Category Archives: influencing

Learning from the past

Posted on January 10, 2022 by knowledge4lawyers

Should all knowledge workers and leaders learn poker? I recently listened to “Future You”, part of this series about thinking by Prof Steven Pinker, expecting something useful for my New Year’s resolutions. In fact, it was primarily about future discounting … Continue reading →

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Motivations

Posted on January 27, 2021 by knowledge4lawyers

Often those of us who work in Knowledge and Learning have to ask people to go beyond their core role: we ask lawyers to supervise junior members of staff; we ask them to write articles about complex areas of law … Continue reading →

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Practice what you preach

Posted on October 21, 2020 by knowledge4lawyers

“Practice what you preach”. I’m sure we all know this saying. It’s an important one for getting people onside and building trust. If you can’t practice something yourself, you shouldn’t be preaching it to others. But what about preaching what … Continue reading →

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The 3 minute KM plan

Posted on July 26, 2017 by knowledge4lawyers

I still follow The Thesis Whisperer blog from my days doing my MBA and recently they hosted a guest blog from Mary Woessner who described her involvement in the “three minute thesis” competition (3MT). In the 3MT competition, PhD candidates … Continue reading →

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Goals and priorities

Posted on March 9, 2017 by knowledge4lawyers

How often do you have a strategy for the year and a plan for the day, but end up helping everyone else reach their goals and fulfil their strategies, rather than achieve your own? It’s a really common problem with … Continue reading →

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Ted talks worth your time

Posted on November 14, 2016 by knowledge4lawyers

I *love* TED talks, so I thought I’d bring some to your attention that I’ve found interesting and useful. This is a great list, curated by TED, all about making our “work” work better The benefits of failure from the … Continue reading →

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Lawyers and their personalities

Posted on September 13, 2016 by knowledge4lawyers

We had a really interesting session at Bristol’s KN-UK yesterday lunchtime all about personality types and how to understand them, and a discussion about how we could all apply this to help us work more efficiently and smoothly with lawyers … Continue reading →

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Leadership and Influencing

Posted on June 9, 2016 by knowledge4lawyers

We had a very interesting KN-UK session yesterday on leadership and influencing with Carol Skolimowski of CAPCC, which included a wide-ranging discussion touching on managing millenials, encouraging women into leadership and herding cats. I imagine everyone’s takeaways were different, but … Continue reading →

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