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Every year, law firms put enormous effort into their Partner promotion rounds. Panels are organised, business plans drafted, presentations rehearsed, and an entire ecosystem of candidates, sponsors and firm leaders fixes on a single high-stakes moment: the assessment.

For the lawyers and other professionals who I coach, the start of a new year often brings a familiar pressure: set goals, stick to them and deliver! Yet many of us jump straight into drafting objectives without doing the essential groundwork.