For teams

• The Challenge

Teams in law firms are fluid and dynamic: they constantly form and re-form in order to respond to client demands that often emerge with little time between the team’s composition and their first deadline.

Lawyers work under particularly high pressure, with demands that often evolve rapidly. Excellent communication is essential in order for lawyers working on complex matters to be able to collaborate effectively together. And in large international law firms, working alongside people of different cultural backgrounds, often with widely varying expectations of how teams should work, is the norm.

• The Solution

Team coaching is a powerful tool for helping teams to thrive in these high-pressure environments where stakes are high. It allows teams to evolve quickly, by giving teams the framework to think explicitly about improvements needed in the ways they work together, and the best way to implement those improvements.

Team coaching takes a whole-of-team approach to performance, allowing the team to reflect analytically and systematically to refine and develop the ways it works together. I help teams to maximise efficiencies, improve communication, and ensure that the team gets maximum leverage out of each individual’s relative strengths.

Team coaching results not only in the immediate application of improved working methods to address growth areas in the immediate term; it gives teams the tools to adapt continuously their working styles into the future so that the team continues to evolve as its members develop, and as the nature and demands of their work change around it.

Having the capacity to react quickly and effectively to major shifts in the market is especially crucial for success in the current environment.

There’s a reason why lawyers at top-ranked law firms seek me out, engage me repeatedly, and recommend me to friends and colleagues: I get results. I understand that time is your most precious resource, and I know first-hand the unique pressures and constraints of law firms.

At our very first session, Jon helped me to empathise with my colleagues and to better see certain issues from their perspective. I was able to go into meetings with less anger and a more open mind, which led to more fruitful exchanges with my colleagues… The result was a strong partnership with a trusted colleague that has developed over the past several months, to the benefit of both of us.

Maya