Legal matters
As a lawyer, there is always pressure to provide robust technical legal advice whilst still providing effective business solutions. A commercial solicitor for 13 years, 7 of those years working as Head of Legal and Company Secretary with senior management at board level, Kareen has a strong business background and is used to working in organisations focused on performance, productivity and significant change.
As an executive coach and mentor, Kareen acts as an invaluable, experienced, independent sounding board providing a confidential place for lawyers at all levels to clarify their thoughts away from their business lives. This affords them the confidence and encouragement to achieve their targets and put themselves back in charge of their career by helping them to identify and build the right relationships within and outside of the organisation.
I believe that my background and experience in the legal profession coupled with my natural coaching style offers a unique package for achieving greater re:cognition in the legal field.
Kareen Cranston, 2009
Legal coaching can help you:
- To find and keep top talent
- Refine office management techniques
- Clarify career goals
- Address work/life balance and manage stress
- Enhance self development and personal performance
- Enhance interpersonal skills when communicating at all levels and the ability to cope with conflict among partners or colleagues
- Reconnect with your firm, Increase motivation and build self-confidence and self-esteem
- Market your practice
- Ensure that every partner becomes a rainmaker
- Deliver results and articulate the value of the legal department
- Define the strategic direction for your in-house team
- Remove limiting beliefs
- See things from the client's point of view
- Develop delegation skills
- Provide a more proactive service to your clients and learn to build successful relationships
- Improve teamwork between legal colleagues, in-house and private practice firms and clients
- Improve your planning, prioritisation and time management
- Improve your emotional intelligence and political awareness.
Professional Coaching is not counseling, therapy or consulting. It does not focus on examining nor diagnosing the past, instead it focuses on effecting change in a client's current and future behaviour.
Be wary about taking on too many tasks at one given time. When you become overwhelmed with too many tasks it will inhibit your ability to focus, you will become worried and stressed about not meeting expectations and failing on deliverables. Try doing one thing at a time, you will be able to concentrate clearly and work faster and more productively.
CranstonCognition – the confidential sounding board for managing your cases, clients and career.
