Leadership training for legal professionals
The Park Snyder Group offers legal professionals our Mini-MBA Leadership Series to practice and uplevel leadership, communication, and management skills in an accessible Lunch and Learn format.
Each one-hour session is designed to provide practical insights and actionable strategies that support client service, team collaboration, professional growth, and mindfulness.
*Approved as instructor for WA CLE Credits, 1 hour/session. Credit pending for each topic and event submission.
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What kind of leader are you under pressure?
Team members often misconstrue moments of stress as visibility into “who you really are” as a leader. Don’t be bogged down by pressure. Understand what your “flips” are and when they might happen. Use this knowledge to improve performance – for you and your team, at work and beyond.
Improve your mental health by breaking up with fear of failure
Many legal professionals and successful leaders suffer from fear failure the same way they fear physical pain. You do have to get it right for the clients, but you don’t have to be held back by fearing you may fail. Here’s what works to still take measured risks and build a culture of new thinking for you and your team.
Tolerating uncertainty
Learn and practice strategies for moving forward when you don’t have an operating manual. There’s nothing in law school or on the bar that teaches lawyers how to navigate the uncertainty of trial, client management, and internal firm dynamics. Embracing uncertainty is a critical skill to becoming a better leader. Learn how.
Leading with resilience in turbulent times
The legal profession is facing unprecedented uncertainty. Strengthening your individual and team resilience takes planning and practice. Incorporate the research driven strategies of “master resilience training” to emerge from challenge stronger than who you were going into the chaos.
Rainmaking for reluctant sellers
Associates and partners alike need to be bringing in new clients. Most lawyers dislike “sales” and just want to practice the law. Let’s reframe business development into strategies that help both the reluctant and the seasoned leaders optimize their interactions to more successfully bring in new clients.
Coaching for performance
Introduction to a coaching approach to develop talent, foster problem-solving, and build stronger team performance. This is a leadership discussion that will equip new and experienced leaders alike to become stronger coaches to develop the next generation of talent and achieve stronger results along the way.
Hard conversations as a shortcut to higher performance
Avoiding hard conversations reduces productivity, increases stress, and erodes team culture. Yet avoidance is common among most legal professionals. We provide strategies for preparing and engaging in hard conversations so you can use them to catapult yourself and your team into higher performance.
Giving meaningful feedback
Meaningful feedback - given in the right way, at the right time – is essential to enabling professional development and performance. As lawyers, you were not trained to give or receive feedback. This talk covers the key principles of effective feedback so that you can support your team, and focus on growth, leaving defensiveness behind.
Prioritizing like a pro
Prioritization enables professional success – and becomes more difficult and urgent to master as you grow in seniority. We’ll introduce frameworks for identifying high-impact tasks, managing competing demands, and building your skill to focus attention on what matters most as your plate remains overflowing.
Delegating effectively and without guilt
Many partners struggle with over-responsibility — often feeling they don’t have the time to delegate and worry they are further over-burdening their already busy team. This ends up most often with leaders thinking “it is just easier to do it myself”. Build confidence in setting clear expectations, supporting your team effectively and delegating without guilt, elevating the overall performance of you and your team.
Confident Leadership
Leadership of your team or amidst other partners requires a level of confidence and clarity that can be difficult given the many factors at play in a firm. Whether you are managing a smaller local team, a large team of lawyers across time zones, or navigating internal leadership challenges, learn how to achieve higher performance by leading through clarity, vision, and empowerment of others.
Finding your voice
Jane Park didn’t speak English when she was first dropped off at school at age four. Her father was a refugee separated from his family at age 9 when the border between North and South Korea was drawn between his home and school.
As a young law firm associate, Jane didn’t know how to act or what to say– so she stayed quiet. Then she learned the power of finding her true professional voice.
how can we help?
Interested in our mini-MBA program for legal professionals? We can create a customized series for you.
Fill out the form to the right or email us directly at: hello@parksnydergroup.com.