Ensuring your workshops or conference delivers an exceptional experience for your lawyers and general staff for those participating helps increase general engagement.
IKD works with lawyers and managers in numerous industry sectors in the lead up to their off-sites to ensure the right goals are identified and the workshop provides a meaningful experience for all. Whether your intention is to improve team performance, strategise for the year ahead or up-skill your team, IKD will collaborate with you to develop an innovative and impactful process.
Workshop topics you might like to consider include:
Emotional Intelligence for legal teams- the skills that develop a team’s ability to deepen and strengthen their relationships with sector stakeholders, clients and each other, shifting their focus from the tasks to relationships.
Managing stress to stay focussed – techniques and methods that will enable lawyers and other professional staff to distinguish between positive stress (eu-stress ) and negative stress (dis-stress )and build effectiveness by staying focussed, calm and mindful of the critical rather than the urgent issues.
Working through and with conflict – review five conflict styles and the value of each in the team to ensure effective interactions in conflict situations. Identify preferred style/s and associated risks and opportunities.
Ego management – develop a deeper understanding about how to manage your own, each others’ and your client’s egos. Build strategies to create a team ego within your organisation so you can collaborate at a more sophisticated level of self awareness.
Lawyers as effective networkers – develop a plan to strengthen and expand operational, personal and strategic networks to generate opportunities for yourself, your team and your organisation.
When is it good enough? Managing the ‘Inner Critic’ – personal development for lawyers – lawyers as professionals are particularly hard on themselves. Trained to objectively analyse, locate flaws and drive perfectionism, lawyers are prone to apply these skills when self critiquing, which can lead to feelings of failure or under achievement. Review the causes of this professional mindset and learn strategies to transform the ‘inner critic’ to an ‘inner coach’ that drives high performance in a satisfying way.
Facilitating thinking - the impact of effectively facilitating thinking is to successfully engage and influence audiences on a wide range of topics. Rather than focusing on the content only and simply ‘telling’, investing time in encouraging and facilitating thinking can achieve authentic commitment and understanding.
Managing external relationships – assess the performance of external law firms, associations, government departments and other stakeholders to identify what aspects of your interaction needs to be improved. Review the latest thinking about the relationship and methods that will deliver mutual benefits. Develop an engagement plan to improve performance and relationships.
Strategic and innovative thinking – to become an irreplaceable and valued resource, organisations must think strategically and innovatively about how best to lead thinking and influence for successful outcomes.
CLD / CPD Points Yes
IKD Facilitators Geoffrey Still, Jil Toovey, Benny Tabalujan, Lisa Whiffen and Debby King-Rowley
Past participants PILCH, CLCs, West Australia Legal Aid and Victoria Legal Aid
