August 30, 2010 – 11:57 am
The way to think about rapport is as an investment. The more one invests in building rapport the more progress they can make in a relationship. As a coach I know that the more I can build rapport with my clients the easier it will be for them to learn about and accept what they [...]
August 24, 2010 – 7:36 pm
Read this interesting note in a novel about India.
‘Being whisked through the tunnels more than twenty yards below the surface of the capital at fifty miles per hour was a great source of pride for the detective - as it was for most Delhiites, some of whom, he suspected, ventured underground just for the [...]
Experienced lawyers have told me repeatedly that law schools miss two very important subjects: marketing yourself and how to get off to a good start in the first year of law firm employment.
Law firms are very concerned with integrating newly minted lawyers into the organization. But do those new lawyers know what they need to [...]
April 26, 2010 – 11:55 am
You may have heard the line “snatch victory from the jaws of defeat”. It something many people try to do when they test limits. They may do it in relationships to see how far they can go or with time management when they see how late they can leave a project. I think people are [...]
February 27, 2010 – 1:08 pm
I learned about this terrific idea recently. As part of hiring people and then through the performance review process create a list of ways that they like to be motivated. The biggest part of this is asking them from time about what motivates them. Then when the time comes you’ll know what should work.
This [...]
February 17, 2010 – 9:13 pm
I thought this to be a wonderful idea about how coaches help their clients. See my posts of 12/14/09 and 12/21/09 for more about what coaches do. This thought came from Kathrin Krönig who is an executive coach in Germany and Canada.
Quite often with meeting and relationship issues we muddle thru to an OK result. [...]
February 9, 2010 – 4:23 pm
Recalculating when change occurs is a kind of emothional intelligence.
January 29, 2010 – 10:26 pm
I’ve been reading recently about Gary Hart who tried to be President in the 80’s. He did well but never got past the primaries. Anyway he came from pretty humble beginnings and got to the pinnacle of U.S. politics by, to paraphrase his words, opening doors and building walls.
The way he described his rise was [...]
December 23, 2009 – 6:41 pm
I coach many clients around delegation. It comes up when leadership, time managment, business development, work life quality and conflict resolution are the reason for the coaching relationship. There are many reasons that executives don’t delegate as much as they should. Here are four.
1] Anxiety that the delegated project won’t be done well enough and [...]
November 29, 2007 – 8:05 pm
A common time management principle is to do one thing well at a time. For example, every so often you’ll stop into someone’s office who only has one item open on their desk. They seem so organized and productive.
Well it’s quite possible that these people are living the rule ‘do only one [...]
