Performance Evaluations: How Can You Help?

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Partners in many firms will soon deliver annual evaluations to associates and counsel. Are your partners prepared? Will they motivate your strongest performers? Will the tough messages they intend to deliver be the messages that are actually received? Are they ready to offer concrete suggestions about future development instead of “Keep doing what you’re doing.” And when they ask you for advice about how to handle a difficult situation, what will you say?

If your partners have already delivered annual evaluations, how did they go? And how can you help with the follow-up?

This program for PD professionals will offer practical tips for helping partners to structure effective evaluation meetings, avoid common pitfalls, generate constructive dialogue, deliver clear messages, including when significant improvement is required, and follow-up effectively.

The program will be led by Trusted Advisor Tim Leishman. 

About Tim Leshman

Tim has been working with major law firms for more than 25 years, as a partner with management responsibilities in a leading Canadian firm and as a consultant since 1997 with more than a third of the Global 100 law firms and firms of all sizes. Tim designs customized leadership development programs for practice group and client team leaders, and for partners who wish to make leadership contributions in their respective practices. Tim has created advanced programs in business development, goal-setting, and managerial skills, including delegation, team leadership, project management, and feedback. Tim’s consulting expertise is in strategic planning, governance, partner compensation, succession planning, and talent strategy.