Management Skills Training

What follows is a typical course outline. The course will be tailored to your needs.

Overview

This course is intended for:

• Partners, members, directors or sole practitioners with responsibility for the strategy and direction of the firm.
• Those who manage operations on a day to day basis whether partners, members, directors or middle managers.
• Anyone else who plays a supervisory role within a law firm.
• Anyone who is preparing to adopt one of the above roles.

Purpose

The course is intended to equip you with knowledge, understanding and skills that you will be able to develop over time and that will enable you to become a better manager. The course is short and so the content is limited but every effort will be made to adapt as much as possible to your personal needs. It should be seen as a launch pad for the continuous development of your management capability.

Specific Learning Objectives

By the time the course is over you should have increased your knowledge and understanding of:

1. The nature and history of management theory
2. Managers’ responsibilities
3. Hierarchies in management
4. Strategic management
5. Operational management
6. A systems concept of management
7. Control and feedback
8. Communication
9. Group behaviour
10. Financial management
11. Risk management
12. Management styles
13. Organisations
14. Work
15. Decision making
16. Leadership
17. Marketing
18. Team building
19. Managing yourself

You should also be more confident about:

1. Managing people
2. Managing finance
3. Managing other resources
4. Managing your time
5. Communicating more effectively
6. Leading others
7. Managing risk
8. Managing change
9. Making decisions

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