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Accountability 101 – Part four

By Dr. Larry Richard on May 22, 2013
Posted in Accountability, Change Management

In three previous posts, I’ve discussed the psychology of how to hold partners accountable. I focused primarily on approaches that work well with individuals.

In this post, I want to introduce you to three approaches that are more strategic, and … Continue Reading

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Accountability 101 – Part three

By Dr. Larry Richard on March 25, 2013
Posted in Accountability, Change Management

In a previous post (Accountability 101 – Part two) I mentioned that to achieve accountability on the part of partners, you need to:

  1. Use a buy-in approach. Avoid either coercive or “incentivizing” approaches.
  2. Be proactive, not reactive.
  3. Use multiple interventions,
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Accountability 101 – Part two

By Dr. Larry Richard on March 5, 2013
Posted in Accountability, Change Management

This is part two of a series of posts on partner accountability. To recap, in order to achieve accountability, you need to:

  1. Use a buy-in approach. Avoid either coercive or “incentivizing” approaches.
  2. Be proactive, not reactive.
  3. Use multiple interventions, not
… Continue Reading
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Accountability 101 – Part one

By Dr. Larry Richard on February 19, 2013
Posted in Accountability, Change Management

How do you “hold partners accountable?” It’s the beginning of the year, and many law firm leaders are still struggling to get their partners to complete some of the non-billable tasks that are vital to the firm’s success.

In the … Continue Reading

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The Lawyer Personality: Why Lawyers Are Skeptical

By Dr. Larry Richard on February 11, 2013
Posted in Assessment, Personality

I’ve been gathering data on lawyers’ personalities since the early 1980’s. Personality traits are typically measured on a percentile scale ranging from zero % to 100%. When large samples of the general public are tested, individuals’ scores on a given … Continue Reading

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Supercharging Multi-Rater Feedback

By Dr. Larry Richard on January 5, 2013
Posted in Assessment, Leadership, Self-Management

This is the time of year when a lot of law firms administer multi-rater feedback surveys—these can include “360-degree feedback” or simply “360’s”, as well as peer reviews and upward evaluation surveys. What they all have in common is that … Continue Reading

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Losing Weight and Keeping It Off

By Dr. Larry Richard on December 30, 2012
Posted in Self-Management

Although I usually write about leadership, change and resilience, today I want to address weight loss. I know it seems unrelated to the preceding topics, but there’s actually a connection, which we’ll get to in a minute. My main reason … Continue Reading

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Why Skeptics Make Good Lawyers and Lousy Leaders

By Dr. Larry Richard on October 25, 2012
Posted in Leadership

I recently finished conducting a 6-month-long “Action Learning” leadership program with a mid-size law firm. The idea is to train lawyers to be leaders by actually placing them into real live leadership situations, and teaching through experience, instead of using … Continue Reading

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Stress and the Lawyer Brain

By Dr. Larry Richard on October 16, 2012
Posted in Resilience

I’ve posted before about lawyer negativity and low Resilience. Today I want to address a related topic–How stress affects people in general and lawyers in particular. When we experience a stressful situation, we each react differently. Some people cope really … Continue Reading

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Using Measures of “Critical Thinking” to Select Lawyers: Not such a good idea

By Dr. Larry Richard on September 26, 2012
Posted in Selection

I belong to a listserv on Positive Psychology, the new discipline that studies the principles that help ordinary people to thrive (instead of focusing on how to “fix” people who have problems.) Someone on the listserv posed the following question … Continue Reading

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I’m an organizational psychologist specializing in helping large and mid-size law firms corporate legal departments with a range of people issues such as leadership, change management and motivation.

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