Aligning your strategic objectives and people performance to achieve

Qualitative Growth

Qualitative Growth

Understanding the system dynamics between strategy, leadership, learning, performance and productivity is the secret key to unlocking continuous growth potential for your firm, beyond profitability.

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Are you undermining your

Growth Potential?

Growth Potential?

Budgets are an obvious performance metric for any law firm, however, focussing only on month-by-month billable work is likely undermining your firm’s future performance and strategic growth potential.

Let me ask you: Are you focused on increasing profit margins, avoiding hassles, reducing the day-to-day management of others, and wishing everyone else could just get on with the job without constantly needing your attention?

If so, changing your approach to the business of law might be the way for you. Firms who have a strong focus on the business of law, invest in their future through business leadership development. It makes them proactive in delivering excellence and creating an incredible opportunity for qualitative business growth and achieving strategic success.

Our focus today needs to broaden to guarantee future performance. Performance objectives need to include non-financials. Let’s create a link between strategy, performance and productivity, instead of only regarding profit as performance.

Top law firm partners need to be able to lead their strategy, and achieve performance beyond operational success.

Average law firms do not invest in

Business Leadership

Leadership

There is a significantly noticeable difference in the way the average commercial business and the average law firm operate.

Technical delivery versus business leadership

The legal profession sets itself apart from most of the professional services world by falling behind in investing in business leadership development. At the highest levels technical delivery is still the priority, creating a business leadership vacuum.

Most law firm management teams can respond to a single change in market factors but struggle when faced with multiple challenges. In most cases, this can be addressed and handled in firms that have invested in more capable leaders.

Law firms and practices with effective leaders tend to outperform their peers on the indicators that keep people happy – that is, fun, fame and fortune.

What’s more, they seem to be able to sustain their success regardless of bumps in the road such as a global pandemic, major advances in technology and intense challenges from competitors.

It is time to shift your focus

Creating effective leadership and management capabilities has never been more important than it is right now.

If you want to fully realise your firm’s growth and success potential then investing in your people should be your #1 priority.

Investing in your people has significant long-term benefits for your business.

  • All commercial law firms aim to be profitable. That’s a fact. But the reality is that many are going about it the wrong way. Instead of focusing on financials, smart firms are investing in their teams. On average, law firms will see at LEAST 29% increase in profits when leaders choose to focus on their team’s strengths.
  • Give your people the ability and willingness to influence and enable a group of people to jointly achieve a predetermined goal. This is undoubtedly the BEST way to ensure your success, achieve your long-term financial goals and smash the competition.
  • The relationship with your clients determines how and how much you generate revenue. You can increase your revenue by stopping to work for clients, and adopt an approach of working with clients.

Take positive action, invest in your people to

Experience long-term benefits in your firm

in your firm

With the right support, your entire leadership and management team will excel way beyond expectations and transform your entire firm. Your strategic objectives are within grasp when you focus on the importance of business leadership. You will be able to turn individual skills into practice and firm capabilities and effectively and accurately plan for cohesive and predictable success.

Together we develop practice leaders who

  • are confident in themselves and lead a positive practice

  • are decisive, take ownership of their decisions and can create support for their decisions

  • take full accountability for their practice or team performance and culture

  • communicate clearly and concisely with any stakeholder

  • values qualitative growth and invests in their practice or team success

The function of leadership is to instil self-leadership in everyone, to achieve collective growth.

The importance of understanding the

Impact of your Leadership

the impact of your Leadership

Every leaders influences the people around them, whether they intend to or not. Partners often underestimate the impact of their leadership on the practice, the firm – the business – and the people they lead.

We help leaders become fully self-aware in their environment. Understanding we influence outcomes by action and inaction, we might as well ensure actions are deliberate and are aimed and enhancing performance.

Your impact as a leader

Understanding what you can create and what you can generate through others will dramatically enhance your ability to effectively influence outcomes.

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Strong leaders create

  • Guidance
  • Empowerment
  • Direction
  • Engagement
  • Inspiration
  • Leaders
  • Ownership

Strong leaders generate

  • Productivity
  • Efficiency
  • Cohesion
  • Improvement
  • Profit
  • Success
  • Time

Key leadership statistics for your firm

84% of organisations anticipate a leadership shortfall in the next five years

Source: infoprolearning.com

83% of organisations believe it is important to develop leaders at every level of the company

Source: zippia.com

5% of businesses have implemented leadership development at all levels

Source: bloomleaders.com

59% of millennials believe there is a lack of leadership development in the workplace

Source: surveymonkley.com

Up to 29% increase in profits, when leaders choose to focus on their team’s strengths

Source: gallup.com

“I create effective leaders who understand problems and create opportunities, who own their outcomes and then replicate the success in their firm horizontally and vertically.”
– Christian van den Bosch

Meet Christian

I am Christian van den Bosch and I have been fortunate to work with exceptional partners in law firms, other commercial businesses, not-for-profits and the military. I offer business-of-leadership development, through coaching, advisory and consultancy services. I specialise in building strategically performing leadership teams for law firms. I enjoy working with clients who are ready to commit to investing in qualitative growth and success and change their focus towards the business of law.

Working with me you will

  • Learn to give and build trust and rapport more quickly and sustainably.

  • Plan and make decisions correctly, to get the right results.

  • Affect proactive and supported change in people, clients and profit.

  • Positively impact culture and workplace performance.

  • Build actionable pathways from strategy to accomplishments, with clearly defined milestones, roles and responsibilities.

  • Create your leadership and personal brand aligned with your firm brand, to lead more efficiently.

  • Realise your full personal and business potential by maximising your leadership effectiveness.

  • Enhance the performance, commitment and involvement of your people.

  • Understand problems, create opportunities, own the outcomes and replicate the process to others in your firm.

  • Make new-thinking an integral part of your daily business.

Understand. Own. Replicate.

Why Work With Me?

My biggest point of difference

I am independent, my unique personal qualities and life experiences are my main point of difference. I help my clients learn and adopt new approaches by work with what they already have. I will show you how to shift from technical delivery to business leadership, and find a balance which helps you, your firm, the people you lead and your clients.

This includes a strong commitment to learn and understand people and processes, an ability to genuinely connect and engage, loads of experience and a passion to help find new solutions to enhance business and people performance.

Find out more about me…

In my book ‘The Privilege of Leadership’ you will discover my unique perspective on leadership. You will learn about my journey to find colour, which I started as a black-and-white emerging leader. This book is full of important distinctions and simple solutions that will help you to fully understand, own and replicate your own leadership success.

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What My Clients Say

Some kind words from my respected clients

“Above & Beyond”

Christian is incredibly well versed in all styles of leadership and management and has delivered way above and beyond expectations. Since working with Christian we have noticed a significant increase in team cohesion and overall performance.

Jenny P

“Practical Advice”

Our firm has struggled with staff retention and client satisfaction for the last three years and we had no idea why. Christian saw the problem almost immediately and was able to give us some really easy and practical advice to get us back on track.

Matthew K

“I got a promotion!”

I have been working one on one with Christian for the last six months and have learned how to be a true leader in a style that suits me best. My boss has already recognised my new skills and just offered me a promotion. I’m so happy right now!

Maria G

Unlock the full potential of your people and lead sustainable growth in your firm.

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There’s no time like the present to start a new conversation about how to manage the next phase of growth and success for your business. It’s a fact that the further away we get from this point the less likely you are to take positive action and get the results you REALLY want for your business. So the best thing to do is to start that conversation right NOW!

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Everything I do is tailored to the unique needs of your Firm and your people. To guarantee the quality you deserve, I will invest significant time in you and your Firm, as I do with my current clients.

I ensure I am available for a scoping conversation with you within three working days of first contact. Or alternatively…

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Reach out and book a time with me to secure a spot in my calendar. That way we can work out a plan that specifically suits your needs and I can make sure I am available to deliver exactly what you need and when you need it.

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Shift your focus and achieve your strategic objectives

Understand the link between performance and productivity and unlock massive qualitative and quantitative growth potential in your firm.

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  • Redefine performance and productivity, to increase profit margins.

  • Deliver excellence better

  • Enhance understanding and appreciation from your clients.

  • Reduce the day-to-day management of others
  • Create an incredible opportunity for exponential business growth.