Leadership Development Program for Chief Legal Officers
| Start Date: | Apr 15, 2025 | End Date: | Apr 19, 2025 |
| Last Date for Application: | April 1, 2025 | Last Date for Early Bird: | March 25, 2025 |
| Programme Fee: |
200000 INR Plus, GST |
Early Bird Fee: |
186000 INR Plus, GST |
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The Chief Legal Officer/General Counsel (CLO) plays a critical function in any company. CLOs’ provide legal advice to the management and undertake day to day legal operations, and importantly, they also represent the company in many capacities. The role of a CLO in a business is diverse and draws on a range of skills. With the growing importance of law in strategic decision making of a company and conduct of overall business environment, CLOs need to demonstrate leadership capability in both managerial and legal decision making. Sometimes these roles may also blur when acting as advisor to the management team and upholding organisational interests. This requires skillset that is adaptable to the needs of the company. Further, course will also attempt to explore the ways and means in transitioning from a legal role to a managerial role within the company.
- 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
- The idea and purpose of company and business
- The session(s) will cover and re-emphasis the logic, purpose, limits, and governance of corporation and under company law.
- The session(s) will cover and re-emphasis the logic, purpose, limits, and governance of corporation and under company law.
- Strategic thinking and organizational alignment
- Understanding corporate strategy, the need for alignment with organizational and CEO’s strategic vision.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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
