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Beth Pipe
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What is Continuous Improvement?
What is Continuous Improvement?
Practice Notes

This Practice Note explains what Continuous Improvement (CI) is and how it can be used to improve efficiency in a legal department context.

What is leadership?
What is leadership?
Practice Notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe of OnLive Learning, attempts to get under the skin of leadership, understand what it is and how it differs from management and identify the key behaviours of great leaders.

What makes a great leader?
What makes a great leader?
Practice Notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe of OnLive Learning, considers what makes a great leader and introduces five key skills that enable leaders to get the best out of themselves and their teams.

Who are you looking to recruit?
Who are you looking to recruit?
Practice Notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe of OnLive Learning, deals with key recruitment issues such as do you need to recruit at all, who should your recruit and how to recruit the right person.

Absence strategy effectiveness audit
Absence strategy effectiveness audit
Precedents

This Precedent audit tool, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, can be used to help you assess the effectiveness of your absence management strategy.

Absence/leave request form—law firms
Absence/leave request form—law firms
Precedents

This Precedent absence/leave request form, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, can be used as part of a manual process for requesting and authorising employee absence/leave.

Assessing unconscious bias questionnaire—law firms
Assessing unconscious bias questionnaire—law firms
Precedents

This Precedent questionnaire can be completed by managers and partners to help identify unconscious bias. The findings should raise awareness of unconscious bias within your firm and can be used to stimulate discussion around diversity and inclusion (D&I).

Attendance review meeting (ARM) plan—law firms
Attendance review meeting (ARM) plan—law firms
Precedents

This Precedent, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, is intended for law firms. It can be used to help you plan and prepare for an attendance review meeting (ARM) and to ensure you have all the information you need to conduct an ARM consistently and effectively.

Attendance review meeting (ARM) record—law firms
Attendance review meeting (ARM) record—law firms
Precedents

This Precedent, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, is intended for law firms. It can be used to document the key points discussed during an attendance review meeting (ARM). It will help you ensure a consistent and structured approach to all ARMs.

Attendance review meetings (ARMs)—FAQs—law firms
Attendance review meetings (ARMs)—FAQs—law firms
Precedents

This Precedent, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, is intended to accompany a letter notifying an employee of an attendance review meeting. Periodic attendance review meetings are an integral part of managing long-term sickness where an employee has been absent from work for an extended period of time (usually more than four–weeks’ duration).

Balanced scorecard: partnership promotion criteria
Balanced scorecard: partnership promotion criteria
Precedents

This Precedent Balanced scorecard: partnership promotion criteria, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe of OnLive Learning, can be used to help assess whether an individual meets your firm’s partnership promotion criteria and can therefore be considered for partnership. It offers a holistic approach to leadership development and ensures you consider both quantitative and qualitative measures.

Business asset register
Business asset register
Precedents

This Precedent Business asset register can be used to record all the assets an organisation owns, eg land, buildings, office equipment, manufacturing equipment, computer software, intellectual property, trademarks etc. Maintaining such a register will help an organisation formulate long- and short-term plans, prevent fraud, comply with any maintenance or servicing requirements and save costs.

Business case for learning and development
Business case for learning and development
Precedents

This Precedent Business case for learning and development (L&D) can be used to set out the business case for any planned L&D activities to demonstrate its contribution to the bottom line. This is necessary both to gain initial investment and to demonstrate its ongoing value to the firm.

Checklist for meeting external training consultants
Checklist for meeting external training consultants
Precedents

This Precedent Checklist for meeting external training consultants contains a list of questions and prompts to help you gather information before formally engaging them.

Claims register
Claims register
Precedents

This Precedent claims register can be used to keep a record of any ongoing claims against the business and keep track of your litigation risks. You might wish to consider adding to a separate risk register any individual or aggregated claims that could pose a risk to the business, eg due to value or the potential for reputational damage.

Compliance breach register
Compliance breach register
Precedents

This Precedent Compliance breach register is designed to help you keep a record of compliance breaches in your organisation. The register forms part of our risk management suite of documents. You should consider adding to your separate risk register any compliance breaches that could pose a risk to the business, either individually or as a pattern or trend.

Core skills framework—law firms
Core skills framework—law firms
Precedents

This Precedent framework is intended for law firms. It sets out suggested core skills that apply to each role within the firm. Having a central framework of core skills helps to achieve transparency and consistency in our expectations of performance for different roles within the firm. Where relevant, this Precedent reflects the SRA’s Competence Statement.

Diversity & inclusion (D&I) manager—law firms—role profile
Diversity & inclusion (D&I) manager—law firms—role profile
Precedents

This Precedent role profile is for a diversity & inclusion (D&I) manager in a law firm. This role profile follows the format of the other role profile Precedents in subtopic: Recruitment and retention.

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) action plan—law firms
Diversity and inclusion (D&I) action plan—law firms
Precedents

This Precedent action plan can be used to set out what a law firm wants to achieve from a diversity and inclusion (D&I) perspective and how each objective will be achieved, by whom and by when. These objectives should support the firm’s overall strategy and objectives.

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) objectives and key performance indicators—law firms
Diversity and inclusion (D&I) objectives and key performance indicators—law firms
Precedents

This Precedent can be used to document a law firm’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) objectives, firm-wide or individual key performance indicators (KPIs) for partners and the management team and track progress against targets.

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