Leadership Courses

Every day Law Firms rely on their people to provide the skills and services that their clients and business require. These courses cover a wide range of topics that develop your leadership, communication and people skills.

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• Analyse and select the leadership and management style that suits you and your firm.
• Strategies on how to overcome people’s natural resistance to change.
• Develop a detailed Action Plan identifying what needs to be done to achieve the changes. 

• Implement your identified Action Plan to develop your firm into a ‘learning organisation’
• Cope with resistance to change at all levels across your organisation
• Identify and overcome barriers to change

• Understand your leadership style and that of your team leaders.
• Set a clear strategic direction and allocate clear roles for the team members.
• Communicate successfully, encourage and motivate the teams that you lead.
• Develop your staff by effective delegation and a coaching style of leadership so that they work to their full potential. 

• Understand your role as a team leader and your leadership style.
• Develop, implement and evaluate the success of a team development plan.
• Set a clear strategic direction for your team and allocate clear roles for the team members.
• Develop the talent of your staff by effective coaching and delegation so that they work to their full potential. 

• Understand the importance of and the various stages of a tailored talent development strategy.
• Understand how people learn and how best to motivate them.
• Assess the current learning and development gaps at your firm.
• Implement the appropriate learning and development solutions to meet individual and business priorities. 

• Identify the type of changes that are necessary given the business needs and culture of the firm.
• Understand the stages that individuals go through before accepting and being committed to the change process.
• Plan and use the appropriate tools and procedures to sustain the change in the short and longer term.
• Effectively communicate the objectives and benefits of the proposed changes to win the support of your staff. 

• Create a plan for the development of the group including specific objectives for yourself.
• Manage your team in a way which increases motivation and promotes collaboration among team members.
• Delegate more effectively, increasing profitability and creating time.
• Manage development and performance in a practical way and deal with ‘difficult’ people issues. 

• Analyse your own and your teams time usage in a practical, action oriented way.
• Create clear objectives for you and your team, and a plan to deliver them.
• Create a system which will enable you and the team to work in a coordinated manner.
• Share work and delegate in an effective way. 

• Conduct a thorough audit of the effectiveness of current internal communication within the firm, and the needs for the future.
• Create a clear and practical communication strategy and ‘sell’ it to the firm.
• Manage any ‘them and us’ culture and/or mistrust between partners and other staff.
• Develop techniques for managing difficulties in implementing business plans and change initiatives. 

• Create clear, seat specific development plans for trainees, which meet with SRA guidelines.
• Communicate objectives to supervisors and trainees and ensure necessary action is taken to achieve them.
• Delegate and coach trainee solicitors effectively and to train others to do so.
• Plan and execute a positive one to one feedback session with a trainee, and conduct effective formal reviews. 

• Review your existing recruitment policies and their effectiveness.
• Create a plan for future recruitment requirements based on business plan objectives and the need for succession planning.
• Create relevant job specifications and descriptions.
• Design and conduct criteria/competency based interviews.