Maximizing Motivation
For most of our clients, the spring busy season is over (hooray!), and that creates some time and space to focus on yourselves and your firms. It’s my hope that you’ll use this time to renew your focus...
View ArticleMillennial Strategies For Taking Career Ownership
My ConvergenceCoaching team members and I have had a great three days attending the BDO Alliance conference in Las Vegas, exploring the theme of innovation and how it applies in all areas of practice...
View ArticleAsk and You Shall Receive Feedback!
When speaking with young leaders in our Transformational Leadership Program, or meeting with young leaders at firm retreats, one consistent complaint we hear is that people don’t get enough feedback on...
View ArticleMaintaining Rapport and Trust In a Virtual World
“The foundation of the client relationship is in jeopardy.” “How can I build rapport with someone if I’m never face-to-face with them?” “I need to shake someone’s hand to feel related to them.” When we...
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Triple Your Team Member’s Progress with Three Types of Feedback
Feedback is a hot topic this year at ConvergenceCoaching. Firms are interested in more quickly progressing and growing their staff, and we believe the key to doing it successfully is providing...
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Drive Change In BOTH Mechanics AND Behavior
“The very best practice mechanics you devise – new plans, programs, and processes – will only succeed when you pay careful attention to the human behavior around those mechanics.” Me to Our Clients,...
View ArticleThree Keys to Being Your True Self
I have recently moved from student to teacher in the culmination of years of dreaming and hard work. In my first-ever semester as an adjunct professor for my alma mater, Franklin Pierce University, I...
View ArticleGive Up These (BAD) Verbal Habits!
Communication continually comes up in employee surveys as a top area firms can improve and it’s often an area that leaders can improve individually, too. When we coach leaders in our leadership...
View ArticleYou’re NEVER Too Busy to Give Feedback
“Make feedback normal. Not a performance review.” ~ Ed Batista You’re in the middle of busy season, with multiple engagements in play and the team running in fifteen different directions. Are you...
View ArticleThe Value of Team
“What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same” This quote from Mark Nepo, a poet and philosopher, describes my thoughts while watching Lindsey Vonn reach the bottom of the...
View ArticleCrawl Out of the Hole of Setbacks and Failure
In my blog, Failure is Not Fatal, I explored some strategies to persevere when setbacks and failures rear their ugly head. They include setting a new goal, getting into action, not being a lone ranger...
View ArticleMillennial Strategies For Relating to Baby Boomer Clients
In 2019, Millennials will surpass the Baby Boomers as the largest living generation. Congratulations, my fellow Gen Y’ers – we are so close to officially having our reign! All kidding aside, many of us...
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Communicate to Drive Change
“Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.” ~ Reinhold Niebuhr Have you found the meaning of life? If we each had to define our meaning, the meanings we’d interpret would be as diverse...
View ArticleSorting Out My Stories
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein Some of the things I say about myself are true. I’m a mother, a...
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Personality Dynamics in Coaching
In our work with clients, we encourage using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) personality assessment to gain a better understanding of a leader’s preferences and how those preferences mirror or...
View ArticleR-E-S-P-E-C-T in the Workplace Today
With the airways filled with memories of Aretha Franklin and how she sang about respect in a love relationship between a man and a woman. I feel that respect is important in every relationship...
View ArticleMaintaining Rapport and Trust In a Virtual World
“The foundation of the client relationship is in jeopardy.” “How can I build rapport with someone if I’m never face-to-face with them?” “I need to shake someone’s hand to feel related to them.” When we...
View ArticleWhat Grade Would Your Clients Earn?
The succession of Baby Boomer professionals is a topic on the minds of most firm leaders today. A significant component of the succession process for many is the transition of clients. There are many...
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Don’t Leave Your Remote Culture to Chance
When I first divulge to a new acquaintance or friend that I am a 100% virtual employee at ConvergenceCoaching the first response I seem to receive is, “Whoa! I am jealous. I wish I got to work at...
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The Key To ATAWW™ Success – Communication!
Communication is a central theme in our work with leaders at all levels. Whether it’s communicating to help team members adopt change, sharing your firm’s vision and how each element contributes to...
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