Talent

Supporting the entire Partner talent lifecycle

Partners and senior executives have different needs at different stages of their career. We help firms with their entire talent lifecycle from supporting lawyers into partnership and accelerating through into leadership positions, integrating laterals, through to helping Partners consider their next steps after Partnership.

Success stories from recent programmes include:

• Partner election

The Chair of the New Partner Committee felt they were missing data about candidates they felt might struggle to adapt to partnership and lacked “teeth” in relation to challenging the decisions of strong sponsors.

We designed and ran a business psychology review process to help the candidates identify gaps they would need to fill to become highly effective Partners and to develop committee members to work with the information.

We are now into our 5th year of running this process alongside the Committee who welcome the additional data and insights that are provided at interview and beyond.

• Supporting succession and elections

Following multiple terms by the incumbent MP the SP and Board were concerned about the potential and suitability of the future partners stepping into the role.

Our role was to support a governance refresh, encourage partners to stand and to develop a programme of learning and insights for those considering standing. The firm has completed the elections and the candidates are mid-handover with the incumbent MP. The results so far are promising.