Leadership Development Program for Chief Legal Officers

Objectives

• Inculcate strategic thinking and aligning with organizational goals.
• Changing mindset to position CLOs as key enabler of business.
• Develop leadership skills to become an effective inhouse lawyer and manager.
• Building and managing large teams.
• Understanding diverse roles of CLOs as conscience keeper of the company and trusted advisor to top management team.

Contents

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

• Resolving ethical conflicts and operating in grey area
  How to navigate ethical conflicts and legal dilemmas while operating in unprecedent situations, including decision making in crisis.

• Team development through mentoring and developing talent
  Different approaches to developing colleagues, motivating the team, becoming a people manager, and understand the organizational systems.

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

• Financial Analysis for Decision Making
  Understanding financial statement and making sense of numbers for appreciation of company operations.

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

• Enabler for businesses and transition into management role.
  Explore how legal departments can become business enabler and not treated as cost centers. Transition from lawyer to manager with the expertise of law.

• Tools for Decision Making
  The session(s) will explore the tools available for better decision making.

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

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
-          Chief Risk and Compliance Officers
-          Associate General Counsels
-          Vice Presidents -Law
-          Heads of Legal Departments
-          Legal Directors
-          Company Secretary