Retreats & Presentations
An entrenched tradition in the marketplace, law firm retreats serve as an opportunity to discuss firm issues off-site, engaging lawyers in thinking creatively about the firm, their place in the firm and its future. In an era of increased demands from all directions, lawyers also often lack opportunity to meet their colleagues, to build relationships and develop the social capital that bonds them. Finally, with the competition for clients, services and talent, retreats can enhance a lawyer’s sense of being and important stakeholder in his or her firm.
The law firm retreat has therefore proven to be a valuable tool in achieving overall firm understanding and synchronicity among its members. Phoenix Legal is pleased to assist its clients with the planning, preparation and deliverables involved in a successful firm retreat.
To ensure that lawyers feel their time, money and weekend have been well used, it is essential that firms plan retreats with specific goals and objectives in mind. Because a partnership requires consensus before it can act on recommendations, another key component of any retreat should be the presence of a highly-skilled facilitator. Finally, follow-up is an important aspect of a retreat that is often neglected or forgotten, yet it is the capture of what was discussed that forms the basis of any future action.
Phoenix Legal can step in at any stage of the retreat process and assist your firm, from developing retreat topics and providing appropriate advance materials, to delivering content and facilitating discussion. While we typically customize our work to meet our client’s goals, the following is a sample list of topics we have done in the past:
- Succession Planning and Retirement
- The Leadership Challenge: A one-day workshop for law firm leaders
- Building Consensus: The Power of Collaborative Problem Solving
- Resilience : harnessing and managing your energy during difficult times
- Gender Talk : How Women & Men Communicate Differently at Work
- Leading from the Middle (for the administrative management team)
- Culture & Change
- Career Development : taking charge of your own career (for associates)
- Raising Self-Awareness: Personality, Interpersonal Relations & Conflict (a workshop utilizing three diagnostics and the interconnections between them)
- Success is not a Solo Game (Networking and Impression Management)
- The Great Divide : Managing the Multi-generational Law Firm
Most importantly, because we work exclusively with lawyers, Phoenix Legal brings to any retreat an understanding of the legal industry, familiarity and comfort with law firm personalities, and skill at managing and guiding group discussions.
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