I’ve often struggled to spend enough time developing team members.

It’s something I genuinely enjoy, and which I think is super important. Yet… I didn’t do enough of it.

Here’s a typical example:

A team member does a bit of work (in our case often a first mark-up of a routine contract)
I make a few tweaks
I promise myself to sit down later with the team member and explain the ‘why’
I then disappoint the team and myself by not making good on that

I tried writing the feedback as I was doing the work. This was better, at least I ended up doing it.

But it was surprisingly time-consuming. Especially when I don’t want to come across as rude (I tend to worry about that a lot, one of the issues I’m working on 😵‍💫 !)

Anyway, last year I finally cracked it.

In short, I use a super easy screen recording tool called Loom. Takes literally 5 seconds to start a recording and share the link with your team member after.

So as I make the fixes I can just talk out loud about why I’m making the changes (I just hit pause in between, when I want to think). The team member can then watch it in their own time.

I’ve shared an example of what that looks like below. We review a lot of contracts for in-house legal teams, so that’s the example I used - but I think it should work with other work too!

Anyway, give it a go!

Lexoo (Legal Services + Tech) - Watch Loom Demo

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P.S. If you need help with any of these things, we’d love to help out :-)

Commercial contract review: fixed fees + fast turnarounds. Work done by our in-house lawyers
Contract playbook solution: get a custom playbook that lives in LexPlay (a smart MS Word plug-in). Train up new and junior lawyers to a high and consistent standard
Multi-country and repapering projects: such as localising T&Cs, employment contracts, answering regulatory questionnaires as well as Data Protection remediation (SCCs etc)

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