Editor’s note: This column is part of a biweekly series for The American Lawyer called The Fully Human Lawyer. Written by leadership coach and former attorney Lauren Krasnow, the series explores challenges lawyers often encounter at work and shows how a leadership coach approaches and helps lawyers solve these challenges. All identities have been altered to maintain confidentiality. Read the first column here.

Dave, a partner, was exhausted. He was looking forward to a beach vacation and some much-needed time with his family. Taylor, an associate, drafted a document and gave it to Dave as promised, before leaving to attend a family wedding. While Taylor thought the draft was “final enough,” it required so much revision that Dave spent most of his vacation redoing it. Dave returned to work even more exhausted, his spouse and kids angry and disappointed.