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The Resilient Lawyer Project – How to enhance recruiting and coaching of ambitious and resilient lawyers. We have created a psychometric test that helps HR & Managers to understand individual needs to increase team efficiency by reducing stress and burnout.
Exhaustion – i.e. early stage stress and burnout – is very unevenly distributed among business lawyers. 25% of the associates report 215% higher exhaustion than the remaining 75%.**Â
20% of the consultant firms’ juniors fits into the profile of this persona.Â
Higher risk of burnouts compared to average
30% of the consultant firms’ juniors fits into the profile of this persona.Â
Higher risk of burnouts compared to average
30% of the consultant firms’ juniors fits into the profile of this persona.Â
Lower risk of burnouts compared to average
20% of the consultant firms’ juniors fits into the profile of this persona.
Lower risk burnouts compared to average
** The data comes from an unpublished study of 250+ associates in three Swedish business law firms by Jens Näsström, which was concluded in January 2020.
“Despite the importance of resilience for attorneys and clients, lawyers have notoriously low levels of resilience. Larry Richard, a psychologist and former trial lawyer who has studied attorney personality traits extensively, reports that 90% of attorneys score below average in resilience.”
Kiser, R. (2017). Soft skills for the effective lawyer. Cambridge University Press. Page 92.
With ambitionprofile managers get great guide-lines to improve efficiency, work-life balance and reduce stress & burnout in their team. Build a sustainable workplace that brings the best out of everyone!
The organizational DNA of law firms is not helping anxious overachievers escape stress & burnout. Cultural settings such as; Up or out, Competition for partnership, Working with other successful individuals, type-A personalities, etc., amplifies stress for anxious overachievers.
Because of the difficulties in accepting and internalizing successes, anxious overachievers tend to be uncomfortable with positive feedback; it does align well with their struggling self-esteem. This internalizing is a big reason for stress & burnout.
Working in the firm is a big part of identity for an anxious overachiever. It is also a big part of their sense of worth. Despite their strong CV, their low self-esteem makes them feel like fakes, and they harbor deep doubts that they will not be able to make it somewhere else, which increases stress & burnout.
Not all are equally equipped to handle pressure. Get to know your team members and understand who are leaders and who is struggling to keep up so that you help everyone with stress & burnout-related illness.
Ambitionprofile is a screening tool that divides high performers into four different personas. Using our personas is an excellent way of understanding and changing dynamics in a workplace to reduce stress & burnout, increase efficiency and create a more sustainable work environment.
While insecure overachievers may perform exceptionally well at the beginning of their job position, they tend to increasingly struggle as time wears on and score substantially worse on most of the critical HR metrics such as:
If you are interested in ambitionprofile, we would be happy to get you and your team going with our tool. Fill in your email below, and we will contact you shortly!
