An associate in a leading law firm attends a half-day workshop, then two sessions of coaching as part of the firm’s leadership development programme. On paper, he is highly focused, yet his main contribution to the workshop was a series of “Yes, but…” responses. Are his comments a key to his disengagement? Param is cited as a leading individual in his area of corporate finance law in The Legal 500, and seen as highly valuable to the firm. He has been tipped as a high flyer on a prestigious new leadership development programme. Yet, in the workshop and in the first one-to-one coaching...