The people case for smarter collaboration is clear; when law firms improve cross-silo working they enhance their ability to attract, engage, and retain top talent.
Watch our recent workshop with Dr. Heidi Gardner focused on the Smarter Collaboration for Talent Engagement & Retention to discover how firms can:
- Attract top talent that will improve organizational performance by enhancing your screening and interviewing methods, better leveraging your search firm, and emphasizing the importance of collaboration to candidates.
- Engage talent by creating the context where they can do their best work on a daily basis, leveraging their strengths, and relying on peers with complementary expertise to tackle more interesting and meaningful work. We will introduce a practical tool you can use for boosting engagement (and the tangible benefits it produces).
- Retain talent through cementing trust and teamwork, rewarding employees for their collaborative efforts, and connecting people across work environments (for example, at home, in the office, and in a hybrid arrangement) around a common goal.
This workshop also explores the hot new topic of boomerang employees, including how to create a culture where people leave as “friends of the firm,” continue productive relationships (potentially even as clients), and ultimately may decide to return to the firm with valuable new skills and perspectives.
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Heidi K. Gardner PhD, Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School Heidi K. Gardner, PhD, is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School and Faculty Chair in the school’s executive programs. Previously she was a professor at Harvard Business School. Dr. Gardner’s book Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos became a Washington Post bestseller. Named by Thinkers 50 as a Next Generation Business Guru, Dr. Gardner co-founded the research and advisory firm Gardner & Co. The company has launched a suite of tech products to enhance behavioral shifts, including a psychometric tool (Smart Collaboration Accelerator) and a peer feedback tool (Smart Collaboration 360). Dr. Gardner’s next book, ;Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work, will be published by Harvard Business Press in November 2022. Altogether, she has authored (or co-authored) more than 80 books, chapters, case studies, and articles. Her research received the Academy of Management’s prize for Outstanding Practical Implications for Management, and has been selected multiple times for Harvard Business Review’s “best of” collections. Her research has been featured in major media outlets around the globe. |