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How Training for Executives Can Help Leaders Create Results

Sonia Gallagher — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:26:37 +0000

How Training for Executives Can Help Leaders Create Results

What type of leader are you? Be honest with yourself. Are you as inspirational as you would like to be? Does your team give you 100% of their time and energy each and every time? In this article, we’ll talk about how training for executives can help you achieve this and more.

As leaders, we are catalysts for change and dedication from our staff. We essentially lead all the time. If you are the head of a law firm, a department, or a business, you are certainly leading by your words and by your actions.

Communication. A leader’s role is pivotal in creating a positive work environment for his or her staff. You should always demonstrate integrity, loyalty, productivity, and hard work. These messages should be reflected in every message you relay through both verbal and non-verbal communication.

Training for executives can help make you and extraordinary leader and communicator. One of the key ingredients to being a successful leader is communication skills. Successful owners of law firms, managers, supervisors, and CEO’s already know the importance of being a phenomenal listener. They hire companies that do coaching and training for executives to become experts at both verbal and non-verbal communication. They invest their time in becoming experts at reading body language.

Think about it, the higher you go in the corporate ladder, the more unlikely it is that your staff will tell you what’s really going on. The best way to lose that disconnection that is so common is to listen to what they are not telling you. You can gain a huge amount of insight from your staff members, clients, and colleagues through body language. This is one of the key areas in which training for executives can improve your leadership qualities and your company’s morale.

Accessibility. A good leader should always be accessible – practice the open door policy – and seek to always reward their staff for their efforts and hard work. Leaders are the types of people that their teams will give 110% to without even batting an eye.

Meaning. Looking at positive psychology theory and research, we know how important it is for people to perceive that what they do is meaningful. Having that knowledge helps us to grow and develop in our personal and professional life. When we feel we are making a difference in the tasks and projects we do and the challenges we are given, we grow as individuals and gain professional fulfillment. For many, meaningful work is more important than a pay check. It’s what makes them get up in the morning with a smile on their face to happily face the new day and look forward to getting to the office. Smart companies already know this and take advantage of programs focused on training for executives to capitalize on this. Remember this next time you hire someone or assign a task to your associate or team member.

Being a good leader is a skill that is developed through training for executives. Your development is worth every second of your investment. It is an investment in your own potential – AND in the potential of those that you will lead throughout your life.

I'm really looking forward to working with you to reach new heights of success and balance in your personal and professional life!

Sonia Gallagher, JD
Holistic Executive Life Coach

PS. If you are ready to be challenged, to steer your life in a new direction, and to achieve the goals you desire, I invite you to request a Free Coaching Session and Experience Coaching and How It Can Benefit Your First-hand!

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What is Required in Creating a Successful Goal?

Sonia Gallagher — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:24:30 +0000

According to the SMART acronym for setting achievable goals, when you set a goal for yourself, you should make sure that it is: 1. Specific, 2. Measurable, 3. Achievable, 4. Realistic, and 5. Timely.

1. Specific: When you begin to create goals for yourself, make sure to write down exactly what that goal is, what it entails, and why you want to accomplish it. Make it as clear and specific as possible. Having this clarity will help you to remove uncertainty and doubt of your own capability.

If you feel the goal is too big to tackle, break it down into smaller goals. That is no problem. The point is to design goals for yourself that you will go after.

When you are designing your goal, also make sure to include what is needed for you to reach that goal in regards to tools, people, specific action steps, and resources.

2. Measurable: Make sure to give yourself a deadline for each specific goal you create. Also give deadlines to each action step that you create for each goal.

If you don’t have a definitive deadline, your goal becomes a wish, a desire, or a resolution. Your chances of accomplishing it diminish greatly and your drive and focus goes out the window. Having a clearly set deadline keeps you on track, gives you the pressure that you need to get to where you want to be faster, and shows you whether you are using your time as effectively as possible.

3. Achievable: The goal you set for yourself should be attainable given your circumstances in life, health, and available resources.

4. Realistic: Your goals should require that you move from your comfort zone. Yet, they should not be impossible standards.

5. Timely: Your goal should include a specific time period in which it is to be accomplished. If you fail to have this information as part of your goal setting, you’ll simply be setting a wish, desire, or resolution… not as likely to be accomplished.

Sonia Gallagher is an Executive Life Coach at Time for Life, LLC. She works with Lawyers, Business Owners, and Executives who are ready to be challenged and to reach new levels of Success through Balance. Together, they design systems to: 1. Improve time-management and business development, 2. Create work life balance in alignment with their desired lifestyle, and 3. Overcome limiting thoughts and behavior in the way of their personal and professional goals.

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What is a Life Vision?

Sonia Gallagher — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:19:22 +0000

Do you have a vision reflecting what you want your life to look like this year? Do you have a vision for your life in general?

Have you ever stopped to consider what you want to experience in your life? Are you clear on what your life mission is? Do you know what goals you need to reach this year to get that much closer to your ideal life?

You may be reading this because:

- You want to experience more success in your life.

- You are now certain that the path in which your professional life is going is not the right one.

- You are tired of just “getting by” and want to steer your career in the direction in which you want to go.

- You understand that there is more to life than work and want to experience a greater quality of life.

Whether you want to achieve goals in your personal life or your professional life, you have complete power over whether you achieve these goals or not.

Your mind is the most powerful tool you have available for success. Yet, the majority of us don’t know how to use it to its fullest potential.

Why is it that we allow our negative self-talk to rule our decisions and actions on a regular basis? Why do we allow our own mind to be our own worst enemy and biggest obstacle to our goals when it is the most powerful tool we have available to us?

So, what is a life vision?

A vision is very similar to a business plan. However, it is a plan for your whole life.

When you have a vision, you have a holistic plan in which you focus on each segment of your life and set up ways in which you will take your life to the next level, to its optimal potential, and to true success.

Having a vision is not the same thing as having a goal. A vision is a plan for the bigger picture of your life. It will be filled with goals as these goals will be the stepping stones to reaching your optimal life and vision. For example, if your vision is to have your own successful law practice, a goal that will work towards that vision is to graduate from law school, pass the Bar exam, find mentors that will help you along the way, learn marketing techniques, etc. If you want to become the Vice President of your company, you know you’ll have to do research on the specific criteria needed for the position and obtain the skills needed as you move towards the goal of being VP.

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What is the Power Behind a Life Vision?

Sonia Gallagher — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:16:32 +0000

Creating a vision of what you want your life to be is essential for achieving it. When you create a vision, you are clarifying to yourself what your optimal life looks like.

That clarity is of utmost importance as it increases your success potential exponentially. The more details you use as part of your vision, the better. These details are information and gems of wisdom for yourself. They help you establish what is truly valuable and important to you. You learn what you will need to live a truly fulfilling life and what you no longer want in your life.

Having a vision gives you the power to take an inventory of each aspect of your life as it is at this very moment. Having this power enables you to create clear and consistent changes in your life. You are able to pin-point with preciseness what is missing in your life, what you would like more of, what you are happy with at the current moment, and what you would like to achieve for yourself in the near future.

Creating a vision of your optimal life is the most crucial step towards creating change, towards taking a hold of the wheel of the ship that is your life, and conducting it to the path that you want to take. It is the one decision that enables you to direct all of your focus, energy, creativity, and aptitude to manifesting what you want to experience, see, and create in your life. You owe it to yourself to take action right now.

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Lawyer Coach Services- The Recipe for Success

Sonia Gallagher — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:10:14 +0000

Do you wonder why success comes so easily to some people but difficult for others?

It all has to do with your mind set.

People who achieve success on a consistent basis have one thing in common. Whether they are successful athletes, business owners, or lawyers, they all have a consistent knowledge that they will succeed. When you know what you believe to be true, you take action based on it.

This frame of mind enables you to conquer obstacles, solve problems creatively, and get more done in less time. Having the right skills is not enough. Your mind set is the most important factor.

Your beliefs hold you back, keep you in the same place, or move you forward. We all know this and are all too quick to let it happen. How many times have you ever caught yourself being excited about a new goal at one moment and feeling fear and anxiety within a few hours? This happens to so many of us and so frequently that we don’t even notice it.That’s the scary part.

We can be our own biggest obstacle or our own biggest support. Contemplate on the power of that statement and the truth of it. Why not focus all the power you’ve got on supporting your own goals, challenges, and vision?

Become familiar with your beliefs and start making leaps in your life. Once you are aware of your beliefs, you can apply strategies to modify and replace them with beliefs that enable your peak performance.

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