Time Management The Crucial Life Skill
While it is common to speak about "time management," the simple truth
is that you cannot manage time. No one can. Yet you can quite
effectively manage yourself — and your behaviors and your choices — as
you move through the day. Indeed, if "time management" is a misnomer,
"time management for lawyers" is a veritable oxymoron. Yet, as the
practice of law and the requirements of business grow increasingly
complex, it becomes even more important to spend your time most
productively.
Time management is really self management and is a crucial life skill
and an important part of being a successful attorney. If you work in an
office and employ others, any attempts at time management must include
your staff as well. As you and your staff learn how to plan, prioritize,
organize, delegate, and minimize interruptions in a way that works for
you and them, you'll have more time for — and be significantly more
effective at — your two main income-producing activities: serving
current clients and developing new ones.
Taught by Bill Jawitz of SuccessTrackEsq., a legal consultant with over
ten years experience counseling attorneys on time management, marketing
and productivity issues, our informative half day seminar will help you
become be more productive, teach you how to stay on track, and show you
how to avoid making costly mistakes and organizational oversights that
could result in ethics problems.
Learn effective skills to spend your time more productively, including:
• Take Control of Your Schedule--
When you take control of your schedule, you'll plan your time based on
your key priorities — no longer responding to what is most urgent, but
to what is most important. Whether it's marketing, firm management,
client work, or making more time for your children, for example, you'll
work so that those tasks are front and center. As you learn to apply a
handful of basic tactics — batching staff questions, use of
do-not-disturb project time, effective calendaring, daily and weekly
planning, etc. — you'll find that your calendar begins to be something
that works for you instead of something you're fighting against.
• Prioritize and Delegate Effectively-- If
you are one of the many attorneys who has a love/hate relationship with
the notion of delegation — longing for its benefits but stymied by how
to realize it for your firm — we will help you master the systems to
ensure that you and others in your firm delegate work properly.
• Design Case Flow Systems-- when you
design and implement case flow templates that are aligned with your
firm's practice management software, you are setting the basis to know
where each part of the file resides at any point in the course of
representation. You'll have prompt access to information on status,
deadlines, and benchmarks. And both capacity and speed of production
will increase.
• Conduct Efficient Meetings-- Develop
substantial meetings skills that you can apply to all your meetings —
internally, with clients, with referral sources, or where you serve on
community or other boards. You'll not only enhance outcomes and
efficiency, your reputation for effectiveness and delivering strong
value will grow as well.
• Organize Your Physical and Electronic Information--
each step you take toward heightened organization will provide you with
immediate benefits. Simply having the right storage within easy reach,
for example, can mean the difference between successfully managing a
paper-heavy workflow or suffering the debilitating effects of low-level
chaos. You're buying back your valuable time. We'll get you on track
with solid organizational systems for all your physical and electronic
information. It will put your firm on solid ground. You'll free up time
and resources, and earn yourself well-deserved peace of mind.
NJ CLE information:
This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal
Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 4.6 hours of total CLE
credit. Of these, 1.0 qualify as hours of credit for
ethics/professionalism.