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The Essential Skills of a Managing Partner
 
Tutor: Peter Scott      CPD Hours:  TBC       Duration: TBC
 
Course Cost: TBC
 
SRA Ref: DQX/DIPA     Course Grade: Advanced
 
Introduction
This is a practical work-based course on the roles and responsibilities of a managing partner (or an equivalent job title) in a law firm, which will be bespoke to meeting your firm’s needs in terms of its leadership and management objectives This will focus, inter alia, on the key areas of
 
  • Identifying your firm’s strategic objectives and the challenges your firm must overcome during the next stage of its development if it is to meet those objectives;
  • Aligning your role, responsibilities and objectives with the achievement of your firm’s strategic goals;
  • Agreeing with your partners the precise mandate you will require and the resources to be made available to you if you are to ‘add value’ to your firm in a way that will enable it to achieve its goals.
  • Developing your skills and knowledge to enable you to successfully carry out your agreed mandate
 
The course is designed to provide you with practical skills for managing both external factors and the internal processes of change which may be necessary, if you are to successfully deliver results in these critical areas
 
Business Benefits & Solutions
This course on the roles and responsibilities of a managing partner will aim to provide you with:
  • An in-depth understanding of what as a managing partner you will be required to do to achieve your firm’s strategic goals, and the skills and qualities which will be required on your part to succeed in that task
  • An appreciation of your own leadership and management strengths and any areas which may need to be further developed by you
  • A development plan to help you achieve the required skill sets you will need for the role.
 
Course Aims
By the end of this course you will be able to demonstrate:-
  • An appreciation of the challenges facing your firm and its strategic objectives, and how your role as managing partner will need to be aligned with your firm’s goals if they are to be achieved.
  • That you have the necessary leadership, organisational and communication skills, as part of a change management process, to challenge if necessary existing cultures, values and methods of operating, with a view to achieving your firm’s goals.
  • How you are able, in relation to your partners and staff, to build their confidence and trust in your leadership and your abilities, in order to ‘take them with you’
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