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Archive for 'Practice Building Advice' Category
Managing Your Time and Energy
21 August 2009Has this ever happened to you? You get the same message from several sources?
Call it the power of focus, God whispering to you, or whatever you like…
Lately, I’ve been getting the message on time, energy, and life priorities.
I value productivity and accomplishments, I tend to be achievement oriented. I like to […]
Tough Times
11 August 2009Questions of the day: Are you still believing? Are you still focusing on the possibilities?
Or have the news, the economy, your diminished retirement, lay offs, and other financial set backs taken the wind out of your positive sails?
It’s easy to get discouraged during times like these. Often times you may […]
Experts Win Business
13 February 2009I do employment law and mediation and this week I went to a training on California wage and hour laws.
The instructor was a well-known employment lawyer who has been in the field for around 30 years and provides training on various employment law topics for lawyers and HR professionals. He also has written publications […]
In House Counsel’s Viewpoint
16 June 2008As a mediator or conflict resolution specialists who may work with in-house counsel in mediation, it is important to understand what in-house counsel is up against. When you understand the in-house attorney’s problems and situation, you can better serve him or her with your mediation and conflict resolution services.
In this article, Avoid […]
New Book on RainMaking, Author Interview
14 March 2008Those of you who joined me last October for our teleseminar with Ford Harding on So You Want to be a Rainmaker? know that Ford is a veteran rainmaking consultant and his firm has studied hundreds of highly successful rainmakers over many years. And you will also know that Ford provides excellent, well-researched content […]
ACR Call for Proposals 2008 Annual Conference
12 February 2008Mediators and Conflict Managers:
Now’s your chance to share your knowledge, research, and experiences with your peers.
The Association of Conflict Resolution has announced the call for proposals for its 2008 Annual Conference in Austin, Texas.
Researching and putting together a compelling presentation will help position you as an expert in your field.
The leaders in a field are […]
Market Research — where’s the pain?
22 January 2008Market Research is your friend.
It may take time to begin gathering it, but everytime you see some, gather it, e.g. I linked to the research cited by the Boston Law Collaborative last week, here.
Create a “market research” swipe file, print it out and begin collecting your nuggets.
Why?
Inertia.
As a marketer of your professional service […]
Technical Mastery: Becoming a master mediator
16 January 2008In my post last week asking where were all the great employment mediators in New Jersey…mediator blogger Victoria Pynchon posted a comment that I don’t want you all to miss, so I am going to attach it to the bottom of this post.
I raised an issue about the perceived value, competence and ability of mediators […]
2008 (yeah it IS really late) Mediation Marketing Plan
14 January 2008Hey, January is just about HALF over. I know.
Did you prepare your mediation marketing and business plan for 2008 in December like all the *experts* say you should?
Well, even if you’re late (like I am with this blog post) fear not. I wanted to get my own new year planning done before I […]
Does anyone *even* know you have a website?
9 January 2008We could all drown in the buckets of information on the internet. I get overwhelmed sometimes just looking at the list of blogs in my RSS feed. I have stopped reading them all, I just don’t have time.
We live in a time of information overload.
Yet, more and more people will turn to […]