How To Make Partner https://www.howtomakepartner.com/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:01:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://ee9qx699hek.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-favicon.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&resize=32%2C32&ssl=1 How To Make Partner https://www.howtomakepartner.com/ 32 32 Direction – The question no one asks before going for partner https://www.howtomakepartner.com/the-question-no-one-asks-before-going-for-partner/ https://www.howtomakepartner.com/the-question-no-one-asks-before-going-for-partner/#respond Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:59:00 +0000 https://www.howtomakepartner.com/?p=46859 Only 44% of professionals pursuing partnership have truly considered whether the partner role is right for them and made an informed decision about it. More than half are moving towards one of the biggest career commitments of their lives without ever properly asking: is this what I actually want? This episode covers the second of...

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]]> https://www.howtomakepartner.com/the-question-no-one-asks-before-going-for-partner/feed/ 0 Mindset – Why the Most Brilliant People in the Room Don’t Always Make Partner https://www.howtomakepartner.com/why-the-most-brilliant-people-in-the-room-dont-always-make-partner/ https://www.howtomakepartner.com/why-the-most-brilliant-people-in-the-room-dont-always-make-partner/#respond Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:59:21 +0000 https://www.howtomakepartner.com/?p=46847 The most technically brilliant professionals don’t always make partner. This episode explores why, through the lens of the first, and most important, of the 12 key indicators of partnership readiness: Mindset. Using the real example of a lawyer with 98.5% utilisation who was asked to wait another year, this episode unpacks the fundamental difference that...

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]]> https://www.howtomakepartner.com/why-the-most-brilliant-people-in-the-room-dont-always-make-partner/feed/ 0 What Should Actually Be in Your Default Diary https://www.howtomakepartner.com/what-should-actually-be-in-your-default-diary/ https://www.howtomakepartner.com/what-should-actually-be-in-your-default-diary/#respond Mon, 25 May 2026 10:44:26 +0000 https://www.howtomakepartner.com/?p=46790 Most lawyers on the partnership track have tried time blocking. You carve out the slots, and then a real deadline arrives and the block gets sacrificed. The problem isn’t your discipline. It’s that most people are time blocking the wrong things: treating their diary like a to-do list with timestamps rather than a deliberate design...

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]]> https://www.howtomakepartner.com/what-should-actually-be-in-your-default-diary/feed/ 0 Why Delegation Keeps Failing (And It’s Not What You Think) https://www.howtomakepartner.com/why-delegation-keeps-failing-and-its-not-what-you-think/ https://www.howtomakepartner.com/why-delegation-keeps-failing-and-its-not-what-you-think/#respond Mon, 18 May 2026 10:04:25 +0000 https://www.howtomakepartner.com/?p=46785 Think about the last time you delegated something and it came back wrong. What did you tell yourself? Most of us land on “I’m bad at delegating” or “they weren’t up to it” and then quietly decide to do it ourselves next time. But that pattern isn’t a skills problem. It’s an identity problem, and...

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]]> https://www.howtomakepartner.com/why-delegation-keeps-failing-and-its-not-what-you-think/feed/ 0 How to turn tough feedback into your best career asset https://www.howtomakepartner.com/how-to-turn-tough-feedback-into-your-best-career-asset/ https://www.howtomakepartner.com/how-to-turn-tough-feedback-into-your-best-career-asset/#respond Mon, 11 May 2026 11:51:39 +0000 https://www.howtomakepartner.com/?p=46796 Are you secretly dreading your next piece of feedback? Do you find yourself going into defence mode the moment someone tells you something you don’t want to hear? You’re not alone. And it’s not a character flaw. Your brain is literally wired to treat negative feedback as a threat, triggering a fight-or-flight response that makes...

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]]> https://www.howtomakepartner.com/how-to-turn-tough-feedback-into-your-best-career-asset/feed/ 0 How to restart your BD when you’ve stopped for a while https://www.howtomakepartner.com/how-to-restart-your-bd-when-youve-stopped-for-a-while/ https://www.howtomakepartner.com/how-to-restart-your-bd-when-youve-stopped-for-a-while/#respond Mon, 04 May 2026 11:18:27 +0000 https://www.howtomakepartner.com/?p=46793 Have you ever let your business development slip. And then found yourself paralysed about picking it back up again? It happens to all of us. Life gets in the way. A week turns into a month. And suddenly you’re not just behind on your BD activities; you’re dealing with the added weight of embarrassment, procrastination,...

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]]> https://www.howtomakepartner.com/how-to-restart-your-bd-when-youve-stopped-for-a-while/feed/ 0 Inheriting a Partner’s Portfolio: Why It’s Harder Than It Looks https://www.howtomakepartner.com/inheriting-a-partners-portfolio-why-its-harder-than-it-looks/ https://www.howtomakepartner.com/inheriting-a-partners-portfolio-why-its-harder-than-it-looks/#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:24:02 +0000 https://www.howtomakepartner.com/?p=46611 If a partner in your firm is retiring and you’re being lined up to take over their portfolio, it can feel like the route to partnership is clear. The clients are there. The revenue is there. All you have to do is step in. But brokers who sell books of business factor in at least...

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]]> https://www.howtomakepartner.com/inheriting-a-partners-portfolio-why-its-harder-than-it-looks/feed/ 0 The Seven Mistakes That Will Sink Your Business Case https://www.howtomakepartner.com/the-seven-mistakes-that-will-sink-your-business-case/ https://www.howtomakepartner.com/the-seven-mistakes-that-will-sink-your-business-case/#respond Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:52:49 +0000 https://www.howtomakepartner.com/?p=46607 When my team reviews a client’s Business Case for the first time, we almost always find at least one of the same mistakes. Some are fixable with a few hours of rewriting. Others can’t be fixed in the document at all because they’re not document problems. They’re practice problems. In this episode, we go through...

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]]> https://www.howtomakepartner.com/the-seven-mistakes-that-will-sink-your-business-case/feed/ 0 The Profit Margin Episode: Why Growing Your Practice Isn’t Just About Winning More Work https://www.howtomakepartner.com/growing-your-practice-isnt-just-about-winning-more-work/ https://www.howtomakepartner.com/growing-your-practice-isnt-just-about-winning-more-work/#respond Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:26:13 +0000 https://www.howtomakepartner.com/?p=46604 Most Business Cases are built around one thing: winning more clients. But your partners aren’t just looking at your revenue ambitions. They’re looking at whether you think commercially; whether you understand margin, efficiency, and what it takes to build something sustainable. This episode shows you why growing your practice profitably often means improving what you...

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]]> https://www.howtomakepartner.com/growing-your-practice-isnt-just-about-winning-more-work/feed/ 0 The 5.5 processes you need to manage to have a sustainable practice https://www.howtomakepartner.com/processes-to-have-a-sustainable-practice/ https://www.howtomakepartner.com/processes-to-have-a-sustainable-practice/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:51:00 +0000 https://www.howtomakepartner.com/?p=46601 When someone asks how you’re going to grow your practice, most people’s answer is some version of: win more clients. But winning more work is only one of five and a half ways to grow a practice. And it’s not always the highest-leverage one. If your Business Case feels vague, e.g. lots of good intentions,...

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