Associate to Partner - Module 2: Working Within

Develop interpersonal skills for your professional success

Introduction

The skills of a Senior Lawyer must evolve to keep pace with changes in professional and client demands and expectations. Technical excellence, fee earning and robust financial management are as important as ever but Senior Lawyers need to develop more comprehensive and wide ranging skills to allow them to improve their performance, realise their potential and capitalise on development and promotion opportunities.

The focus of Associate to Partner is to create or expand such skills by building the attributes and values which enable individuals both to flourish independently and to create positive, collaborative and co-operative relationships in the workplace.

The programme explores five themes, building up from a basic understanding of psychological concepts on a step-by-step basis.

Who should attend?

Associate to Partner is a skills development programme for lawyers with between 3 and 6 years PQE. The programme aims to develop performance and realise potential in Senior Lawyers, using theory and studies drawn from psychological science and developmental processes.

Course Dates

To get the most from the programme, we strongly recommend that delegates attend all five modules, however you can book individual sessions if desired.

Cohort dates

• Module 1: 30 September 2020
• Module 2: 29 October 2020
• Module 3: 25 November 2020
• Module 4: 17 December 2020
• Module 5: 20 January 2020

If all five modules are booked at the same time, the cost of the full programme is £2,000 + VAT. Please note, this only applies if all five modules are booked at the same time, otherwise the modules cost £460 + VAT if booked individually. To book the full programme, please call 2020 226 2422 or email [email protected].

Module 2: Working Within

A Senior Lawyer must have the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues and clients. This will require collaborative abilities in order to achieve improved organisational performance.

How do we work successfully within hierarchical structures, alone and in groups?

This one-day course builds upon the processes examined in Module 1, by considering authority and conformity; difficult behaviour and group behaviour in the workplace, helping you to create a collaborative, co-operative and high performance environment.

Session 1: Follow the leader?

Some of the most famous experiments in psychology have been conducted into the power of authority, conformity and the context or situation in which an individual functions. This session will help you to:

• Understand the impact of authority figures on people working in hierarchical structures
• Recognise why we like to conform to the behaviour of others
• Appreciate how the fundamental attribution error operates and how to avoid making it



Session 2: Difficult people and behaviour

What makes a person “difficult” to deal with? What makes a conversation inherently difficult? This session will help you to:

• Learn how to distinguish a “bad apple” from a “bad barrel”
• Understand the characteristics of the Dark Triad personality types
• Recognise four behaviours which cause difficulties in relationships
• Understand the importance of empathy
• Learn how you can handle difficult conversations



Session 3: Group behaviour

We tend to behave differently in groups to the way in which we do as individuals. This session will help you to:

• Understand how groups form and create an identity
• Appreciate how groupthink and polarisation may operate
• Design strategies to maximise the effectiveness of group and team dynamics
• Recognise when, and why, group leaders mistakenly believe they have a consensus
• Understand what happens when groups make decisions and how to maximise the success of the process

Module 1: Mind Matters
Module 3: Inside Out
Module 4: Inspiring Others - Delegation & Feedback
Module 5: Inspiring Others - Coaching & Mentoring

"A CPD certificate of completion will be provided by BPP Professional Education Limited upon request, following attendance."

Course Dates

Location	Dates	Time	Availability
London	29 Oct 2020	9:30 AM - 5:00 PM	Spaces	Book Now