Developing your Practice - training for law firms
Strategy and business planning
- Defining a vision for the future of the firm
- Market positioning and strategic intent
- Setting goals and objectives
- Putting together a business plan
- Building the firm's brand, culture and reputation
- Turning the vision into reality
Leadership skills
- Courage, ethics, vision and realism
- Leading in a partnership
- Personal qualities, skills and behaviours
- Being a role model. Walking the talk
- Giving direction and inspiring commitment
Strategy, tactics, goals and objectives
- Building high-performance teams
- Best practice in team building and development
- Personality profiling - getting the right skills person
- Teamwork within and across practice areas
- Maintaining motivation when the going gets tough
- Incentivising, rewarding and encouraging
- Handling conflict in the team
Recruitment planning and best practice
- Attracting, selecting and securing the best candidates
- Job and person specifications
- Linking recruitment to strategic intent
- Selection methods and recruitment interviews
- Criteria-based selection
- Competency-based questioning
Practical recruitment interviewing skills
- Partner development
- Preparing for partnership - making the transition
- Becoming a fully-rounded professional adviser
- Mapping out a career path
- Developing self-awareness of strengths - and developmental areas
- Balancing partner roles - fee-earning, marketing, client management, etc
- Maximising the value of your contribution to the partnership