Communications trouble? Maybe it’s you!

I’m pleased to share an article written by Annetta Wilson, one of the communications experts who will be leading the upcoming teleseminar Cut Through Communications Chaos. Have you ever tried to have a conversation with a colleague or client only to discover that you’re talking at cross-purposes, with no middle ground you can [...]

Are you suffering from communications chaos?

Lawyers rely on good communications skills. Whether it’s in writing or in person, how well a lawyer communicates will have a significant impact on her career success. We spend a lot of time learning how to make effective, persuasive oral presentations in the context of practice, but what about day-to-day communications? These [...]

By the way… What IS coaching?

I had an interesting conversation this weekend with a group of friends and colleagues about what I’m doing now. Although I’m still practicing law part-time (with no desire to stop, honestly), coaching — and specifically, coaching lawyers — has taken the prize as my top pursuit. So I’ve told these folks about the [...]

2007 Executive Coaching Survey results published

Sherpa Coaching LLC has published the results of its 2007 Global Coaching Survey. The full results, available here, reveal some interesting information about executive coaching.
Value of coaching
This report discusses the survey results concerning the value of coaching. 44% of survey respondents ranked the value of coaching as “very high,” and another 46% ranked [...]

Business Impact of Executive and Leadership Coaching

Since coaching is still a relatively new profession, having been around only since the 1990s, there isn’t much in the way of data to back up coaching’s claim to effectiveness. As a lawyer myself, particularly as a lawyer with some scientific training, that’s been troubling to me. I know coaching works because I’ve [...]