Ensure your workshops or conferences delivers an exceptional experience for those participating so that you increase general engagement within the Social Justice Sector.
IKD will work with you to design meetings, workshops and forums that improve organisational performance, strategise for the year ahead or up-skill and invigorate your teams.
Workshop topics that you might like to consider include;
Strategic thinking and innovation – the Social Justice Sector can suffer from battle weariness and activist fatigue syndrome. Energise your organisations by stepping back from the day to day to learn skills that will assist you to think into the future from a systems perspective. Build an innovative mindset and develop the organisational capability to create sustainable social change.
Manage push back and resistance – three methods to enable lawyers and professional staff to respond effectively to negative feedback or cynicism and turn resistance into a relationship-strengthening experience.
Emotional Intelligence – skills that develop a group of lawyers and general staff to deepen and strengthen their relationships with clients and each other, shifting the focus from legal tasks to relationships.
Manage stress to stay focussed – techniques and methods that will enable all staff working in the Social Justice Sector 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.
Work through and with conflict – review the five conflict styles, competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding and accommodating. Assess the value of each in interactions with clients, peers or external stakeholder groups. Identify preferred style/s and associated risks and opportunities.
Ego management – develop a deeper understanding about how to manage your own and your colleagues egos. Build strategies to create a team ego within your organisation to foster collaboration and expand levels of confidence and pride. Use this awareness to understand and work with egos in the Social Justice Sector as a whole.
When is it good enough? Managing the ‘Inner Critic’ – personal development for lawyers – 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 and under achievement. Review the causes of this professional mindset and learn strategies to transform the ‘inner critic’ to an ‘inner coach’ to drive high performance in a satisfying way.
CLD / CPD Points Yes
IKD Facilitators Geoffrey Still, Jil Toovey, Benny Tabalujan, Lisa Whiffen and Debby King-Rowley
Past participants Victorian Community Legal Centres, Victoria Legal Aid, PILCH and Legal Aid WA.
