What you'll learn

  • Identify and apply personal leadership strategies to better balance responsibilities as an emerging leader with elevated responsibility within the firm.

  • Build team leadership skills required for their evolving leadership role by learning to influence and motivate their team more effectively.

  • Develop stronger client relationships by effectively negotiating with, collaborating with, and managing clients to ensure opportunities for growth and long-term success for their business.

Course description

The Accelerated Leadership Program (ALP) is a, fully live, online program designed to advance early-stage to mid-stage partners of major law firms, and leaders of smaller legal organizations to the next level of leadership. The program focuses on four dimensions of leadership: client, practice, people and team, and personal leadership. Participants leave the program with the perspectives, concepts, and tools they need to succeed as effective leaders in their firms.

Course Outline

Key Concepts

  • Client leadership: How to deepen and broaden client relationships and communicate more effectively with clients about value, pricing, and collaboration.
  • Practice leadership: How to analyze and develop business unit strategy, build and drive internal collaboration, and develop a keen awareness of the critical levers for building a thriving practice.
  • People and team leadership: How to develop, motivate, and manage people and teams more effectively, and understand and apply research-based recommendations for achieving organizational and team buy-in.
  • Personal leadership: How to have more impact as a leader by building self-awareness and a deeper understanding of how to work across differences more effectively.

Instructors

Faculty Director, Harvard Law School Executive Education; Faculty Chair, Leadership in Law Firms; Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School

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Price
$14,750
Duration
4 days long
Registration Deadline
Starts Oct 29