In today's episode, I’m talking about letting others fail. This is my favorite topic, actually, of all the things that we talk about involving people- the idea of training and cultivating a culture of people that know how to do things without you. It's such a challenging topic for most law firm owners, current/former clients, and even for people that have approached me online. 

 

Many believe  there's no freedom in owning a law firm because there's so much stress and agita that's involved in actually having people work for you. Countless law firm owners decide they don't want to grow because in the past their employees did not perform the way that they wanted. As a result, they have made up their minds that there is no way for them to have a law firm that runs without them because they always either get the wrong employee, or they  just don't know how to train and manage and cultivate high performance in their teams.

 

I have solutions for you, stay tuned!

In this episode we discuss:

• High performance from the perspective of failure.
• How to be a safety net for someone who is learning without taking over the task.
• Changing your mindset of trying for perfection.
• Learning lessons from the failures in your journey to success.
• The idea that you can enhance your law firm’s reputation by hiring someone that is better at lawyering than you, rather than being intimidated to do so. 
• Being supportive, believing in your employees and delegating responsibility to them.
• Being ok with letting a person fail.
• Allowing people to demonstrate their value.

 

Allison Bio:

 

Allison C. Williams, Esq., is Founder and Owner of the Williams Law Group, LLC, with offices in Short Hills and Freehold, New Jersey. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Matrimonial Law Attorney and is the first attorney in New Jersey to become Board-Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in the field of Family Law. 

 

Ms. Williams is an accomplished businesswoman. In 2017, the Williams Law Group won the LawFirm500 award, ranking 14th of the fastest growing law firms in the nation, as Ms. Williams grew the firm 581% in three years. Ms. Williams won the Silver Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017.  In 2018, Ms. Williams was voted as NJBIZ’s Top 50 Women in Business and was designated one of the Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. In 2019, Ms. Williams won the Seminole 100 Award for founding one of the fastest growing companies among graduates of Florida State University.

 

In 2018, Ms. Williams created Law Firm Mentor, a business coaching service for lawyers.  She helps solo and small law firm attorneys grow their business revenues, crush chaos in business and make more money.  Through multi-day intensive business retreats, group and one-to-one coaching, and strategic planning sessions, Ms. Williams advises lawyers on all aspects of creating, sustaining and scaling a law firm business – and specifically, she teaches them the core foundational principles of marketing, sales, personnel management, communications and money management in law firms. 

Contact Info:

 

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Textphone number:  908 292 3524

 

Podcast: Parenting Your Baby Lawyers. https://lawfirmmentor.net/2021/08/31/parenting-your-baby-lawyers/ 

 

Snippets

 

00:01:42 (38 seconds)

Now, I know a lot of people are triggered by the idea of failure, and a lot of times we associate failure as a personal failing, meaning there's something wrong about me, either I'm wrong or I'm not good enough or there's something about me that is broken that led to this failure, even when all circumstances outside of yourself are pointing to your just not having mastered the different strategies that are involved in whatever it was that you failed at. But we take it personally when we fail and then as a result, we embed in our DNA a mindset that says failure is bad. Failure is wrong.