I began my productivity coaching engagement with attorney Brett Renzenbrink when he was working as a shareholder at a successful 4th Street law firm in downtown Cincinnati. Brett was seeking a productivity coach to assist him with maximizing his time and minimizing his overwhelm.
As a highly-driven attorney, Brett held several leadership positions within the firm as well as several board member and volunteer roles in the community. In addition, Brett was in the midst of a book launch with the goal of speaking regionally to promote his book and his message to law school students. He clearly had a full plate, and while he was excited and fully vested in all of his current opportunities, he also faced an on-going challenge: meeting the monthly billable requirements at the firm. It was a tough juggling act month after month for Brett, working to fulfill the expectations of the additional roles and responsibilities he had within the firm and with outside community organizations, while providing high-value counsel to a full book of clients.
Within the first few weeks of time management coaching, Brett quickly committed to following a morning routine that included exercise, meditation, nutrition, and no client communication before getting to his office. By breaking an inefficient habit of answering client emails and texts while working out &/or while commuting, Brett quickly began to capture billable time that had previously been unaccounted for.
The Power of Time Management Coaching
Brett began processing his email at only three strategic times each day. This allowed him to stay focused, bill in longer increments of time, and eliminated the frequent interruptions he had previously experienced due to constant email notifications and other technology alerts from his computer and phone. He streamlined client correspondence to computer only, after realizing that responses by phone frequently resulted in undocumented billable minutes.
When asked what results he experienced working with me as a time management and productivity coach, Brett shared that he was no longer reactive to technology, especially email. He reported successfully using time blocks with consistency and efficiency for client billable work, and he felt a new level of freedom to take time for himself. The most impactful strategy? Implementing a work day Check-In and Check-Out routine to bookend his work days. He also reported using the Tasks feature in Outlook much more strategically to meet deadlines for his highest priority tasks.
Team Productivity
Once Brett found his flow and established the work-life balance he was looking for, his law firm engaged Peak Productivity to facilitate team productivity training for associates and other firm leaders. Several of the associates at the firm participated in a 90-day personal productivity coaching program to address their own productivity goals and to support their efforts in building their own books of business.
Brett summarized his coaching experience in one word: “transcendent”.
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