Cheryl Stephens: Mentor/Muse

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Practice Development Index

Marketing Strategies and Tactics

• Making Your Newsletter an Effective Marketing Tool
• The Popular Legal Curriculum: A Media-Awareness Workshop, Materials for presenters


• Branding Your Law Practice
• Cross-selling Legal Services
• If You've Got a Niche, Flaunt It!
• Share the Risk: Offer a Service Quality Guarantee
• The Service Expectations of Today's Client
• Practice Area Valuation Worksheets
• Dr. Jekly and Mr. Hyde in the Law Office
• Modern Formats for Legal Memorandum and Opinions
• Plain Language Benefits the Law Firm
• Six Client Shibboleths About Plain Language Drafting

Client Relations

• How to Handle Client Complaints
• Do a Communication Audit
• Keeping Clients Informed Pays Big Dividends
• Is the Form Still Blank: Maybe your client has difficulty reading
• Client Needs for Clear Information
• Don't Be a Letterhead: Think About Your Clients

Professional Development

Developing A Career Strategy

• Exercises for Exploring Your Options

Mentoring and Being Mentored

• The Benefits to the Mentor
• Peer-Mentoring Benefits and Ethics

Understanding the Lawyer Personality

• Takes One to Know One: Lawyer Personalities
• Key Drivers for the Lawyer Personality
• Charting Lawyers under the Meyers-Briggs Regime

Communications Issues

Oral and Aural

• Giving Staff Instructions Effectively
• Are You Listening? Common Mistakes
• Listening Skills Are Crucial
• Communicating Across the Cultural Divide: Male and Female Communications Styles
• 10 Tips for Communication Across Cultures (Diversity Issue)

Writing

• What is really wrong with legal language?
• Think, Simplify, Organize
• The Nitty Gritty
• Readable Writing
• Framing Your Message
• Basic Rules of Design -- to enhance your message

Special Formats and Types of Writing

• A Crash Course in Plain Language Legal Drafting
• Organization of Legal Memorandum
• Workshop Notes on Persuasive Legal Writing

Personal Development Index

• Exercises and Worksheets
• Building Resiliency
• Don't Be a Victim -- That's Not Why You Went to Law School
• It Isn't Brain Surgery!
• Make Your Dreams Come True
• Practice Optimism
• Be Open and Notorius!
• Women and Success
• Take a Desk-top Vacation
• The Value of Humour
• Savoring
• Why Lawyers Want Coaches
• FAQ: What is Coaching?
• On Coaching for Lawyers
• Seven Reasons Why Lawyers Hire a Coach

Services Index

• Secular Celebration Facilitation
• Personal and Business Coaching
Workshops
• Creativity - One-day program
• Creativity - Four-session program
Schedule of Current Creativity Events
Teleconference Series
• Getting Things Done!
• Creating Work/Life Harmony

Recent Personal History
Curriculum Vitae
Neighborhood Links
References

Contact: email@CherylStephens.com