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In-House Careers: Review Your Performance
Turbo charge your career with meaningful reflection
2 minutes • 27 Nov 23
"Constant performance self-awareness is difficult to attain when you inbox is constantly overflowing. However, not only is it necessary but the practice can all but guarantees conditions for spectacular career progression.” - Matthew Glynn (Managing Director, GLS Group)
In-House Legal Tip: Getting better means actively looking for ways to improve. Taking time to do so as in-house counsel is difficult given constant busyness.
Regularly reviewing your performance as an in-house lawyer is crucial for both personal and professional growth. In many respects – it is actually a career superpower.
By taking a few minutes each week to consider your own performance you equip yourself with a continuous self-awareness that primes you for spectacular progression.
Regularly identifying the strengths and weaknesses in your legal skills places you in poll position to:
- stay on top of evolving laws and industry trends
- develop a proactive approach to professional development
- more efficiently acquire what you need to address skills gaps and enhance your legal expertise
- align your work with the strategic aspirations of your legal team/Business.
Given the incredibly dynamic environment that in-house team are operating the skill of constant self-reflection is increasingly important.
So, take 5 minutes a week and ask yourself:
- how you are getting on?
- what did you do really well?
- what were you not happy with?
- what new skills would help you
- are there changes afoot that you need to adapt to.
Then act accordingly.
Great careers do not just happen. They are planned and intentionally brought into existence.
5 minutes a week on self reflection that leads to positive action will set you apart from 90% of in-house lawyers.
If you want more in-house legal team performance and career insights – please do join the GLS Legal Operations Community for free right here https://www.gls-legaloperations.com/join-now
READ TO TRANSFORM YOUR LEGAL TEAM?
Please check out the GLS solutions and know-how resources listed on the right side of this page – they might assist your legal team with the issues explored in this Blog.
Of course, if you would like discuss your transformation needs – please book a 30 minute FREE CONSULT WITH GLS
In the interim, here are 7 resources and tools that may assist you as you transform the performance capabilities of your legal team:
1. GLS's Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations: download this HERE, and read it thoroughly and regularly. It is a wonderful transformation companion
2. GLS Transformation Boot Camp: for our free and hugely successful, 10 week long, email-based boot camp on how to effectively transform your legal team you can SIGN UP HERE
3. GLS Knowledge Centre: click HERE to access lots of informative and instructive white papers, blogs and training resources etc. - all focused on helping to improve your legal team's performance
4. GLS Legal Operations Community: join the GLS Legal Operations Community and collaborate with other in-house leaders as they seek to tackle many of the same performance issues that you face, click here to JOIN NOW
5. Visit GLS Connect: visit the GLS CONNECT PAGE and select the information you would like to receive from the GLS Legal Operations Community
6. GLS Legal Team Transformation Plans: mitigate the risks of transformation failure by taking a GLS TRANSFORMATION SUPPORT PLAN
7. Register: GLS Legal Operations Centre: REGISTER HERE to access the GLS Legal Operations Centre for free and to receive more than US$20,000 worth of legal team performance resources
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Observations & Tips:
- Spend 5 minutes a week considering your performance
- Consider both the good and the bad
- Review your operating environment for changes - is a pivot required?
- This practice will place you in the 10% of in-house lawyers
- Ask others how you went - apply like salt - not too much or often
- Act on your findings.
- You are smart - back your assessment/judgement
