business coaches for lawyers
As I’ve shared before, I help people optimize their skills, success and satisfaction in the law through my individual and group coaching practice. It’s an aspect of my work that I find incredibly rewarding. My coaching clients come to me for different reasons, but the greatest common denominator is a desire to claim, or re-claim, their power to build a meaningful and lucrative career that meshes with their real life interests and goals. Here’s a new article from the ABA’s Law Practice Management Section discussing how the legal profession “has been reaping the benefits of” executive coaching. Recognizing that law schools don’t sufficiently equip today’s practitioners for multi-tasking as “supervisors, rainmakers, and team and project leaders, as well as citizens of their firms and advisors to their clients,” the piece lists some of the chief reasons why lawyers engage coaching. These include a desire to: “Build interpersonal and communication skills; Create a personal client development plan and learn skills to implement the plan successfully; Clarify long-term career goals and execute steps to achieve those goals; and Find ways to create more balance between work and the rest of life and increase enjoyment in the practice of law.” The article concludes with an “action plan” for anyone interested in using a coach. The plan contains a couple of good resources for learning more about the coaching process.
