A simple check-in with powerful outcomes for law firms and chambers
Employee engagement is a big issue in the often solitary, late-night world of law. Our weekly check-in can help your firm become more engaged and productive than ever before.
A simple check-in with powerful outcomes for law firms and chambers
Employee engagement is a big issue in the often solitary, late-night world of law. Our weekly check-in can help your firm become more engaged and productive than ever before.
Proud to help improve employee engagement and optimise performance for dozens of legal clients including:
Build a better culture at your law firm or chambers
With a wealth of research from both business and academia, it's irrefutable that great employee engagement in law firms improves performance and productivity.
As a Partner, Practice Manager of HRD then, it's worrying to know that the legal sector seems to have a widespread issue with employee engagement.
The evidence is quite damning
In late 2018, professional services giant AON published their 'State of Partner & Employee Engagement in the Legal Sector' report. The report looked at employee engagement trends across more than 10,000 legal sector workers around the globe and found the industry had a significant issue.
The research showed that on average only 52% of employees in the sector are engaged. This compares unfavourably with other professional services where on average 59% of employees are engaged (still far lower than it should be). For comparison, in a similar study, IT services had an average 72% engagement rate.
Partners were perhaps not surprisingly the most engaged legal workers at an average of 66%. Associates had the lowest levels of engagement at just 43%.
The evidence is quite damning
In late 2018, professional services giant AON published their 'State of Partner & Employee Engagement in the Legal Sector' report. The report looked at employee engagement trends across more than 10,000 legal sector workers around the globe and found the industry had a significant issue.
The research showed that on average only 52% of employees in the sector are engaged. This compares unfavourably with other professional services where on average 59% of employees are engaged (still far lower than it should be). For comparison, in a similar study, IT services had an average 72% engagement rate.
Partners were perhaps not surprisingly the most engaged legal workers at an average of 66%. Associates had the lowest levels of engagement at just 43%.
Employee engagement for law firms from Weekly10
The Weekly10 platform allows progressive firms and chambers sets to measure, adjust, improve and monitor the engagement of their people through a simple, light-touch weekly check-in.
Honest, open and owned feedback on a regular cadence
One of the key pillars of great employee engagement is open, two-way feedback between managers and their teams. By default our employee check-in is not anonymous (you have flexibility to turn anonymity per question), all answers are shared directly with managers and our comments feature allows for a conversation on any key points.
With studies finding staff want more workplace feedback than they are getting - millennial workers expect feedback to happen weekly, Gen Z even more frequently - and the power of timely feedback in impacting behaviour and performance, we believe a weekly check-in is the right approach for most law firms.
However, with Weekly10 you have the flexibility to set a cadence that is right for your firm's needs. Our team of HR professionals, technologists and psychologists will help you setup a feedback cycle that is perfect for improving engagement within your teams.
Honest, open and owned feedback on a regular cadence
One of the key pillars of great employee engagement for law firms is open, two-way feedback between managers and their teams. By default our employee check-in is not anonymous (you have flexibility to turn anonymity per question), all answers are shared directly with managers and our comments feature allows for a conversation on any key points.
With studies finding staff want more workplace feedback than they are getting - millennial workers expect feedback to happen weekly, Gen Z even more frequently - and the power of timely feedback in impacting behaviour and performance, we believe a weekly check-in is the right approach for most law firms.
However, with Weekly10 you have the flexibility to set a cadence that is right for your firm's needs. Our team of HR professionals, technologists and psychologists will help you setup a feedback cycle that is perfect for improving engagement within your teams.
Question templates
Create your own check-in questions or borrow from our curated question sets. Each set has been built to focus in on a certain area of workplace culture by our team of 'People Scientists'.
Engagement analytics
Our AI-driven sentiment analysis provides you with a unique view on how engagement across the firm is. Deep dive into individual teams, departments or locations to help pinpoint any engagement issues and benchmark what great looks like.
Encourage recognition
'Mentions' allow staff to shine a light on the great work being done around them that leadership may be missing. Unearth your hidden talent, build social links within the firm and boost engagement.
Question templates
Create your own check-in questions or borrow from our curated question sets. Each set has been built to focus in on a certain area of workplace culture by our team of 'People Scientists'.
Engagement analytics
Our AI-driven sentiment analysis provides you with a unique view on how engagement across the firm is. Deep dive into individual teams, departments or locations to help pinpoint any engagement issues and benchmark what great looks like.
Encourage recognition
'Mentions' allow staff to shine a light on the great work being done around them that leadership may be missing. Unearth your hidden talent, build social links within the firm and boost engagement.
Try before you buy?
Our free 21-day trial is a great way to see how a weekly check-in could help improve engagement at your firm.
Performance management for the legal sector from Weekly10
One of the beauties of our simple employee check-in is the rich data it provides for other people-focussed activities, performance being one of the big ones. Use our goal/OKR-setting, performance review and 1:1 features to power up your approach to performance.
Set and achieve with SMART goals or OKRs
No matter your performance management framework of choice, Weekly10 can be configured to help your law firm or chamber track performance across all high-level targets. As part of the weekly check-in, employees not only answer questions targeting key engagement and wellbeing issues but also can provide quick and vital updates on any set goals.
Set and achieve with SMART goals or OKRs
No matter your performance management framework of choice, Weekly10 can be configured to help your law firm or chamber track performance across all high-level targets. As part of the weekly check-in, employees not only answer questions targeting key engagement and wellbeing issues but also can provide quick and vital updates on any set goals.
Performance reviews
8/10 employees say traditional performance reviews don't work. Shake things up with a review that is not only based on real-evidence collected weekly as part of the check-in but only takes a few clicks to create, meaning more time for a meaningful & targetted conversation.
360° feedback
Boost your review process by collecting feedback from those outside of your firm. Gather the thoughts of suppliers, strategic partners and even clients with the simple click of a button.
Performance analytics
Track and analyse the progression of key targets, see where organisational objectives are bottle-necking and 'pass-up' great performance for improved employee visibility.
Performance reviews
8/10 employees say traditional performance reviews don't work. Shake things up with a review that is not only based on real-evidence collected weekly as part of the check-in but only takes a few clicks to create, meaning more time for a meaningful & targetted conversation.
360° feedback
Boost your review process by collecting feedback from those outside of your firm. Gather the thoughts of suppliers, strategic partners and even clients with the simple click of a button.
Performance analytics
Track and analyse the progression of key targets, see where organisational objectives are bottle-necking and 'pass-up' great performance for improved employee visibility.
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Check out these blog articles looking at some key legal sector issues
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Employee engagement in law: Are associates the E.E. ‘middle child’ of the legal sector?
Law careers are often seen as prestigious, usually getting mentioned in the same breath as careers in medicine by hopeful
-
Asynchronous communication in remote work and why it matters
Remote working has really caught on in the past. 5 years, and for a number of reasons (from huge tech
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Remote work in law firms: Top tools to help you work from home
With more organisations every day having to take drastic measures against the spread of COVID-19, those of us with jobs