Thank you for participating in the workshop, “Recruiting, Retaining and Engaging Young Professionals in Law Firms and Legal Departments”. I thought I’d share my research with you. I found these studies, articles and books helpful in creating the session on engagement. At the end of the list, I’ve provided additional resources related to leadership in law firms. If you are looking for a speaker or consultant in the areas of leadership, management, engagement or business development, please call me to discuss your ideas. I’d love to help.
Mark Beese
www.leadershipforlawyers.com
mark@leadershipforlawyers.com
Studies
Millennials: Not Attached to Employers or Institutions (Gallup)
How Millennials Want to Work and Live (Gallup)
Breaking Monotony with Meaning: Motivation in Crowdsourcing Markets (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)
White Paper: Retaining & Advancing Women in National Law Firms (Stanford)
Millennials Surpass Gen Xers as the Largest Generation in the US Labor Force (Pew Research)
The 2016 Deloitte Millennial Survey – Executive Summary (Deloitte)
The 2017 Deloitte Millennial Survey (Deloitte)
2015 Employee Engagement Landscape Study: Championing Greatness or Capturing Mediocrity (PWC)
2016 Employee Engagement & Loyalty Statistics
2017 Employee Engagement and Loyalty Statistics
Articles on Engagement
Declining Employee Loyalty: A Casualty of the New Workplace – Wharton
Millennials Disconnected from Employers and Institutions
The US Chairman of PwC on Keeping Millennials Engaged – HBR
What Do Millennials Actually Want From the Workplace?
What Facebook Knows About Engaging Millennial Employees
How to be a Company that Employees Love – HBR
How to Be the Boss without Being the B-word (Bossy) – CCL
IDEO’s Employee Engagement Formula – HBR
The Right Kind of Stress Can Bond Your Team Together – HBR
Engaging Your Employees is Good, but Don’t Stop There – HBR
Two Sides of Employee Engagement – HBR
Employee Engagement Does More Than Boos Productivity – HBR
The Intangible Things Employees Want from Employers – HBR
What Amazing Bosses Do Differently – HBR
How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation – HBR
How Corporate Culture Affects the Bottom Line – Duke
What it Really Takes to Attract Top Talent – HBR
Creating the Best Workplace on Earth – HBR
The Best Law Firms to Work for: Biglaw “Quality of Life” Rankings – Above the Law
Six Companies that Get Employee Engagement – and What they Do Right – CMI (UK)
Books
Be The Boss Everyone Wants to Work For: A Guide for New Leaders (CCL) – William Gentry
What Millenials Want From Work: How To Maximize Engagement in Today’s Workforce (CCL) – Jennifer Deal and Alec Levenson
Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through The Science of Total Motivation – Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor
You Raised Us – Now Work with Us: Millennials, Career Success and Building Strong Workplace Team – Lauren Stiller Rikleen
Ladder Down: Success Strategies for Lawyers from Women Who Will be Hiring, Reviewing and Promoting You – Lauren Stiller Rikleen
Getting Clients: For Lawyers Starting Out or Starting Over – Merrilyn Astin Tarlton
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t – Bob Sutton
(see also “Why I Wrote the No Asshole Rule Book – Sutton) HBR
Leadership and Law Firms
Leadership In Law Firms – CCL – Nick Petrie
The Changing Nature of Leadership in Law Firms – CCL, Roland Smith and Paul Marrow
Herding Cats – Larry Richard
Herding Cats – Video
Leadership Isn’t Management – Mark Beese
The Law Firm as Learning Organization – Mark Beese
Four Necessary Leadership Skills – Mark Beese
Growth Mindset/Learning
Carol Dweck on the Growth Mindset (TED)
Carol Dweck Revisits the “Growth Mindset”
How Companies Can Profit from a “Growth Mindset” – Harvard Business Review
Honing Your Humility: An Antidote for Big Egos – Mark Beese
How to Keep Learning and Still Have A Life – Harvard Business Review
How to Scale Up Excellence in an Organization – Bob Sutton (Video)
Storytelling
Denning – A guide to storytelling – Stephen Denning
Persuasion
What is Your Persuasion Quotient? – Mark Beese
Scarf Model for Persuasion – David Rock
Resiliency
Personal Resiliency – Mark Beese
Developing a Strong Leader Network
A Leaders Network – CCL – Phil Willburn and Kristin Cullen
Generational Leadership – Millennials
Managing Millennials – Mark Beese
Followership
What Every Leader Needs to Know About Followers – Harvard Business Review – Barbara Kellerman
Leadership Videos