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Management Training for Professionals

Great lawyers and accountants do not necessarily make the best managers. The skill set is completely different and without management training remains so. What makes a great winner of litigation does not make a good administrator. What goes into an accurate, on time set of ledgers does not make for an effective people coach. Merely giving a lawyer the title of ‘practice manager’ does not transform them into a manager. He is not like Clark Kent stepping into a phone booth and emerging as Superman.

The Peter Principal?

The ‘Peter Principle is the single most persuasive argument for lawyers and accountants to take on regular management training. The Peter Principle was first put forward in the book of the same name and states…”In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” This seminal comedic management treatise was first published in 1968, but don’t you just feel that it is as true today as it has always been true? Management training is essential not just for lawyers and accountants but also for all professions.

Dr. Laurence J. Peter was the first to express the truism, that people in a hierarchy are promoted to the next level as long as they work competently. Without effective management training all organizations have a tendency towards bureaucracy and away from meritocracy so that sooner or later each lawyer or accountant will arrive in a position for which they are no longer competent. They find their ‘level of incompetence’ and as their managers become disillusioned with their performance it is at this level of incompetence that they stay. All of the real work is done by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Incompetency is The Disease. Management Training Is The Cure.

The only way for law and accountancy firms to counteract the Peter principle is to invest heavily and continuously in the management training of their people. It is not enough for lawyers to be experts and specialists in various areas of the law. They need to quickly acquire and apply the people motivating skills of professional management. An accountant who can operate a computerized book keeping system with ease but cannot lead a team to high performance will inevitably lose money for his or her employer.

Some of the key skills to be had through management training are:

ü Recruitment, selection and interviewing.

ü Leading effective meetings.

ü Leading high performance teams.

ü Training others.

ü Maximizing the performance of others.

ü Dealing with under-performance.

ü Handling disciplinary issues.

ü Coaching for high performance.

Incompetency and a low level of performance can very quickly become the cultural norm in organizations where management training is treated as just another initiative or fad. It requires a systematic consistent approach so that continuous professional management development is the cultural norm. Management training is not a cost, it is an investment. It requires to be approached as an investment and the returns from it needs to be evaluated and improved continuously. Leaders who think management training is too expensive soon learn that the Peter principle is far moreso.

What is the best profession in Law that an Economics graduate can pursue?

As we all know there is no “typical lawyer.” There are many “professions” within the profession of law. I have a degree in Economics and I would like to know where my training in the discipline would be maximized. Would it be when i specialize in criminal law, family law, personal injury or defective product litigation, trust and estate law, business transactions and litigation, tax law, employment or labor law, environmental law, patent and trademark law, civil rights litigation, or in other specialized areas?

trust and estate law, followed by tax law,

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Litigation Management Consulting

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Reputation Management

The Internet provides numerous opportunities, both good and bad.  In a strange way, the Internet is extremely democratic in that it allows anyone with access the chance to use or abuse the Web however they see fit.  As such, reputation management has become a major area of interest and concern for millions, if not tens of millions, of Americans.

Reputation management is the process of tracking an entity’s actions and other entity’s opinions about those actions, meaning the search for what people are doing and what others think about what people are doing.  It’s a bit like online gossip, but reputation management goes further than just People magazine.  Entire Internet related responsibilities, such as search engine image protection (SEIP), were created for the sole purpose of protecting a person’s name and reputation from undesired public information.  Reputation management is important to individuals, businesses, non-profits, politicians and more, because it affects so many areas of life.  
There are many ways to execute reputation management on the Internet; one way is to overwhelm and eliminate negative listings that show up when people search a name or term in Google.  However, things have changed and online reputation management is evolving and new services such as online image consulting and litigant image enhancement is growing.

Growth

More so than ever before, it’s easy for an individual to post slanderous, untrue, injurious and hurtful information based on nothing more than the wind.  In the past, a person would have to use a print medium, newsletter, newspaper, to produce a wide spread negative message, but those days are over.  Now, anyone with Internet access can make wild comments.  
Another reason why reputation management is important is that companies are producing as much hurtful information as individuals, if not more.  Comments regarding a person’s credit rating or debt could be posted online, individuals can use the forums on various company Websites to bash the company, the employees, stockholders or whomever they like.  Websites such as eBay, Wikipedia and Slashdot are often abused in such a way.

Solution?

There are a number of ways to combat the type of information that is slanderous or flat out inaccurate.  For example, you can use Search Engine Reputation Management (SERM) to shield your brand or reputation from damaging content.  In the end though, two challenges persist, the nature of Internet search engines and the ability of certain individuals to spread information no matter how much time it takes.
One of the best ways to combat negative information is to produce positive information.  So, reputation management can be performed with SEO/SEM, putting quality information of a positive nature online about the person or entity being attacked.  The goal is to produce enough positive information that it drowns out the negative being produced.  It’s a difficult battle overall, but one that is winnable.  

Moving Forward

To enhance your online reputation management, find a reputable individual or company who can protect your brand and your name.  Odds are you don’t have enough time to deal with the rumors flying around about you, or the time to learn how.  Find professionals who specialize in reputation management and let them handle the mess.

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PORTSMOUTH, N.H.—-Bottomline Technologies will share its expertise in cloud computing on a panel at the August 2010 Cash Management Forum presented by McKinsey & Company’s Global Concepts.