Are You Making This Avoidable Mistake in Your CLNC® Business?
I recently mentored a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant who needed to crank up the level of quality she was delivering to her attorney-clients. She admitted she had gotten a bit too relaxed and wasn’t putting her all into her CLNC work product. She was still delivering decent work, but just not what she was capable of. Her less than stellar work ethic hadn’t yet destroyed her CLNC business, but she was at risk of losing a good thing and she knew it. By the time she contacted LegalNurse.com for mentoring, it was too late for anything less than Vickie-style buck-up advice: “Sounds to me like you’re getting a bit lazy and that you’re not as grateful for your attorney-clients as when you first started consulting. My recommendation is to buckle down, get to work and put yourself into each and every case as though it’s your first.”
After a few more serious buck-up mentoring sessions, she emailed me to share the results of cranking it up. “I’m happy to tell you that everything is going according to your guidance and direction. I am now more engaged in my CLNC business and with my attorney-clients on an intense level. It’s so refreshing, I feel like I’m on fire and a new Certified Legal Nurse Consultant all over again.”
When you give less of yourself, it’s not just your legal nurse consulting work product and the attorney-client relationship that suffer, you do too. The quality of how you show up erodes and you are gradually denying yourself the essence of who you are, and who you are capable of becoming.
While there are people who get a charge out of ripping off others by getting away with as little effort as possible (I know you’re not one of them ☺), I say the only person getting ripped off is you.
I’m Just Sayin’
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This reminds of a case I am in the middle of which is in a holding pattern waiting for the next surgery. I stayed in contact with them, but I felt like I could do more. I took several of the LegalNurse.com Advanced CLNC® Practice Building Program sessions to satisfy that lifetime student drive in me. The education gave me ideas of what to do next for this case.
By the way, I recently got a call from an attorney-client who gave me a good evaluation and I asked one of Vickie’s questions, “Are you doing any interesting cases right now that you need my help on?” She answered, “Yes, we are waiting for medical records and will call you when they get in.”
Thanks to everyone at LegalNurse.com – the education, tools and mentoring at my disposal is what’s getting me to the next case.
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This reminds of a case I am in the middle of which is in a holding pattern waiting for the next surgery. I stayed in contact with them, but I felt like I could do more. I took several of the LegalNurse.com Advanced CLNC® Practice Building Program sessions to satisfy that lifetime student drive in me. The education gave me ideas of what to do next for this case.
By the way, I recently got a call from an attorney-client who gave me a good evaluation and I asked one of Vickie’s questions, “Are you doing any interesting cases right now that you need my help on?” She answered, “Yes, we are waiting for medical records and will call you when they get in.”
Thanks to everyone at LegalNurse.com – the education, tools and mentoring at my disposal is what’s getting me to the next case.