GENERAL CONSULTING
Specialized Services
Consultation to Law Firms & Law Departments
In leading law firms, the best managing partners, in our experience, are not top-down, command-and-control leaders. Instead, they work with the several constituencies that comprise a law firm with a deft recognition of their different needs and responsibilities. Helping leaders develop their abilities and assess the needs of the firm is one of our top priorities.
Law departments, within larger companies, come with their own set of challenges; we assist lawyers and managers to work as professionals within a corporate structure.
What We Offer
Partner Coaching
We work at every level of the firm, including staff. However, we specialize in working with law firm leaders, law department leaders, and equity partners. This includes high potentials, problem partners, and those partners facing important life decisions.
Executive Committee and Practice Leader Coaching
Lawyers need to work together as a team to be successful. Team assessments, coaching, and consultation can often put a team or practice group back on track.
Succession Planning
Choosing the appropriate successor is not an event but a process. From determining if someone has the skill set to helping them take the reins and work with other leaders during the transition, are all important issues to address during a transition.
Off-sites and Partner Meetings
Attorneys want to stay informed, and we provide cutting-edge information about the things lawyers need to know to manage the firm in an organized manner.
An example of recent topics that can serve as the basis for talks or workshops include
Family Business Consultation
“These executives realize something that many family businesses have not: The values, ideals, and a sense of purpose nurtured by the owning family are a potentially vast source of strength and energy for business. A healthy owning family with strong values may be the greatest resource a business can have.”
~Aronoff & Ward, 1992
Family businesses comprise over 80-90 percent of all business enterprises. They account for about 80 percent of new job creation and over 50 percent of GDP in the US alone. About 60 percent of all public companies in the US are family-owned, and they make up about 37 percent of the Fortune 500.
Typically, a family business is defined as a business in which a single-family controls the company’s ownership.
What We Offer
Individual Coaching
Whether it is the founder, a successor, or a newly joined family member, coaching utilizes assessment tools and one-on-one meetings to help individuals thrive in the business and at home.
Organizational Development
Our organizational development will ensure that the talents of family members are used most effectively.
Career Coaching
Career coaching is for those who are thinking of entering or leaving the family business
Family Councils
Family councils are for the creation and management of a non-business forum to help the family understand and manage its significant assets, including the business.
Partnership Charters
A charter is a document, created through a mediated process, that enables people working closely together to establish rules and norms to help them avoid serious conflict and ensure success.
Exit Planning
Helping business owners consider their options for exiting their business with maximum returns and minimal disruption to their business.
Our Specialty
As professionals with a background in both business consulting and family dynamics, Sirkin Advisors provides help to families in business by focusing on the issues where the family is stuck, helping to resolve these issues, and getting the business, and the family, to move to other challenges. We provide many related services as well.
Typical Family business Problems
Cyber Immunity
Dr. Sirkin is among the country’s first “cyberpsychologists,” meaning he has a deep understanding of how people interact with technology. Through his relationship with ACP, he brings cyber assessments, education and awareness, and tools to protect a company and its employees from all forms of cyber infection and attack. He specializes in helping companies develop a strategy to ensure cyber immunity.
Cyber Immunity
Dr. Sirkin is among the country’s first “cyberpsychologists,” meaning he has a deep understanding of how people interact with technology. Through his relationship with ACP, he brings cyber assessments, education and awareness, and tools to protect a company and its employees from all forms of cyber infection and attack. He specializes in helping companies develop a strategy to ensure cyber immunity.
What We Offer
Cyber Immunity Assessments
We have the ability to evaluate threats at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
Education & Awareness
Insider threats, whether due to maliciousness or lack of knowledge, or carelessness, account for most cyber vulnerability. We provide specific tools to deal with each of these specific threat vectors.
Cyber Stewardship
The best cyber defense begins with a top down strategy. Cyber protection is not an IT problem or even an HR problem; it begins at the C-Suite or even the Board room.
Cyber Immunity Challenges We Solve
We can assess and ameliorate risks resulting from:
Our Specialty
The term “cyber” often leads people to think of technology, security, and the complexities of the modern work environment. Repeated studies demonstrate, however, that human factors – when, where, and how people interface with technology – account for 80-90% of cyber problems. The reasons may be simple or complex, but contributing factors may include: Lack of information, lack of education and awareness, lack of attention or focus by the users, or personality factors which sometime affect how people approach technology. Nor is the threat itself stable, as cyber criminals continue to evolve new ways to infect systems either through sophisticated methods of attack or by playing to the psychological vulnerabilities of users.