In-House Legal Tip: Lead or Languish

The keys to effective legal team leadership are undergoing rapid change in an industry that is being dragged from the ice age. 

Gone are the days when what happened beyond the doors of the legal dept. were solely matters for General Counsels and their network of chums and personal preferences. 

Running a legal function is now subject to the same kind of planning and performance expectations as any other business competency. It is data driven, outcome focused and increasingly accountable. And, if this currently doesn’t apply to you – then it soon will.

Strong legal function leadership does not occur by accident. It takes active planning, intentional execution and a continuous ability to adapt and innovate. 

For GLS, “legal team leadership” is one of the 15 critical in-house legal “functions” that will determine the overall performance outcomes of a legal dept. and has implications for every other critical IHL function. 

In our online interactive legal team transformation tool – we have identified the 22 “core resource enablers” that ultimately determine the contribution that legal team leadership can make to overall function performance: 

GLS TRANSFORMATION TUBE MAP 

To keep ahead and thrive, in-house leaders need to have a plan to optimize each and every aspect of what it takes to deliver optimised in-house legal team leadership into your legal function – it cannot be left to chance.

We encourage all in-house leaders to utilize our in-house transformation tool and to consider how their (i) leadership planning, and (ii) operational environment, stacks for the delivery of optimal leadership performance. 

You can see all 22 critical resource enablers of effective “in-house legal team leadership” in our tool, along with the 14 other critical in-house legal team functions that will determine the overall functional performance of your legal dept.

You can check out this tool at: GLS Transformation Tube Map  

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