PARTNERSCOACH
How it worksAssessment
The assessment step is collaborative, drawing on supervisor insights and participant self-awareness. This helps us create a personalized action plan that is tailored to the individual’s career trajectory and the firm’s strategic objectives.
Action Plan
Our action plans are detailed roadmaps to success, marked with clear, quantifiable goals. These plans are co-created with participant and supervisor input, ensuring a collective commitment to the professional’s journey to excellence.
Instruction
The instruction we provide is a mix of pre-session preparation and active engagement. Our learning experiences, whether on-site or virtual, are interactive, designed to elicit robust participation and cultivate the necessary skills for effective team dynamics.
Assignment
The assignments are carefully coordinated to fit into the participants’ existing work responsibilities and schedules, focusing on relevance and practical application. These assignments are designed to bridge the gap between knowledge and action, reinforcing the competencies developed during instruction.
Coaching
Coaching is integral to our approach, with supervisor feedback and personal coaching calls offering a consistent framework for development. This ongoing guidance is essential for reinforcing the lessons learned and for the professional growth of participants.
Evaluation
Evaluation encompasses supervisor, participant, and personal coaching feedback, offering a 360-degree perspective on progress. These evaluations are not isolated but are integrated into mid-year and annual performance reviews, underlining the significance of the skills learned.
Learning Experience Support
LX Support extends the learning journey beyond the structured sessions. Monthly messages keep the goals in focus, and coaching calls with personal coaches provide a forum for tackling challenges and exchanging best practices. Supervisors are oriented not only on the process but on how to facilitate and encourage quality feedback, ensuring the effectiveness of the entire program.
Professionals who have coaches are higher performers than they would be without coaches. When looking for a coach, you should consider the following.
- Someone who knows you, listens to you and believes in you and your potential.
- Someone who leads you to discover yourself, your motivation and your highest value contributions.
- Someone with whom to talk frankly and confidentially about what prevents you from being your best
- Someone who gives you an outside, unbiased viewpoint as you become a high performing professional
- Someone who is a coach by profession with a degree, license and certificate, not someone who tells you how they did it and you should do it the same way.
high performers
Clients of the partnerscoach® are professionals:
- want to increase their personal and professional satisfaction
- are new to the partnership and want to get off to a good start
- want to expand their line of business
- are struggling with their place in the firm
- have read the books, heard the tapes, and attended the seminars, but haven’t been able to integrate what they know into their careers and lives.
THERE’S A BETTER “YOU” TO OFFER.
Philosophy
HVC? What’s That?
HVC stands for Highest Value Contribution. It is the highest level of functioning at which a professional performs, providing the most value to clients and the firm AND experiences great personal satisfaction and professional fulfillment.
When I see partners doing work that someone their junior could be doing, they aren’t contributing at their highest level. When partners are involved in activities that someone else could do (think administration), they aren’t making the kind of contributions they could be making. The time that partners spend with things others could do, they aren’t available to function at their highest levels. In fact, partners actually rob others of the opportunity to function at their HVC.
Now, I’m a realist. We both know that there are times when you have to function below your HVC. Client or regulatory deadlines, no one available, no one trained–these and other reasons engage you in work that you shouldn’t be doing. That’s life.
But that’s not the point. The key issue is what are you doing to maximize your HVC? How are you minimizing your work that others should be doing?
Everyone has a next level and should be aspiring to function in it. With the PartnersCoach®, you will discover and refine your HVC, identify the barriers and constraints that keep you from it and develop personal strategies to make it a reality.
If you can do it on your own, go for it. You, your clients and your firm will all benefit from it. If you can’t, contact me. You, your colleagues and your staff deserve better. There’s a better “you” to offer.
Process
The Coaching Process
Deciding to have a coach is an important decision and you should take your time. You need someone you’re comfortable with. You can tell a lot about me in my writing. As you read through this site, I encourage you to get a feel for the tone and approach I take. Does it make sense to you? Does it apply to your situation? Does it sync up with your style? If so, you’re ready to move forward.
Step 1
The first step in this process is to determine if we are a good fit. I’ve been successful with hundreds of managers and partners, but I’m fully aware that I’m not the right coach for EVERY professional. We make this decision together at the conclusion of a 15-20 minute introductory phone meeting. If we agree we can work together, we can move to the next step.
Step 2
The second step is for us to understand your style. If you have completed profiles in the past, we can use them. If not, I will schedule you to complete 2 personal assessments online, from which we will clarify your personal style.
Step 3
The third step is to identify and define your next level. What does it entail? What will it require of you? What changes need to be made in your work, function and role?
Step 4
The fourth step is to construct your development plan and begin the process of you living into your next level. You will learn how to understand and manage yourself, develop the skills required of you and measure your progress along the way. We will have a periodic discussion about your progress and your satisfaction with the process, making adjustments as necessary.
