In 18 years of coaching I've seen clients shift into more productive and happier lawyers. I've also seen a few clients who reverted back to pre-coaching habits over time. I get it. At some point in our lives, we’ve all been committed to changing our behaviours in some way. We might start out strong, but with [...]
When a colleague tells you to put on your business face before a meeting, I doubt they mean for you to smile broadly. Yet at least one author is suggesting that in business (and other parts of your life), you’ll be more successful with a smile than a grimace. Neil Pasricha is probably most known [...]
The ability to rise in a law firm is – let’s face it – very closely related to productivity. But to move into the real power positions of any organization, including a law firm, you need to show that you can think and act strategically. What would this look like in practice? At a recent [...]
Have you ever been frustrated by not being able to do everything you set out to do in a given day? Einstein might have the answer to your problems. As I’ve mentioned here before, in my coaching practice I predominantly help clients to understand and fix self-sabotage: the many ways in which they are causing their [...]
What does a musical suite have to do with coaching? As the Beattles would say, it's all about a little help from your friends. My clients are very capable and intelligent lawyers, so they don’t engage me because they are unable to run a business. They simply want their efforts to result in a better business. [...]
One wouldn’t think that accomplished professionals lack willpower or discipline. But shockingly, many do. My next few blogs will focus on these obstacles, and how to overcome them. In my executive coaching practice I work with extremely intelligent individuals who have a difficult time with self-discipline. In the book, “Willpower”, by Roy Baumeister and John [...]
Professionals must be in the top 10% of the intelligence level in this country; so why are so many under-satisfied with their career? The answer is easy: getting to it is the hard part. In my coaching practice, I work with type “A” personalities. There’s almost nothing my clients can’t do. They are smart, hard [...]
One of the secrets to helping clients achieve successful outcomes through the business planning or coaching process is to support them in understanding their motivators. These motivators aren’t always what you think they might be. For example, it isn’t always money, prestige or amassing things that holds the key to our passion to achieve. Sometimes, [...]
Here’s a secret about coaching: it is both an art and a science and the science side of it is based in large part on NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming. As you are probably aware, coaching is about growth and development, and that generally means change. If it feels challenging to break an ingrained habit, that’s [...]
Coaching concepts for professionals can come from anywhere and for me, such ideas are frequent inspired by articles or tidbits I read in publications like the Harvard Business Review. For example, in the side bar of a page of a recent edition I found a small article on the importance of sleep to our focus [...]