Category: Leadership

Technology, automation and increased competition mean the billable hour is on borrowed time. Firms know it and so do their clients. Focus instead has...Read more about Time’s up for the billable hour: Focusing on value is now the only option

By Harriet Johnson, Openside Tutor and Barrister practising from Doughty Street Chambers The Halo Effect describes the phenomenon experienced by a woman holding her...Read more about The Partnership Trap

A series of ‘Points of View’ articles based on latest research, client interviews, surveys & academic papers on the role of Millennials in professional services....Read more about Special Report: Millennials in Professional Services – face the challenges and embrace the opportunities

No student or graduate has ever been fully prepared to enter the world of work. Recent studies of employers and Millennials find both groups...Read more about The Millennials’ Skills Gap – Why, so what and what to do about it?

Contents Part 1: The continued scepticism of participants towards training in professional services Part 2: The perceptions of leaders’ attitudes towards training Part 3: The Broken Windows...Read more about Special Report: Why (most) training is still useless and what leaders can do about it

Millennials may be entering the professional services workforce lacking critical career skills and competencies, as suggested by employers in recent studies and also by...Read more about Defining a professional services career skill set for Millennials

Part 2 – The negative perceptions of leaders’ attitudes towards training in firms Unfortunately, within many professional services firms, the following perceptions prevail among...Read more about Part 2: The negative perceptions of leaders’ attitudes towards training in firms

Millennials are different. They have their own unique attitudes and values sets as result of the socio-economic and technological environment within which they have...Read more about Developing ‘Human Skills’ among the Millennial professional services workforce

A series of articles that redefine the role of Marketing in professional services & introducing the ‘Hidden Curriculum’ Executive Summary Marketing in a professional services...Read more about Special Report: Professional Services Marketing is Dead; Long Live Professional Services Marketing

Part 3: The Broken Windows Strategy in New York In the second half of our Special Report we explore how leaders can stop (most) training being...Read more about Part 3: The Broken Windows Strategy in New York

‘Millennials’ – also known as Generation Y – are individuals who were born in the early 1980s to late 1990s and will come of...Read more about Who are Millennials and why should professional services firms care?

Recent research suggests there are two main reasons why marketing remains undervalued in professional services firms: 1. The Attitudes of Partners and Principals towards...Read more about Part 1: The challenges facing marketing teams in traditional professional services firms