19 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Mentoring Tips [2] Work Hard to Visualize the Right Future

Your future will be very complicated. Lots of people, technology and constant change. If you have a mentor use them to help develop a good looking scenario for yourself. When we have the right images in our minds we’ve gotten to first base. Only then can we continue around the bases to develop the know [...]

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13 December 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Tie Off All the Bleeders

In a chat with a surgeon this past weekend I heard phrase in the title for the first time. It essentially suggests that when a surgeon is doing a tricky procedure after they cut open the patient but before doing the essential work they reduce the risk of surprise bleeding. They tie off all the [...]

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13 July 2010 ~ 4 Comments

Memo to Young Lawyers

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 [...]

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30 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Refocus Daily

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 [...]

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18 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Most Coaching is Persistence and Cajoling

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 [...]

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27 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Create a Recognition Profile to Know How to Motivate

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 [...]

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17 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

“Let’s find a less painful way to get that outcome”

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 [...]

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