WORKING TOGETHER

It is important what your experience and background are and where you are in your life. It’s equally important, however, that you have the ability to see and acknowledge that you and/or your business have never been here before. Familiar tools and approaches that have previously served us well may not only not serve us well but may actually work against us.

The work we will do together is a strategic investment in your life or your business’ life. Our efforts will be client-tailored to the needs you bring and the circumstances in which you find yourself.  Before we begin, however, it’s crucial that you want to work with me and I want to work with you. Therefore, I always have a free, half hour mutual introductory session with potential clients to make sure we 1. Already know each other before we begin our work together and 2. Are both on board with wanting to work together.

I work with people locally, nationally, all over the world.  In-person work. Using technologies to meet works. Face to face, whether in person or electronically, is always the best way to proceed.

I only want to see you at intervals that help inform and drive your progress.   At the end each working session together, we will agree on what needs to be accomplished next and how long it will take to do so.   That’s how we will know when to schedule our next working session.    This gives you a. Clear next steps, b. A due date to work towards, and c.  A commitment to both of us for clear, incremental progress.   “How often and at what intervals” will change regularly across the course of our work together.   It’s my consistent experience that 3 to 4 weeks is the outside limit we should set between our working sessions so that momentum, energy, and progress are consistently maintained.

If you are coming to work with me because I am a Guru with all the answers you could possibly need, think again.   You aren’t an empty vessel into which I pour content.   You bring important experience and expertise unique to your biography and generation.    I do, too.   I am an expert with lots of pragmatic and conceptual information you need and a ton of experience in applying it.   No one today can know it all.  We’re going to utilize and honor the best of both of us to accomplish what you need.

There will be times you love what you are doing along with a sense of optimism that comes with newness and progress.    There will be times you are discouraged and want everything to move along faster, impatient to get “there”, wherever there might be.   These are natural experiences and assessments.    The trick isn’t to avoid them.   The thing to remember is not to veer off too deeply into any of them because these, too, will pass.

Compensation: My compensation for working with individuals, couples, and families is based on hourly charges. My compensation for businesses can be negotiated as hourly charges or on a project basis with a retainer. In all cases I use PayPal to bill for completed hours/segments of negotiated work.

Our work together will be challenging, enlightening, focused on you or your business, and rewarding.

I look forward to our working together.