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How Much Confidence Do Others Have in You?

If you’re like most lawyers, you want to project a great image—one that leads others to believe in you as much as you believe in you. But how do you achieve this? Forming a strong personal brand begins with your …

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New Business Development Book — Daunting to DOable: You CAN Make It Rain

I know you know the feeling: you’ve successfully finished a huge, complicated deal, or won a massive, many pieces moving, piece of litigation…and then, it’s done. Exhaustion? Sure. Exhilaration? Yes, and sometimes, a strong desire to share. Well, that is …

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Why Do Business Development

I just had a fascinating and important conversation with a senior associate at a large law firm that I believe will resonate with many of you. I have been coaching her for six months. She has a clear direction for …

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From Scattered to Strategic

When I ask clients to describe their business development efforts I most often hear the word, “scattered.” If this defines you, you likely feel inefficient, ineffective and frustrated when even thinking about developing business. I did too, and then I …

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Adding a Different Voice to LinkedIn

I dedicated the last quarter of 2014 to experimenting with social media. Many of us “over 40s” (let alone over 60s) don’t quite get this new platform, especially in the professional arena. Isn’t it just another thing to DO and …

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Women Can Have What They Want … Once They Learn the Art of the Ask!

Today, I was speaking with a women partner who is an attorney coaching client. We were debriefing her coaching homework for the week, which focused on asking her partner/mentor to make good on his promise to invest in her attendance …

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Your Vision of Success: Clarity is Compelling

Summer has finally come to Los Angeles and along with summer comes a very foggy vision of the landscape.  Okay… I must admit, LA often has great weather, but we residents know that summer also brings more of the dreaded …

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Top Players Have Professional Coaches

Just as elite athletes have professional coaches to help them develop their individual skills, work more effectively as a team, deliver critical feedback and motivate them to improve, elite and executive lawyers benefit from the same type of support. Attorneys …

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Navigating Midlife

Maintaining interest and a high level of performance in a demanding job is one of the key challenges faced by lawyers when they reach the normal developmental life stage commonly referred to as “midlife” — a period that all healthy …

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Navigating Midlife

Maintaining interest and a high level of performance in a demanding job is one of the key challenges faced by lawyers when they reach the normal developmental life stage commonly referred to as “midlife” — a period that all healthy …

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