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 [...]
I’ve been wanting and trying to lose weight. My regimen includes daily exercise including the very difficult ‘pushing my plate away’ and weighing myself every morning. I admit to a competitive mentality so I like to get the score on my weight each morning to see if I’m winning. More importantly weighing in each day [...]
A client said to me “I’m finally making myself deal with it in an appropriate manner”. As a coach my job is help my clients reach ‘aha’ thoughts and then continue to pressure them to follow through on the ‘aha’. So when a client says they are finally dealing with it I know that the [...]
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 9, 2010 – 1:02 pm
Whether you define ‘win’ as ‘win/win’ or ‘I win’ every meeting you attend ought to be a successful use of your time and the time of the other participants. Here are some ideas to consider.
1. Go into every meeting with an objective. At the very least, at the end of the meeting you should know [...]
December 28, 2009 – 3:22 pm
I got a query from a writer to get some quotes about rapport. Here’s what I wrote back.
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 [...]
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 [...]
December 21, 2009 – 9:03 pm
Here are five more ways a coach can help their clients. Underlying this idea is recognizing that ‘coaching’ is a generic term. These concepts are more specific actions.
6. A coach can be an alarm clock alerting their client that it’s time to do something.
7. A coach can be a beacon by shining a light [...]
