Leadership Development

Competitive markets, demanding clients, and global markets present new challenges and new opportunities to many of today’s law firms. These firms must be dedicated to providing the range of skills and experience needed to succeed in this environment. A key area needed to maintain its strategic focus and organizational depth is that of strong leadership. Leadership is the ability to seize opportunities and lead people and firms to greatness. Organizational effectiveness depends upon the ability of managers to lead others as well as promote a work environment that fosters cooperation, teamwork and high performance. Wolf Management Consultants will assist you in developing and enhancing the capabilities of leaders in your firm through a customized leadership development program.

We offer a leading-edge learning opportunity designed to build and sharpen the global business leadership skills within your firm’s future or current leaders. This unique, highly customized, program explores the essence of leadership skills and behaviors needed in the competitive global business environment – a must for the ongoing strength of your law firm. The program is driven by business needs; specifically, it is designed to enhance the capabilities within future and current leaders to ensure the continued success of the firm.

It is with these fundamental beliefs in mind that drives the overall philosophy of our Leadership Program for attorneys:

• The program must be tied to existing firm values; the skills and behaviors taught in the program should support operationalizing these values
• The program should build on a set of leadership competencies unique to your firm
• Adults learn best by doing; therefore, the program will be structured around real work scenarios, and highly interactive workshops

Learning Experiences

• Actual learning experiences will include a combination of facilitated group sessions (workshops) and on-the-job learning experiences/applications (distributed basis).

             All learning experiences will incorporate both experiential and traditional learning models. We believe participants learn
             best when they experience and practice new skills.

Coaching sessions take place during and after the training. A quality coaching relationship will encourage effective use and further development of the business development skills taught in the program. Coaches also help attorneys to develop skills of self-observation, self-awareness, self-responsibility and self-mastery. These skills allow the leaders to continue to grow long after the coaching relationship ends. Studies have shown that training and coaching increased productivity by 88%, a significantly greater gain compared to training alone.

        Potential Learning Experience Topics

        Based on our previous experience with Leadership Development programs, we anticipate that your Leadership
        Development program will include (but not be limited to) the following high-level topic areas:

• Thinking Strategically
• Inspiring and Motivating teams
• Understanding the Business
• Building Collaboration and Consensus
• Managing and Resolving Conflict
• Communicating Effectively
• Problem-Solving and Decision Making
• Demonstrating Political Savvy on the Job
• Maintaining and Enhancing Team Member Self-Esteem
• Designing Clear, Concise Messages
• Managing Nonverbal Behaviors Effectively
• Developing Performance Goals and Standards
• Effectively Disciplining
• Providing Performance Feedback
• Supporting and Leading Change
• Leading Successful Projects