IKD works with legal teams to ensure off-site workshops or conferences provide a meaningful experience for all. Whether your intention is to improve team performance, plan for the year ahead or up-skill your team, IKD will collaborate with you to develop an innovative and impactful learning experience.
The following are examples of topics that can be delivered as half or full day workshops or one hour presentations.
Emotional Intelligence for lawyers – the skills that develop a legal team’s ability to deepen and strengthen their relationships with clients and each other, shifting their focus from the legal tasks to relationships.
Mindfulness techniques for lawyers – techniques and methods that will enable lawyers to focus the mind to increase levels of well being. By increasing consciousness and awareness of thinking patterns it is possible to make better decisions.
Ego management – develop a deeper understanding about how to manage your own and your client’s egos. Build strategies to create a team ego both within the legal team, as well as with clients and peers.
Lawyers lead an ethical culture – assess current performance in your organisation regarding an ethical mindset. Develop strategies for the legal teams to lead thinking in this critical area of organisational performance.
When is it good enough? Managing the ‘Inner Critic’ –– lawyers as a 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.
Commerciality skills for in-house lawyers – define what commerciality means to you and your business clients. Explore the tension that can pull lawyers away from providing commercial advice. Identify the skills that enable you to manage risk and support business growth.
Manage push back and resistance from the business – three methods to enable lawyers to respond effectively to negative feedback and turn resistance into a relationship-strengthening experience.
CLD / CPD Points Yes
IKD Facilitators Geoffrey Still, Jil Toovey, Benny Tabalujan, Lisa Whiffen and Debby King-Rowley
Past participants Caltex, Telstra, BHBP, NAB, CBA, PILCH, HATCH, Dell, Siemans, Kraft, OneSteel, Orica, Babcock and Brown
