Helping lawyers, accountants & consultants to build the mindset and skills to make it to partner. Build your "partner-ready" skills
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Join Progress to Partner Academy to get the answer to your questions:
What exactly are the partners looking for? And just what is the process to get promoted?
How am I meant to hit my billable hours target AND find the time to win my own clients and build a team?
How big does your client portfolio need to be to get onto Partner Track?
How on earth can you get out from under your partners’ shadow to win your own work and get noticed?
Have you noticed people getting noticed by the partners...but you're not one of them?
You’re meeting all your targets and doing a good job…so what else do you need to do?
Tax Director - UK
I would have been a career senior manager if I hadn't signed up to Progress to Partner it seems so obvious now scary how little even the most senior managers in the firm understand how to make partner.
Here’s How to NOT Get Noticed in Your Firm
Keep your head down
Get the work done
Hope you get noticed
Director, Deloitte Australia
I really do wish I had signed up with you earlier, but I am delighted that I made the decision to join Progress To Partner Academy! The Managing Partner said I am a hot topic at partner meetings as they have noticed a huge change in my focus and are receiving excellent feedback from their own contacts."
Stop waiting to be noticed for career development courses by your firm. You may never get chosen for these, so stop relying on them to progress.
Take control of your own career development! Your firm will notice the people who are taking action to learn and develop themselves.
Think it’s too early to start working on your career progression? Think again!
It’s never too early to start preparing for partnership. Why? Because it will take you years to master some of the skills and habits you need to become a partner at your firm. The earlier you start, the stronger candidate you will be. When we get asked this question – “how early should I start preparing for partnership?” – by senior managers or associates, we tell them at least 2-3 years for these two reasons.
If you are not yet a senior associate or manager – so much the better! Use the Progress to Partner Academy to build up your “partner-ready” skills – the partners will notice a high-flying associate or manager who is already showing they know what skills are needed to make partner.
Look at those people – who are not as technically strong as you – but who are progressing faster than you. What are they doing that you are not?
They are taking action! They have quite simply taken control of their own development and their own career progression.
Progress to Partner is the sister-subscription site of How to Make Partner – so can be confident that you are in good hands.
Are you ready to take action to progress your career?
To ensure that you are put on the partner track, start investing in yourself with a Progress to Partner subscription. Get in the driving seat and move your career forward instead waiting to be noticed by your firm.
Making the final step to Partner is HARD - Progress To Partner Academy can help
Progress to Partner - it's the Membership "sister" site of How to Make Partner
Progress to Partner is the subscriber-only website that will give you the knowledge as well as the confidence and the time to make progress in your firm.
You will have checklists, guides, short recordings and self-study courses so that you can focus exactly where it's needed each day, week and month of your career.
“The Progress to Partner Academy will give you the knowledge and the confidence and the time to build your partner-ready skills so you can make progress in your firm.”
You can log-in to work through a self-study course module, read a guide, watch a video and steadily go through the workbooks in the Progress to Partner Academy.
Do this regularly and you will have all the tools you need to be able to progress in your career.
Do this regularly and people will be looking at you, getting ahead and wondering how you are doing it!
You'll have everything you need right there, no need to go down a rabbit-hole searching the entire internet (and not finding what you need).
Want to see how Progress to Partner Academy can help you with networking, winning work and building your client portfolio?
It’s like having a Netflix account for your career
Find what you need to watch or read at the time you need it. Everything you need to know about getting ahead in your career in professional services is there.
All our self-study courses are there - As a Premium Subscriber you'll be able to work through them at your own page, one module at a time
Follow our Game Plans with curated content from all over the site
Watch our Quick Win videos when you only have a few minutes but need some guidance
Premium subscribers can join our monthly live Lunch & Learn Workshops at no extra charge AND can catch up on the recordings at a later date.
Take a Look Inside
Presented below are the screenshots showcasing the Progress to Partner Academy
Game Plan Page
Main Dashboard
On-Demand Courses
Event Recordings
Business Case
Quick Win: Career Progression
Tax - Director
I really do wish I had signed up with you earlier, but I am delighted that I made the decision to join Progress To Partner Academy! The Managing Partner said I am a hot topic at partner meetings as they have noticed a huge change in my focus and are receiving excellent feedback from their own contacts."
Progress to Partner Academy Pricing - What Will You Get?
Why is Progress to Partner Academy the right choice for your Career Development?
It's never too early to start working to build your partner-ready skills. Progress to Partner Game Plans will guide you through the courses. recordings and guidebooks no matter where you are in your career.
Heather Townsend is the leading global expert in what it takes to move from senior fee earner to partner – and when you get there, stay there.
Author of Poised for Partnership, The Financial Times Guide to Business Networking and co-author of How to Make Partner & Still Have a Life as well as The Go-To Expert, Heather Townsend is the leading global expert in what it takes to move from senior fee earner to partner in a professional service firm – and when you get there, stay there.
All our executive coaches have been training and supporting people like you in professional service firms for years. Meet our executive coaches here.
As an annual subscriber, you can use the Progress to Partner Academy for 12 months from the date you subscribe. We will send a reminder email to you before your subscription expires and you will have the opportunity to choose not to renew for a further 12 months If you join as a monthly premium member, you will pay monthly and can cancel your subscription at any time on the Progress to Partner Dashboard.
We can’t guarantee that! The Progress to Partner Academy will give you the knowledge and skills you need to build your partner-ready skills and get noticed but you do need to put the work in to build your skills; reading our guides, watching our videos and working through the self-study courses. This isn’t a quick fix! An annual membership will allow you the time to build your skills slowly and steadily.
Make sure you also attend the Lunch & Learn Workshops (or watch the replays if you have Premium membership)
For even better results, don't hesitate to schedule your private coaching sessions when needed (we have discounted coaching rates for our Premium members)
Of course! You can ask questions in our private subscriber-only Facebook Group or ask questions during our live Lunch & Learn workshops. We’re ready to help!
Let us know if you would like to sign up more than 5 people in your firm at the same time and we will be able to offer you a discount on their annual membership. Find out more about Progress to Partner for your firm here
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Heather Townsend
Heather Townsend is the leading global expert in what it takes to move from senior fee earner to partner – and when you get there, stay there. She regularly runs programmes to help fee earners take the step up to partner, and establish themselves as a new partner, for mid-tier law, accountancy and consultancy firms. It just so happens that she is rather good (and not really that modest either!) in helping individuals successfully market and sell themselves. Just the skills you need when you are aiming to grow your client portfolio AND make it to partner.
In fact, her clients have added over £1 million in fees to their client portfolio in the last year. Heather often works with private clients who want to drive their own career (regardless of the development options offered by their firm) via Progress To Partner Academy. The Academy, membership site helps lawyers, accountants and consultants to:
She is the author of 6 books including ‘How to make partner and still have a life‘ (co-authored with Jo Larbie), ‘Poised for partnership‘, ‘The Financial Times guide to business networking‘ and ‘The Go-To Expert‘. Her books have sold over 20,000 copies globally and been translated into over 6 different languages and attracted over 200 five star reviews on Amazon.Her coaching style has been described as challenging, friendly but very supportive.
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