Partners: what specific skills/mindsets and wins do you need to see in directors to think they will be good partner material?

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Perform the job like you own it. Manage pipeline, revenue, margin. Place your bets wisely on where to play in the market. Be the person the client calls first. Take care of your people. Coach and promote as many of them as possible. Get sponsors behind your case. Have fun with it all and be likeable.

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Sponsors are a key message here. I’ve seen good people struggle to make partner because they either worked for too few (non-sponsor material partners) or too many people (not enough interaction with any single partner). At a certain point you need to focus on who your potential sponsors are and ensure you are being set up for success and progression.

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People development and leadership skills - they build and grow a team of peers down to new associates of people who want to work with and for them. Those people on that cross-client team are high performers. The director makes good people great.
Clients like to work with them, confide in them, trust them, and buy work from them.
Technical skills are table stakes.
Networks internally with peers and partners across service/product lines.
Innovative thinking to the development and delivery of services.

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AM1- raw sales is a powerful helper. I’ve seen a couple of weasels like you described get promoted. It may be more common in some practices than others. They ultimately didn’t make it and left or were terminated because nobody can stand working with them. That’s the red flag that stops most from getting promoted. But if you can actually sell huge deals (not just try to take credit for one) you have a good chance. It’s not all sales, it’s a basket of skills. I left out “don’t be a risk management issue”.

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It’s not that complex. It’s sales.

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I’m finding more and more that clients want the sales partner to also be involved in delivery and technical.

My senior partners may be all about sales and relationships but line partners are finding that clients want more than being wined and dined by a partner and giving sales pitches.

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Set your own agenda - as a partner you can’t be waiting for someone to tell you what to do. You need to know how you are being measured and figure out how and what you are going to do to achieve your goals. You should have the client relationships, skills, and followership to get where you want to go.

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