Leadership Development Program for Chief Legal Officers

Objectives

• To cultivate and nurture CLOs as future top management leaders in an organisation  
• To inculcate the idea of CLOs as key enabler of business
• CLOs to function as strategic thinker aligning with organizational goals
• To develop skills to become an effective people manager in an organization
• To understand the diverse role of CLOs as conscience keeper, negotiator, value protector and trusted advisor to Board and the Company
• Effective engagement with the Board and Governments

Contents

Strategic thinking and organizational alignment

• Understanding corporate strategy, the need for alignment with organizational and CEO’s strategic vision.

Leadership skills

• Exploring the changing requirement of roles within an organisation and leading to taking up leadership positions.

Gandhi Ashram Visit and conversations

• An evening visit to Sabarmati Ashram

Resolving ethical conflicts, operating in grey area and negotiating 

• Navigating ethical and legal dilemmas while operating in grey/unprecedent situations.

Team development through Mentoring and Developing talent

• Different approaches to developing colleagues, motivating the team, and understand the organizational systems.

Persuasion and influencing; working through crisis

• Making decisions through persuasion and influencing without duress. The session(s) will explore changing attitude, behaviour, and how to influence.

Enabler for businesses and Emerging role and challenges of CLO

• Looking at the role and function of CLO, understanding Issues and organizational dynamics CLOs face.

Right mindset and behaviour

• Exploring the right kind of mindset and behaviour could help grow at the workplace and how to raise the bar for personal and professional growth.

Financial analysis for decision making.

• The sessions will cover fundamental of financials of the companies to better understand the important of financial skills in decision making. 

Dealing with the Board; Governmental affairs and policy

• The session(s) will explore the nature of engagement with the Boards and also how legal Officer of a company engages with governmental and legal authorities in terms of compliance, policy and disputes.

Pedagogy

The programme is taught by globally recognised IIMA faculty with diversity of skills and expertise. The programme extensively uses case study method of learning. Real and hypothetical business problems are posed requiring class conversation and engagement. The faculty draws its experience in company boards, consulting, and research to deliver insights.     

For Whom

The programme is targeted for:

• Chief Legal Officers/ General Counsels
• CLOs who work as Chief Risk, Ethical, Compliance Officers
• Associate General Counsels
• Vice Presidents -Law
• Heads of Legal Departments
• Legal Directors
• GCs as Company Secretary