In case you missed Matt Symonds recent article on Forbes.com’s about executive coaching,  he reported that corporate America is spending more than $1 billion annually on executive coaching.  This growth in coaching is due to a heightened focus on developing high potential leaders (rather than a remedial effort to...

Please join me in Grapevine, Texas on March 14, 2012, for my presentation on mentoring at the Legal Marketing Association’s annual conference at the Gaylord Texan Hotel and Conference Center.  This year’s conference, with its theme of Leadership and Effecting Change, brings together national leaders in law firm marketing as the legal...

I was in Las Vegas at the end of last week, attending the Winter Leadership meeting of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section at the Bellagio.  In between caucusing with my co-chairs of this summer’s ABA Annual meeting in Chicago, we took care of the business of meeting with...

In Relly Nadler’s book, Leading With Emotional Intelligence, he posits that Star Performers don’t have to standout in every competency, but generally have 9 to 10 strong competencies (out of 20) balanced across the four areas of emotional intelligence:  understanding yourself, managing yourself, understanding others, and managing others.  One...