Skills, technique, and attitude: the perfect balance?

Perfect balance

Less and less, eh?Yes. The gadgets.Oh.Fantastic. My son would go crazy with this.

Me too, still.No, it's true.The eternal child. So, technical competence and aptitude:The perfect balance? For me, without a doubt, absolutely yes.

In the legal sector, technical expertise is assumed and taken for granted because you have to be a good lawyer at a high level corporate level, because the company relies on you and your technical knowledge.

However, in my opinion, it is one of the two components or ingredients that you need to have in order to give a service to a company as is expected today.

Today, corporate lawyers are much more present than they were in the past.

When you knew the law firm, you went to the law firm.

Now, the corporate lawyer has to support business objectives and targets,understand them and have a very positive approach.and this positive attitude is essential in order to complete projects, to be seen as a fully-fledged business partner,to support negotiations.

And this, in my opinion, is the key to the outcome.

When I look for teams, when I've been recruiting, or even when I've been mentoring the team I had, I definitely studied the person based on these two things components, what needs to be improved on both sides,because it's a bit of both that makes an excellent professional,at an individual level and also at a team level, because then you have to look at the team as a whole, and also weigh up the shortcomings that each person has in this balance at a collective level, at the level of project distribution or at the level of how one approaches the company.

Perhaps there is someone who is very technically competent in certain areas or another person who has a great relationship with that department, so you also know how to distribute tasks based on how they are.

This brings us back to spending time with the teams, because if you don't know them, obviously this is very difficult.

And it also brings us back to motivation, because when a person does things in a certain way, it is because they have a reason for doing so more naturally, and therefore focus on projects where their personal skillset is more genuine, more spontaneous for them, it's obvious that it's easier and a greater incentive for them too.

The technical skills part is always difficult when you don't know the person and you have to decide whether they are part of the team or not.

In the legal profession, it is assumed, when you come from certain law firms, because these law firms are already known to have trained you in a certain way,a methodology, so this is quite easy.

However, there are many competent lawyers who do not necessarily come from large law firms.and therefore you maybe missing out on an opportunity.

There, perhaps in slightly more junior roles, what I do It is a technical test.

Technical tests are,perhaps more commonly used in marketing or in the fashion industry, including design.

Obviously, it's not a 100% guarantee, but it does allow you to see how a person thinks.

And in the end, attitude is in the small details in interviews where you see the person.

Yes, also to avoid having all clones, right?Yes, yes.

The part about clones is something I learned during my first hiring experiences.

We have this natural tendency to make selections based on who we are,Because you feel more comfortable with profiles that are similar to yours.

And that's the worst thing you can do.I learned this over time and mentored my teams when they in turn were the ones doing the hiring, because it's not easy.

It's the most natural thing there is.And deciding to hire people who are different from us generates an essential team diversity, and it also allows you to evolve as a professional who is also dedicated to managing people and teams as a whole.

Because these are the very people who can challenge you or push you to do something.

To be able to tell you things from from a different point of view than you would see things.

So, to find balance You have to find the perfect balance, like this.