Coaching for Lawyers: 10 Ways a Lawyer Can Benefit from Working with a Professional Coach

Written by Jatrine Bentsi-Enchill, J.D., CPCC


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4. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY. Productive people haverepparttar ability to complete their work on time and in an efficient manner. How many times have you committed to completing a task only to haverepparttar 129312 needs of someone else get inrepparttar 129313 way? Atrepparttar 129314 core of Professional Coaching is accountability. Knowing that you've made a commitment to yourself AND told someone else about it, makes you more likely to stay on task. Your Coach holds you accountable for what you say you want to accomplish, and then continues to work with you as you achieve your goals and increase productivity.

5. NAVIGATE A CAREER TRANSITION. Too often, lawyers get locked into a job because they lackrepparttar 129315 tools needed to determine their next steps. Changing jobs, switching to a new practice area or transitioning to a new career can be tough. So tough in fact that many lawyers end up STUCK in an unfulfilling career. A Coach can provide you withrepparttar 129316 insight, resources and feedback needed to make concrete decisions regarding your career. If it’s time to move up or out…a Coach can help you make that decision faster and with greater ease than you would on your own.

6. IMPROVE TIME AND PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SKILLS. Lawyers are slaves to time yet few if any law schools provide training on how to successfully manage time. Case files, motions, clients, conference calls, deadlines, e-mails and meetings are simply a fraction of what goes on in a typical lawyer’s day. Too often everything feels like a priority and lawyers report feeling overwhelmed, stressed and ultimately burned out. A Professional Coach can help you to take an honest look at your schedule and how you currently spend your time and manage your practice. Based on this information your Coach can help you create a strategy where you can achieve more in less time…often with more time for a healthy personal life. Goodbye burnout!

7. DEVELOP A UNIQUE BRAND FOR IMPROVED MARKETING. The practice of law is competitive and it’s important to create a brand that effectively communicates your value to your employer, colleagues and potential clients. Why should they hire you over another lawyer? A Coach can help you create and develop your unique value proposition and help you communicate it to others in a way that helps you develop a successful reputation and career.

8. DISCOVER YOUR PASSION IN THE LAW. Have you met lawyers who report feeling disillusioned withrepparttar 129317 law or report feeling lost? These feelings tend to emerge in a career when there is a misalignment betweenrepparttar 129318 workrepparttar 129319 lawyer is involved in and his or her personal and professional values. Sustaining a successful career inrepparttar 129320 law requiresrepparttar 129321 pursuit and attainment of work in alignment with your passion, interests and strengths. Through Coaching you’ll haverepparttar 129322 opportunity to gain clarity about your ideal work and work environment and then takerepparttar 129323 necessary action steps toward designing a successful and gratifying legal career.

9. CREATE BOUNDARIES. Working with a Professional Coach can help you evaluate what you say "yes" to because you want to and what you need to quit saying "yes" to. A Coach can help you findrepparttar 129324 cure forrepparttar 129325 "disease to please" andrepparttar 129326 inability to delegate effectively. Through coaching you’ll haverepparttar 129327 opportunity to consider what you need to say "yes "to or "no" to in order to respect your boundaries and function more effectively in your legal career.

10. ACHIEVE WORK-LIFE BALANCE. Lawyers are required to maintain hectic schedules under incredibly stressful, high pressure situations. After maintaining such a pace many lawyers experience burnout, depression and other stress related illnesses. Like others in high pressure professions, lawyers need find an outlet to relieverepparttar 129328 stress of work. A Coach will help you to take charge and create a more balanced life. A Professional Coach can help you find time for family, friends, hobbies AND a successful law career.

Jatrine Bentsi-Enchill is the founder and director of the Esq. Development Institute, an organization committed to helping lawyers excel personally and professionally. The Esq. Development Institute specializes in Executive and Personal Coaching for lawyers as well as training and assessment processes for law firms in the areas of leadership, communication, diversity and cultural competence, management development and work-life balance.


Sleep Maximization

Written by Alan Tutt


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Eat Light

Again, something we should be doing for other reasons. If you go to bed with food still in your digestive system, your blood is engaged in distributingrepparttar nutrients ofrepparttar 129308 food torepparttar 129309 rest of your body and has a hard time doing double duty to help inrepparttar 129310 daily repair work. Also, when your body is healthier, all systems and processes work better, includingrepparttar 129311 daily recuperation of sleep.

Lower Your Stress Levels

I'm sure you're surprised by this one, heh? When you go to bed with worries and problems on your mind, you have a hard time relaxing enough to get to sleep. There are many different things you can do to help here, but one ofrepparttar 129312 best may be a short period of meditation before bedtime. Resolve to put offrepparttar 129313 problems ofrepparttar 129314 day (or of your life) until tomorrow. By getting a quality night's sleep, you'll have more energy and more brainpower to find a solution.

Set a Regular Sleep Schedule

Although our modern cultures play havoc with our schedules, requiring us to get up and out ofrepparttar 129315 house at different times each day, if we are to getrepparttar 129316 most we can from our sleep, it's important to always start our days at aboutrepparttar 129317 same time. The main reason for this is simply because our bodies work by regular cycles, and if those cycles are disturbed, our systems don't work as efficiently. The time we get up inrepparttar 129318 morning is more important to this cycle thanrepparttar 129319 time we go to sleep at night, but both will affectrepparttar 129320 quality of sleep that we get.

One thing that most of us do which killsrepparttar 129321 regularity of our sleep cycle is sleeping later onrepparttar 129322 weekends than we do duringrepparttar 129323 work week. Of course, that was to try to increase our energy levels, and now that we know how to getrepparttar 129324 most energy from our sleep, this will no longer be necessary.

How To Sleep Shorter Nights

Before you can start decreasingrepparttar 129325 amount of time you spend sleeping each night, it's important to increaserepparttar 129326 quality of sleep by implementingrepparttar 129327 above suggestions. Once you start getting better sleep, you can then adjustrepparttar 129328 amount of sleep you get each night.

Another piece of information that you'll need to know is that duringrepparttar 129329 time we spend sleeping, we go through a number of sleep cycles. We drift from light sleep to deep sleep and back again over and over. Most of us experience about 6 to 10 of these sleep cycles, which last about 20 to 40 minutes in length.

Ideally, you want to wake up atrepparttar 129330 end of one of these cycles, when you are in a light sleep, not a deep sleep. This makes it easier to wake up, and helps you to feel more energetic to start your day. The simplest way to find out what works best for you is simply to experiment with different bedtimes, and seeing how much energy you have after waking uprepparttar 129331 next day.

For More Information

If you'd like to learn more about how to getrepparttar 129332 most you can from sleep, visit http://www.keystopower.com/Link/PowerfulSleep.php.

Alan Tutt is the creator of the world-famous Keys To Power Mastery System available at http://www.KeysToPower.com. Learn how to gain absolute control over yourself and your world with the power of your mind and spirit. Free mini-course available.


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