Topic
Communication
270 published works
The Social Media Butterfly
What Professionalism Looks Like at Work Today: What to Do When You Don’t Like How People Perceive You
It’s hard to hear that someone sees you differently than you see yourself. You may think you’re being direct, trying to fix a problem, standing up for yourself or explaining…
Law People
Listening Well
By Ronda Muir
One of the great skills that should be rewarded, particularly in lawyers, is listening well. That means for many lawyers that they have to come up with the "right" solution…
The Social Media Butterfly
What Professionalism Looks Like at Work: How to Communicate More Effectively
Think about how much of your workday involves communicating with other people. You're answering emails, participating in meetings, responding to questions, reviewing someone's work, discussing deadlines and trying to keep…
The Social Media Butterfly
What Professionalism Looks Like at Work Today: Clear Expectations, Better Feedback and Stronger Teams
Professionalism plays an important role in how we work with colleagues, serve clients and develop our careers. It influences communication, collaboration, trust and the way we represent ourselves and our…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Authenticity Is Still Key — and Lawyers Can Start by Listening
"Authenticity is still key for smaller brands, so founder-led content is really important," Leif Fry, a one-time successful entrepreneur who heads a fund that purchases e-commerce brands, told Corissa Steiner…
Red Clover Advisors Blog
Most of us are bad at this
By RTR Admin
Turns out a lot of you really resonated with last week’s newsletter. I’m SO grateful for each person who reads each newsletter and says something about how it struck a…
Althouse
Unsaid things.
By Ann Althouse
That's a favorite tag of mine and I've even blogged about the tag.In 2014, I said: "I feel that I've found the psychic key to my favorite tag: 'unsaid things.'... Did…
Explorations with Information and Technology
Improve Lawyer Communications with Improv
By David Whelan
Reading Time: 5 minutes The law school’s senior staff meet monthly and we occasionally convert the meeting into a group training. Things as common as managing personality types or corporate…
Mike McBride Online
Worth Reading – Unspoken Expectations are the Costliest Thing a Leader Never Says
By Mike McBride
The post above points out that it's not as simple as communicating more; it's also about communicating better and making it clear where the employee is empowered to make the…
2Civility Blog
Extroverted, Introverted, or in Between? How Lawyers Function Differently in Workplaces
Photo credit: iStock.com Key points To thrive, legal teams need lawyers with a variety of personality types, but often don’t understand the differences between introverts, extroverts, and everyone in between.…