Empowered practice leaders create a more resilient firm, enabling stronger performance at every level.
Successful firms recognize the critical role practice groups and other business unit leaders play in driving business excellence. At the same time, these are some of the hardest roles in firms as they juggle busy personal practices and demanding leadership priorities. So, when leaders step into these roles, they often want and need specialized training to refine their skills and maximize their impact. We design training workshops to equip your leaders with essential management and leadership skills and the support needed to succeed.
Practice leaders have one of the toughest jobs in a firm.
To enable practice leaders to succeed and to keep their personal practice growing, our sessions provide fundamental skills in leading a practice or industry group. Depending on a firm’s specific desires, our customized workshops tackle critical topics such as building high-performing teams, leading change, driving lawyer engagement, feedback and coaching, group dynamics, practice group business planning and emotional intelligence, to name a few — not simply as lofty theories, but as effective tools that empower practice leaders to navigate the complexities of the legal landscape today.
We wrote the book on practice group management… literally.
We understand that practice leader training is unique in every firm. Although we did write the book on practice group management, our experience has demonstrated a wide diversity of needs among law firm leaders. That’s why we offer bespoke management and leadership training programs tailored to your firm’s unique culture and approach to practice management.
What You Can Expect
Beyond the substantive content of our leadership programs that we customize to our client’s needs, our training sessions focus on five key objectives:
Clarify Roles and Expectations for Practice Leaders
Role clarity is one of the keys to ownership and effective leadership. It minimizes conflict and fosters productivity and collaboration.
Alignment and Consistency
A unified vision across the organization generates trust, promotes decision-making, and creates an environment in which leaders can excel.
Inspire Confidence and Enthusiasm
Practice leaders equipped with the necessary training and strategies can ignite their passion as leaders and inspire others to create a dynamic culture.
Enhance Effectiveness and Efficiency
When leaders know what is expected and how to do it, they don’t waste valuable investment time on the wrong priorities or doing things in the wrong way. Leadership training is a process that is critical to maintaining relevance and effectiveness via sharpening existing skills and developing new ones.
Skill Development
Customized training focuses on engaging skill-building exercises to enhance specific competencies crucial for effective leadership.
Our training evolves with your firm’s needs, ensuring that your practice leaders are equipped to navigate the growing complexities of the legal landscape with new behaviors in key leadership competencies.
What Sets Our Program Apart
Unlike traditional lecture-style programs, our workshops are highly engaging and action-oriented. We have provided over 200 training sessions for practice leaders and other firm leadership roles over the past 30 years and continue to inform our methodology to best engage the lawyers and professionals we train.
Our goal is to equip each leader with actionable strategies tailored to their specific group dynamics. Each session covers a diverse range of issues that address the varied needs of today’s practice leaders.
Don’t settle for mediocrity. Elevate your practice leadership with our substantive results-driven workshops.
