Looking after yourself and the client
I think emotional wellbeing at work is very important. It’s important for colleagues, it’s important for the clients that you deal with and it is important for yourself as well.
And for me a lot of it relates to energy levels because if our, you know, emotional wellbeing will affect the energy levels that individuals will have and that will affect how much they can cope with in a day, how much emotional resilience they will build up and how they can manage their lives outside of work alongside their lives within work.
Some legal professionals focus on meeting client expectations at the expense of their own wellbeing. It is really important to put in place strategies to prevent yourself from feeling overwhelmed by these expectations and to manage the pressures involved. In the long term, doing this will benefit both you and your clients as you will be well enough to represent them as effectively as possible and, as such, looking after yourself is necessary and important to looking after your clients.
2.3 Managing client expectations