Coaching

Professional Coaching

We can help you improve your management and leadership performance through confidential discussions designed to help you identify and demonstrate essential strengths required by your role.

With the benefit of 30 years of experience in working with successful executive officers in more than 100 companies, we can help you develop an objective and constructive understanding of ways your management and leadership style and orientation can be fine-tuned to greatly improve your performance.

Our approach is to systematically review with you your relationships with clients and colleagues to identify what is working and what needs improvement. This enables us to talk about ways you can improve these relationships while more effectively playing your role as an attorney and manager, especially in situations where you need to deliver advice or feedback that is unpopular.

In total confidence, we talk about how you can improve your delivery, listen more effectively, and communicate your ideas and key points in ways that people will find effective and persuasive. We will also discuss specific techniques you can use to improve your leadership and supervisory skills that will lead to more effective and enthusiastic team response.

Our approach can be formally structured through a series of scheduled one-on-one sessions or set up informally as periodic discussions convened when you feel there is a key reason for doing so.

Typical Assignments

Periodic informal or structured one-on-one confidential discussions with law department leaders focused on reviewing and improving their management and leadership performance
Facilitation of roundtable discussions with department leadership teams, practice groups or client service teams focusing on identifying strategies to improve performance and results
Assistance for individual lawyers or groups of lawyers in interpreting performance feedback and creating practical professional development plans

Article Reprint

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Pathways to the Top This article by Steve Nowlan, published in MCCA's Diversity & the Bar, reviews the career histories and successes of several leading minority general counsel.

Success Strategies From Women at the Top This article, co-authored by Steve Nowlan and published in MCCA's Diversity & the Bar, reviews the steps taken by women to attain the role of general counsel.