The Today’s Wills and Probate Podcast welcomes back Dan Warburton, a law firm consultant and trainer who specialises in helping individuals delegate work more effectively; in the process junior staff are elevated, the individual has a happier work/life balance, and ultimately the firm can be more profitable.
It’s a soapbox Dan has jumped on before having appeared previously on the podcast to discuss “the skill of profitable delegation;” creating leaders who can deliver high levels of performance across their team. Few partners achieve what Dan describes as a “transition out of being a technician in the business to being a business owner”; it should be their objective to remove themselves from a position where the structure and success of the organisation relies on them.
This discussion centres on the launch of Dan’s book “Delegate Now to Supercharge Your Profits” in which he outlines the secrets to his methodology;
- including the key differences between “delegation” and “profitable delegation” – “It’s easy to delegate work away ineffectively… It’s a very different skill to delegate work away and have it handled to a high standard whilst gaining a great reputation and making a firm reliably profitable.”)
- Proactive and reactive management – “I’ve come to see that there really is no other way than leading regular one-on-one calls to lead and manage team members effectively.”
- Leading teams in a way that makes them loyal to you
Throughout the podcast Dan discusses tips and tactics for how to work with individuals in the business to help them become more efficient, effective and confident members of the team which in turn enables leaders to lead, rather than remaining forever in the The Law Technician’s Valley of Doom – It’s where partners are all burned out from working long hours and cannot see how to increase their firms’ profits without working even longer hours.
They cannot stop working, and they cannot take breaks to recharge their batteries very often. They take holidays infrequently because their firms rely on them so much to keep operating.
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