RPI​ COACHING

Objectives

 

• Accelerating the development and enhancing the contribution of legal leaders who occupy key positions and are ready to assume greater leadership within your Legal Function.

• Ensuring strong succession for your Legal Function.

• Developing the effectiveness of those leaders with five critical aspects of their roles: 

  1. High-Performance Team – Building and leading a best-in-class team and department

  2. Effective Manager – Developing fundamental aspects of managing business and people

  3. Exceptional Service – Providing responsive and exceptional legal services to internal clients

  4. Strategic Leader and Thought Partner – Developing effective partnerships with senior leaders and stakeholders

  5. Executive Presence – Developing ease and ability in effectively engaging with executives.

 

Content Outline

 

• High-Performance Team – Building and leading a best-in-class team and department

  • Developing a vision and strategy for your department - line of sight

  • Establishing the priorities of your department for the year

  • Communicating to engage both your team and clients with vision and strategy

  • Assessing your team in the context of the ambitions of the organization

  • Designing the right organizational structure

  • Building a winning team – never settle for less

  • Recruiting the right people – from strong processes to working with Human Resources

  • Training and developing your team – standing for their success
     

•  Management Excellence – Developing fundamental aspects of managing the business and people 

  • Leadership versus management

  • The 4 practices of exceptional managers

  • Managing time and priorities

  • Time discipline – allocation of your most precious resource

  • Holding effective team meetings

  • Setting measurable objectives; setting and managing clear expectations

  • Balancing the empowerment of people while maintaining appropriate engagement

  • Providing effective performance reviews
     

• Exceptional Service –  Enabling you to lead your area in providing exceptional legal services to the business

  • Developing a context for exceptional service – a business case for the “why?”

  • Exceptional service as a unique differentiator

  • The Mindset of Exceptional Service Providers – do you need to shift your own perspective?

  • The 5 practices of exceptional service

  • The importance of deep knowledge of the key business metrics

  • Ensuring your department’s appropriate level of expertise – expanding as needed

  • The power of seeking feedback from your client – how to do it effectively
     

• Strategic Leader and Thought Partner – Developing high value partnerships with senior leaders and stakeholders

  • Exploring what is possible with your key relationships through the concept of Contribution

  • Building a successful thought partner relationship

  • The virtue of generative listening in thought partner relationships

  • Preparing and delivering a presentation to the Executive Team or to the Board

  • Balancing Business with Legal integrity - supporting business leaders to implement vision/opportunities while ensuring the legal integrity of the organization
     

• ​Executive Presence – Building ease and ability in effectively engaging with executives

  • Developing a sense of self-confidence, expertise, and contribution

  • Developing an appropriate and authentic voice 

  • Building trust

  • Developing a sense of timing

  • Understanding the impact of presence – actions, omissions, body language, and purpose

 

 

Structure –  Over one year

 

• 12 monthly coaching sessions of 2 hours each 

• Assignments between sessions to use the coaching with real-time work and performance opportunities

• Real-time coaching  – discussions when needed between sessions 

• Leadership 360 Feedback – designed to identify leadership development opportunities