Consultancy firm the Professional Career Partnership (PCP) is shortly to file a final report on its work with the team after it was hired last year to provide one-on-one sessions with partners, examining their goals and performance.
Meetings with partners involved discussions about personal career planning and practice development.
Although it does not use the term ‘life coaching’, PCP’s website says: “Significant and sustainable change often requires a more individual, longer-term and work-based development process such as coaching.”
PCP is led by Jonathan Macfarlane, who was a partner at Macfarlanes. The BLP consultation is being led by Jayne Welsh, formerly senior personnel manager at Allen & Overy.
In addition to working with individual partners, the group is understood to be reporting on ways to address issues such as billing and lawyer resourcing on transactions.
One partner at the firm told Legal Week it now looked likely that the initiative would be rolled out across the firm.
