8 TIPS FOR GOOD LEADERSHIP

In June 2025, I led a session at the City of London Law Society award-winning leadership training programme for LGBTQ lawyers, the LLP!, on my top tips for good leadership.

Brainstorming my prep for the session, I discovered that there are eight of them.

Here they are:

1. Be authentic to your self.

   Which means doing active self-reflection, understanding your values, stengths, weaknesses and vulnerabilities - and having the courage to admit them.

   
   

2. Do some reading.

   Lots of intelligent people have done lots of research on what good leadership looks like and what is more effective in different situations. It's definitely worth diving into some of this. I steered the delegates in the direction of some of the seminal papers by Daniel Goleman.

   
   

3. Adopt the mindset of servant rather than master.

   Your success will be dependant on how well you support the people you are leading and how much they trust you.

   
   

4. Listen more, interrupt less.

   You are probably surrounded by intelligent and talented people. Enable and empower them.

   
   

5. Watch out for inequalities and unspoken power structures.

   Actively seek them out and where you find them, challenge them.

   
   

6. Big other people up.

   Even when it means shrugging off credit that rightly belongs to you.

   
   

7. Challenge consensus.

   Even if you personally agree with it. You are as susceptible to groupthink as everyone else in the team. Make sure you test your conclusions, as they might be wrong.

   
   

8. Lead by example.

   If you are going to talk the talk, walk the walk.

Enjoy!

Clare

Clare Fielding

Coaching • Facilitation • Mediation