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Use These Drugs When Stressed
It may not be readily obvious, but you are a drug user. If you’re not ingesting substances (which I hope you aren’t), you are releasing them inside your body. This message is geared to what happens inside your body because I don’t know squat about the other kind. So...
Quit Working Two Jobs
Over the years of coaching hundreds like you, I’ve noticed the importance of your decision-making to your career success. What used to work and be appropriate may not be sufficient now. For instance, each time you assume a new role and responsibilities, you have the...
Don’t Assume They Know
Coaching calls this week seemed to have a common theme. It’s one that you know well because it’s in your firm, too. A senior manager was concerned about a staff person’s poor attitude toward a client. A partner dealing with a high-functioning professional with a poor...
Is The Problem Out There Or In Here?
During a recent coaching conversation I had with a partner, he listed all the things that weren’t going well. Some of his complaints were common among other partners in other firms. Some were specific to his firm or his situation. The Golden Insight About half way...
Stress Can Be Your Friend
You and I have been misled. Sorta. We have been told that stress is bad for you, causing all kinds of problems, illnesses and disease. The research and studies over the years seem to have validated this belief. But what we didn’t know until recently is that stress is...
Be A World-Changer
When you believe your work matters and your clients depend on you for your best work, you enter into a level of energy, drive and fulfillment that will change your life and change the world.
Technical Training Doesn’t Teach You This
Develop the knowledge and skills that your technical training doesn’t prepare you for that determines your value, success and career fulfillment.
Frustration Isn’t Always Bad
Frustration can motivate you to action or depress you to apathy. You decide.
Your Development Plan Of Value
As a professional, you get paid for the value you provide. Your career is marked by increasing value when you combine technical and non-technical skills.
Make Your Work Fit You
Last week I facilitated the Leadership and Firm Development Conference and came away encouraged that firm leaders are taking note of and responding to the human needs of themselves and their people. To open the conference, I asked attendees to rate themselves, on a...
