Newsletter Archive
The start of every new year brings with it new possibilities. Longstanding activities can be enhanced or changed and new opportunities abound. This is an exciting time for me professionally, with ongoing projects and one brand new venture keeping me busy and engaged.
This issue of Management Solutions presents recent articles I have written and interviews, podcasts and other resources that explain how to promote mentorship, sponsorship networking and communications across gender and other differences. We also note four upcoming conferences and programs about mentoring and women’s advancement that you might want to attend.
- Special Book Offers!
- How Do You Find a Sponsor?
- Resources on Social Media
- Mentoring and Professional Development
- New resources for women on sponsorship
- Mentoring and Sponsorship Resources
- Sponsorship Program Survey and Webinar
- Events that Celebrate and Promote Sponsorship: 4 Examples
- Mentorship vs. Sponsorship: Visual resource
- National Conference on Mentoring in the Legal Profession
- New Opportunity for Women Seeking to Return to Law Practice
- Sponsoring Women: What Men Need to Know
- Breakfasts for Champions: Celebrating Men Who Champion Women
- Sponsorship: Why A Book For Men?
- Modernizing Mentoring
- Experiential Learning and Mentoring: Two Bar Association Reports
- New Research Project on Law Firm Mentoring
- Re-Imagining the Future of Law Practice
- Law Firm Leaders Need to “Lean In”
- Should Your Firm Start A Sponsorship Program?
- New Resource to Achieve Gender Equity in Compensation
- Project Management: A Good Start, But Just a Start
- Highlights of the Year
- Coaching, Mentoring and Sponsorship
- The Allure and Challenges of Sponsorship Programs for Women
- Women Leaders and the Dilemma of Authenticity
- Professional Development Needs to Re-Examine Priorities
- Aligning Law Firm and Corporate Client Interests
- Institutionalized Gender Bias Is Proven In A Wall Street Law Firm
- One Step Above Award
- WILEF Gold Standard Certification
- Wonder where your future partners will come from? Don’t look at young men.
- Law Without Walls
- Fenwick starts a FLEXible client service model
- Do It Yourself Business Network
- Beyond Mentors: The Need for Champions
- A More Strategic Women’s Initiative
- Bar Association of San Francisco Study of Partners of Color
- The Newest State Bar Mentoring Program for New Lawyers
- Women’s Advancement Requires A Few Good Men
- How Two Firms Are Proving Their Commitment to Diversity
- 2010 InnovAction Awards
- My new book: Women on Top: The Woman’s Guide to Leadership and Power in Law Firms
- CLE opportunity – Elimination of Bias
- Re-imagining leadership competencies
- Three specialized leadership programs
- PD Roundtable for Global Law Firms
- Hastings Leadership Academy for Women
- Three Trends to Watch
- State Bar Mentoring Programs on the Rise
- Moving Away from Early Specialization
- Hastings Leadership Academy for Women
- Ins and Outs of Lockstep
- Challenging Assumptions About How Lawyers Work
- At Last: A Move To Flexible Career Tracks
- Message to First Year Associates: Come to Work and Learn
- On the International Scene: Changes to Watch
- Networking and Motherhood Go Together
- The Austin Manifesto
- Professional Development Roundtable for Global Law Firms
- The Importance of Mentoring in Turbulent Times
- Real World Education for Law Students and Associates
- Looking at Lawyers’ Work Through Clients’ Eyes
- Global Conference Calls
- Roundtable on Professional Development for Global Firms
- Going Global: Enhancing Lawyers’ Cultural Competence
- InnovAction Awards
- Hastings Leadership Academy for Women
- Transitioning Clients
- Speed Mentoring: A Misleading Misnomer
- Hastings Leadership Academy for Women
- Taking the Lead
- The Importance of Informal Mentoring
- The Rules of Engagement
- Law Practice Management in Australia
- The 2008 Hastings Leadership Academy for Women
- True or False: You Are What You Bill
- New Approaches to Time and Performance
- InnovAction Award Winners
- Welcome to the Revolution
- Best Practices in Associate Retention
- 2007 InnovAction Awards
- The Hastings Leadership Academy for Women
- Best Practices
- – Preparing Lawyers for Global Practice
- – Proving the Value of Mentoring
- Update on “Opting Back In and Forging Ahead”
- Women in Law: Off-Ramps and On-Ramps on the Road to Success
- Law Firms That Support Fathers and Mothers
- Law Firms Form Strategic Alliances to Promote Diversity
- InnovAction: New Online Journal
- Calls for Nomination for Awards
- Diversity in Global Law Firms: Developing a Global Mindset
- Mentoring Groups and Mentoring Circles: The Need for Careful Planning
- Case Study: Bridging Cultural Differences
- Law Firm Mergers: The Role of Professional Development Leaders
- Case Study: Acquiring a Group of Lawyers
- Mentor-Mentee Match-Making
- Evaluating Mentoring Programs
- Case Study: Bar Association of San Francisco Diversity Goals and Timetables
- The Growing Importance of Employer Flexibility
- Starting a Women’s Initiative
- Case Study: Responding to Poor Associate Satisfaction Survey Results
- Practice Tip: In Mentoring Programs, One Size Does Not Fit All
- VIP Mentors
- Leadership Development Initiative for New Partners
- Case Study: Coaching a New Professional Development Director
- Build on Summer Mentoring Success to Improve Recruitment and Retention
- Mentoring Programs for Minority Lawyers
- Case Study: Retain Associates Through Appropriate Assignments
- Predictions for 2005
- Case Study: Improving Cross-Gender Communication
- Cost of Losing Associates
- Eight Cost-Effective Ways to Promote Lawyers’ Development in Mid-Sized and Small Firms (and Practice Groups)
- Case Study: Using Appreciative Inquiry
- Creating a Professional Development Plan
- Case Study: To Find the Right Solution, Identify the Real Problem
- Evaluating Training
- Individual Development Plans: Identifying Goals
- Case Study: Stemming the Loss of Women Partners
- Mentoring Across Differences: A Guide to
- Cross-Gender and Cross-Race Mentoring
- Associate Retention: An Ongoing Problem
- Being “Green”: How one firm’s sustainability initiative is protecting the environment, saving money, developing new business, and enhancing firm morale
- Management Tip: Welcoming New Lawyers into the Firm
- Spotlight on Feedback
- Improving Performance Through Coaching: Two Case Studies
- Management Tip: Using self-assessments in the performance review process
- Training Innovations
- Improving Performance
- Spotlight on Mentoring
- Solving Management Problems: Using an Outside Consultant to Deal with a Difficult Client – A Case Study
- Helpful Diagnostic Tools:
- Succession Planning: Do It Now!
- Solving Management Problems: Restoring Morale Among the Highest Producers – A Case Study
- Spotlight on Innovative Practices