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Essential skills for practice – Leadership Programme for Newly Qualified Solicitors – Key Skills for Emerging Leaders

This leadership programme aimed at newly qualified solicitors will equip emerging leaders with the skills required to become great leaders. The success of any firm or organisation depends on strong leadership.

As a newly qualified solicitor your training and development continues as you face new challenges, a heavier workload and more responsibility while continuing to demonstrate your value. Being able to think like a leader is more important as we navigate the increasingly competitive and unpredictable legal landscape.

This programme will be delivered over three 60-minute sessions:

Session 1: The psychology of successful lawyering

This session enables you to develop greater self-awareness and understanding of your personal tendencies and equips you with the psychological and behavioural skills to ensure you have mastery over your mindset as you progress in your career.

Session 2: Social intelligence – the art of influence & leadership

In this session you will learn how you can develop your social intelligence to facilitate more productive working relationships, minimise interpersonal conflict and enhance your business development skills.

Session 3: Mindset-upgrade – thinking like a leader in law

In this session you will learn how to upgrade your personal leadership mindset using techniques based on the latest neuroscience and psychology research.

What this will cover
  • understand how self-awareness and personal tendencies impact career progression and leadership and how to take control
  • develop productive working relationships with colleagues, clients and stakeholders and enhance business development skills
  • build personal brand and upgrade personal leadership mindset
  • adapt to change, engage in innovative thinking and remain resilient
Learning outcomes

By the end of this three-part leadership programme, you will be equipped with the skills to:

Session 1: The psychology of successful lawyering

  • Increase your capacity to sustain consistent high performance
  • Operate from a peak psychological state on a daily basis
  • Understand and work more effectively with others
  • Develop your personal resilience and self-regulation skills for greater stress management

Session 2: Social intelligence – the art of influence & leadership

  • Use proven neuroscience strategies to develop your leadership capacity and positively influence colleagues, clients and other stakeholders
  • Operate more successfully within a high-performing team
  • Navigate conflict and engage in sensitive conversations

Session 3: Mindset-upgrade – thinking like a leader in law

  • Audit your current mindset in relation to growth mindset leadership competencies
  • Cultivate and apply the key growth mindset qualities associated with effective leadership
  • Develop a clear personal leadership charter to inform your role as an emerging leader
How you will learn

Practical insights and strategies on how to prepare for leadership as a newly qualified solicitor.

Original price was: £104.19.Current price is: £79.39. (ex VAT)

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Format
Online course
Course length
3 Hours

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