Building your ADR business part 2 – Defining a Mission Statement

Here is the second part of our Business Development webcast.  Part one is here

These videos serve as stand alone modules looking at vision, mission and goal setting. They also work as brief workshops to accompany the Get Artisan business planner workbooks (Get your copies here) as well as delivering the pre-course work for delegates attending our upcoming two day Business Development programs.  You can book onto a future business development course for mediators and collaborative practitioners at this link.

For now though, enjoy this short video and let us know how you get on with determining mission.

 

Can Get Artisan help me to grow my collaborative law practice?

Yes, but don’t take our word for it.

Here is what Mike Fancher, prominent Washington State collaborative practitioner had to say after attending our recent workshop in Seattle;

“I am a Collaborative attorney, and my wife and I together also manage a small law firm.  When we saw a flyer for Neil Denny’s “Get Artisan” workshop, we recognized immediately that he was offering some new ideas on practice building.  He exceeded our expectations.  Rather than just a marketing idea, Neil brought a whole new way of looking at a legal practice as artisans of the law.  We believe we can use this philosophy to help our practice stand out from the crowd.  The evening after the workshop we began making plans for increasing a sense of artisanship within our firm.”

Mike Fancher of SeattleDivorceServices.com

Thank you Mike for the feedback.  It was a pleasure to be of service to you and to your firm.

You can sign up now for our upcoming business development workshops in New York, Toronto, Waterloo and Chicago. Full details and limited early bird prices can be found HERE

Get Artisan speaks to mediators at leading dispute resolution conference

You can watch Neil Denny of Get Artisan deliver a talk for mediators and other dispute resolution professionals at the excellent NWDR conference held in Seattle.

Be sure to leave any comments and sign up for our newsletter so we can keep you informed of future talks and events.

 

Get Niche. Get Busy.

We just had a conversation that reveals one of the instant benefits in going niche when it comes to growing your collaborative law or mediation practice.

We were talking with an up and coming mediator who was feeling rather bewidered about what to do next in order to start getting clients and building a profile – as well as earning an income of course.

“Well, what does your mediation practice look like, once it is up and running?”

“That’s it, you see, I’m not really sure. I think I know what it does not look like.”

“Okay, that’s a start. Tell me about what it is not?”

“I don’t think it is a public funded, legal aid practice. Is it bad to say that?”

“Good grief no.  It’s your practice.  You can make it whatever you want.  So, if it is not a legal aid or state funded practice, what is it instead?”

Get Artisan to deliver plenary at leading dispute resolution conference

University of Washington where Get Artisan will be presenting their business development model for dispute resolution professionals this Easter

Get Artisan™ is thrilled to be confirmed as one of the opening plenaries for the excellent NorthWest Dispute Resolution conference at the Unversity of Washington, Seattle this Easter weekend.

We have set out our notes below which serve as a summary of the thinking behind the Get Artisan

Who wants more work?

 

Who wants better work?

 

These are easy questions.

It is just the answers that are more difficult.

What Minecraft tells us about business development

Something terrible has happened. 

The desire to craft cannot be denied.

Because we are so busy here at Get Artisan™, we have stumbled across the highly addictive video game phenomenon MineCraft.  We need it like a hole in the head.  It is a complete time sink.

If you have escaped its evil grasp so far;

• do not go to www.mojang.com
• do not sign up for an account; and
• do not, under any circumstances download the free demo.

Get back, instead, to designing, building and crafting the dispute resolution practice of your dreams.

(Note: Get Artisan is currently focussing on dispute resolution professionals but please, read on even if you are not in this sector.  This stuff still applies to you too)

Beating overwhelm helps you grow your mediation and collaborative practice

Managing overwhelm requires us to find ways to manage uncertainty. Find out how.

Get Artisan is all about helping you to grow your mediation, collaborative law or dispute resolution practice.  One way we do that is by delivering webinars to help you overcome challenges you face.

Our latest webinar looks at the question of managing overwhelm.

Many mediators and collaborative practitioners struggle to build their business because they complain of having too much to do.

Very often, the sense of having too much to do is an illusion or can, at least be managed.

When we are able to implement systems that protect us from becoming overwhelmed then we are able to do the stuff we have to do  quicker and more effectively.

The result?

We steal back the time that is taken through inefficiency, uncertainty and bewilderment and we can now commit this reclaimed time to growing our mediation practice or developing our collaborative law skills and client base.

You can watch the video here.

Be sure to sign up here for details of future free webinars and other events.

Vigorous rampage and growing your business

That is what we want to see for your business, Vigorous Rampage, whatever line you are in.

Let’s take a mediator, for example, working out of a small city.

Maybe you do 10-15 mediations a year as part of your otherwise conventional law practice.  You’re pretty pleased with that. After all it was only a couple of years since you trained and you’ve been busy building systems and profile, networking and all that jazz, right?  Well done.  But it is neither vigorous nor is it a rampage.

And you know that.

What would constitute vigorous rampage to you?

Get Artisan Webcast #5 – Autonomy and growing your business

If you are going to see growth then you need to find autonomy, self-direction and self-leadership.

In this fifth and final webcast introducing the Get Artisan™ skills based model for growing your dispute resolution practice.  We wrestle with some of the resistance that the sense of autonomy might arous and we also share how we primed the autonomy pump and then watched that initial investment gather momentum.

In the words of one of our Get Artisan coaching clients talking about her own developing business;

” It feels so exciting. A bit like it’s taking on a life of its own, but still exciting.”

Watch the video and tell us what you think.

 

Get Artisan is currently focusing on helping dispute resolution practitioners to grow their practice into sustainable and rewarding organisations that will serve their clients as well as providing income, provision and fulfilment for themselves and their own families.  We do this through building and sharing with the Get Artisan community here on the blog, at the Facebook page and at the thriving LinkedIn group, through workshops, keynotes and one to one coaching services.

 

Get Artisan workshops – Build Your Own ADR Business

Get Artisan are thrilled to have been selected by the New York Peace Institute and the University of Waterloo to deliver crucial “Build your own ADR practice” workshops.

We will be in New York on the 3rd and 4th of May.  Details and booking can be found here.

We will then be in Toronto on the 6th and 7th of May before going onto Waterloo on the 10th and 11th of May.  Details and booking can be found here.

 

Early bird and super early bird prices (for the first 8 delegates at each venue) are available so don’t delay.

 

You will learn and develop

• A better understanding of what niche you would like to pursue
• Identify your ideal client and target market
• New and creative ways to market to your target market
• New and creative ways to build relationships with your target market
• Finding value in your work and getting paid for that value!

You will take away

• Strategies and tactics for building a referral network
• Methods for creating and distributing valuable content that will convert readers into supporters into referrers
• New approaches to business and self development challenges within the dispute resolution field
• Confidence, resilience, excitement and sustainable focus and determination long after the event to implement your own business development strategy

 

We know how hard it is to keep going it alone, and that is why we are bringing communities of only the very most committed mediators, collaborative practitioners and dispute resolution professionals.  We know that as any one of us grows, so too does the whole movement.

Are YOU ready to play your part and see YOUR dispute resolution practice truly take off?