Our team of development consultants consists of a variety of highly experienced psychologists and other consultants with similar qualifications. We offer a range of services, both at the individual, team and wider organisational level.

Coaching

We understand that senior lawyers encounter a wide range of challenging issues that can sometimes block their career progression or even threaten to derail it. We provide individual coaching services to senior lawyers who benefit from the opportunity to work with an experienced coach and thereby re-engage with both their business and personal life in a productive and positive manner.

Coaching helps senior lawyers build high functioning relationships with colleagues and clients, and to stay motivated. Strong relationships with both colleagues and clients yield bottom-line success. Motivated lawyers work efficiently and stay focused. They win new business and retain clients.

Team Development

High functioning teams deliver top results. They are greater than the sum of their parts. Dysfunctional teams sap energy from their individual members and are a drain on the organisation.

We work both with good teams and dysfunctional teams. Good teams benefit from team coaching to help them make the leap from being good to being great. Dysfunctional teams benefit from an external consultant who can identify what is going wrong and help fix it. Our consultants are highly experienced facilitators who use a wide range of tools and techniques to help develop the high functioning team and set the dysfunctional team back on track.

Selection & Assessment

Our consultants are expert at designing one-off selection processes. Recruitment of senior lawyers can be highly successful or a disastrous fiasco. Investing in rigorous individual assessment can help avoid a costly mistake, and provide an invaluable cross-check to the internal selection process.

Other services

These include:

• Providing highly skilled consultants to facilitate the process of organisational development or change, where in-house legal departments need expert help
• Providing bespoke seminars and workshops in a number of areas, such as wellbeing and work/life balance, conflict management and team development.

Our seminars and workshops in the area of wellbeing and work/life balance help lawyers find workable and realistic compromises that enhance both work and home life. In our experience, work/life balance issues are particularly important in an environment where increasing client demands need to be balanced against the need to retain the brightest and best talent. Such talent requires a work culture in which it can thrive. The responsible employer will both help to shape that culture and support key talent in shaping its own ideal, individual, work/life balance.

Our seminars and workshops in the field of conflict management help lawyers develop or refine conflict management, mediation and negotiation skills. Conflict occurs in a wide variety of contexts – with colleagues, with clients and with external professionals. Learning new skills to mediate conflict can unblock dysfunctional relationships and lead to new, productive, working relationships.