to their bottom line.

Changing markets, uncertain economic prosperity, growing competition, greater client demands, de-regulation, international firms, mergers, acquisitions, technology… the list of challenges your firm faces on a daily basis may seem unending, but whilst the scale and impact of these changes differs what is clear is the need for an effective response.  Developing lawyers as leaders - in this detailed and highly motivating piece Julie looks at how enhanced leadership skills can help manage the strategic change needed, address successfully the challenges of our changing times and offer tangible benefits to individuals, their firms and bank balance.

People Management of Law Firms

An in-depth guide to achieving significant change in your people processes and help deliver a genuine improvement to the overall performance of your firm, ‘People Management of Law Firms’ offers practical knowledge and expertise in implementing a host of effective strategies. Providing you with the knowledge and understanding to perform your role efficiently and importantly, also offering a powerful and extensive resource detailing the skills, strategies and techniques that will make the cultural changes your firm faces today successful.

The First 100 Days

This powerful and thought provoking guide is for anyone taking up a new leadership role - perhaps Managing Partner or indeed any department head or simply as a leader. An often a challenging and fraught time, those first few months are very often crucial to an individual’s success and here you’ll find a great resource for those exciting, frustrating and exhilarating first 100 days of new resolutions, planning, influence and ultimate success!

Professional personal change

Imagine the scenario – your leadership team spend time off-site reflecting about your firm and the changes and opportunities which exist in the market place. You develop a clear strategy and vision for the firm to go forward. A partner conference is held and all of your partners discuss and agree the strategy; followed by firm-wide communications – great, a major step forward for the firm! Next comes the tricky part – how do you get the partners truly engaged with that strategy and their role in leading and delivering its achievement?

This incisive article discusses the many benefits of executive coaching in engaging partner behaviour and motivation with the strategy and vision of the firm and with their role as leaders of business change, including:

• Why changing partner behaviour is critical
• How executive coaching helps the specific issues facing law firms
• The benefits of executive coaching
• Who executive coaching is for
• Some common pitfalls
• How to know it has made a difference
• Getting started!