- Coaching
- Executive Coaching
- Group Coaching
- Seminars/ Workshops/ Retreats
- Motivational Address/ Keynote Speaker
- Legal
- Executive Coaching for Law Students
- Executive Coaching for New Lawyers (0-5 Years)
- Summer Association Boot Camp Program
- Coaching Round-Table for Women Lawyers
Coaching
Executive coaching
Our coaches establish a one-on-one relationship with individuals and assist with connecting that individual to their highest level of performance. Individuals are able to produce extraordinary results, both professionally and personally. Our executive coaching process allows individuals to identify and modify behavior that blocks them from performing at their highest level. The Executive Coaching process involves following these four distinct phases:
(1) Assessment/ data gathering;
(2) Establishment of the expectations of the coaching process;
(3) The coaching process; and
(4) Follow-up.
Common focus areas for our Executive Coaching are leadership skill development, effective communication/ conflict resolution, team-building, self-confidence building, goal setting and implementation, time self-management, work-life balance/ stress reduction, diversity and inclusion.
Group Coaching
Group coaching is specifically designed for women. Group coaching serves as your support system and will assist you with gaining clarity about your direction in life. Partial lists of topics explored include: work/ life balance, stress reduction, management of self vs. time management, self-confidence building, and self-care. Group coaching allows you to exchange resources, provides you with a sense of community, motivates and empowers you to become your personal best.
Seminars/ Workshops/ Retreats
At New Heights Company, we realize that each client is unique and therefore may require a specialized format for his/her seminar, workshop or retreat. The client selects a topic for his/her event from the ten (10) Management Training modules or from our Executive Coaching topic list. A meeting is scheduled to review particular needs as it relates to the topic selected. The workshop, seminar or retreat is then tailored to meet the satisfaction of each particular client. Teleclasses and Webinars are also available.
The (10) Management Training Modules include:
1. Examine Your Beliefs
2. Focus
3. Let Your Values Guide Your Life
4. Set and Implement Stretch Goals
5. Create a Vision and Mission
6. Build Your Self-Confidence Muscle
7. Forgiveness
8. Manage Yourself: Time Keeps Ticking
9. Breakthrough Roadblocks
10. Discover Your Purpose
Executive Coaching Topics include:
1. Leadership Skill Development
2. Effective Communication/ Conflict Resolution
3. Team-Building
4. Self-Confidence Building
5. Goal Setting and Implementation
6. Work/ Life Balance/ Stress Reduction
7. Self-Management
8. Diversity and Inclusion
Motivational Address/ Keynote Speaker
Please complete a schedule request form for your next event. If you’re looking for a charismatic, motivational and inspirational speaker, then book Tamara today. Topics are tailored for corporate and non-corporate events.
View the Testimonials page to read what people are saying about Tamara.
Recent speaking and upcoming engagements
Recent Speaking Engagements
- UC Hastings College of The Law, April 9, 2008, San Francisco
- BNI Embarcadero, May 14, 2008, San Francisco
- UC Regents Women’s Leadership Symposium, June 5, Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA
- Change Your Life Seminars, September 9, 2008, Antioch, CA
Upcoming Keynote
- 2008 Minority Bar Coalition & Awards Reception, “Choices & Unity”, Golden Gate University School of Law, October 10, 2008, ”Taking Control of Your Legal Career” Panel A, San Francisco, CA
- Alameda County Legal Secretaries Association, November 18, 2008, Oakland, CA
Legal
Executive Coaching for Law Students:
- Bar Passage: Learn skill sets that law school doesn’t teach you for passing the California State Bar exam. Partner with a coach to resolve internal challenges that may prevent you from passing the Bar. Develop a belief system that is in alignment with your goal for passing the Bar exam. Develop a written plan for passage of the Bar that you can implement immediately.
- Success In Law School: Law school can be overwhelming and stressful. Students are overloaded with information from outlines, textbooks and study groups. Students typically do not know where to start. Partnering with a coach provides the student with an opportunity to gain clarity and focus in order to become successful in law school. The coach and student map out a written plan to get them from where they are to where they want to be by identifying and removing the roadblocks that prevent them from being successful.
- Career: Discover your passion in the field of law, and develop your niche. Partner with a coach to explore your career options in the law. Where do you want to be and what is holding you back? Develop a written short-term and long-term plan for your legal career that you can implement immediately.
Executive Coaching for New Lawyers (0-5 years):
The practice of law can be intimidating and isolating. It is imperative to have a support system in place to face the unique challenges you will encounter in your practice. Partnering with an Executive Coach provides you with a support system and an accountability partner. A partial list of skill sets you will acquire through coaching include:
- Develop leadership skills in order to influence decision makers, opposing counsel, existing and prospective clientele.
- Discover your niche in the law.
- Learn how to effectively communicate with decision makers, difficult colleagues, opposing counsel, existing and prospective clients, and staff.
- Develop your self-confidence.
- Learn the importance of self-management vs. time management.
- Summer Associate Boot Camp Program
- Beginning a summer associate position can be both exciting and scary. Hire a coach to train and coach your summer associates on how to achieve success at their summer associate position. Summer associates acquire skill sets that are not taught in law school. Gain a competitive advantage over your colleagues.
Partial list of areas covered
- Self-confidence building
- Goal setting and implementation
- Effective Communication
- Self management vs. time management
- Leadership development
Coaching Round-table for Women Lawyers
- Women face challenges in the law that men rarely encounter, such as balancing a family and the demands of their legal career.
- A coaching round-table for women lawyers provides women with a forum to air concerns and challenges in the field of the law.
- Women receive group support and executive coaching. Resources are exchanged to enhance each participant of the group.
- Women are motivated and empowered to tackle the challenges of the legal profession
