Doing Well by Doing Good: Increase Team Performance and Productivity
While intra-group competition may foster some stand out talent; cooperation and team-building will ultimately lead to greater success, and a much happier team.
Career Longevity: Lawyers Leaving the Legal Industry
It is important to be an asset to the firm, but remember, you're no help to anyone if you've burnt-out earlier on and quit three years in. Instead, lets make sure being a lawyer is a feasible long-term, dare I say, lifetime career.
Mentorship – Mentee, Mentor, and the Firm: We’re all Winners
The fortification of personal bonds at work will ensure excellent junior associates develop a deeper sense of loyalty and commitment to the firm. Mentorship develops those bonds in a positive and professional manner.
Good Morning: The Importance of a Happy & Positive Morning Mood
Now that you are equipped with the knowledge of the importance of a happy and positive morning mood and what it can do for you, what can you do to ensure that you walk into the office on the right foot?
Admitting Defeat vs. Feeling Defeated (and why the former is not a bad thing!)
After admitting defeat, accept a new challenge. To rely on another famous lawyerism, “when you can’t get through the front door, go around the back.”
Tomorrow is a New Day: Bad Interviews
Stop. Take a Breath. Re-set. Bad days and bad interviews, they happen; but tomorrow is a new day. There is nothing to make a bad interview better, all you can do is take a deep breath and re-set for the next one.
Young Women in Law’s 4th Annual Charity Gala
Dress for Success is an important charity that the Heller Group is proud to support.
The MISTAKES to AVOID when Person-to-Person Networking
All you can control in these situations is yourself, so be sure to be put your best self out there when engaging in person-to-person networking by avoiding the following faux-pas.
Person-to-Person Networking in the Legal Landscape: Not a way of the past.
Whether around the boardroom, at a conference, in a restaurant, while attending a professional development seminar, or in any other social environment, your person-to-person networking ability will be put to the test, and hopefully be put to good use.
Married to the Firm and Rising Divorce Rates: Long-term Job Security
There was once an era of job security - where one would figuratively be married to the firm. You would be courted during articling, engaged during your first year associate position, and soon make a lifetime commitment to the names on the front door.