Back
Developing Strong Communications Skills - 101 Training™ (Standard)
10 Strategies to improve your communications skills
The Problem
Your team needs to get better at communicating.
Related challenges include:
- communications skills impact every aspect of in-house life
- some team members are frequently right but cannot get others to agree
- internal misunderstandings occur too often
- your team is looking for vocational skills development
- sending your team for external training is too expensive
- finding really practical/useful training is a challenge
- DIY training is extremely time intensive
- hearing from subject matter experts is more authoritative
Wouldn't it be great if you could access a powerful “on demand” training session to help your team overcome these challenges?
The GLS Solution
Our Developing Strong Communications Skills - 101 Training™ (Standard) is a highly interactive and entertaining training module specifically designed to equip your team to continually strengthen their communications skills.
This training module covers:
- what are “effective communications”
- the key features of an effective communication
- recognising the impact of poor communications skills
- recognising different communications settings (internal, external, boss, negotiations, etc)
- interpersonal skills worth developing in legal practice
- communicating and developing your meeting strategy
- effective communications strategies
- effective communications formulation toolkits
- what all good communicators have in common
- non-verbal cues 101
- 10 strategies to improve your communications.
Communications skills, like any skills, need to be developed and practiced. This module is for the team that wants to remove communications skills as an obstacle for achieving desired legal team outcomes.
All our training modules combine practical, efficiency-based content with highly interactive and engaging delivery methodologies designed to improve memory retention.
Each training module will be delivered by genuine experts in their field, in a way and at a time that is convenient to your team.
This GLS training module affords you the opportunity to ensure that you are delivering high quality training to your teams in an extremely professional fashion whilst allowing you to remain focused on your client facing priorities.
Problem solved.
Solution Deliverables
| 90min Session: | 90 Minute session delivered via videoconference to users located anywhere in the world. GLS uses Teams at its preferred platform but can work with any other vid conf platform if needed |
| Key Issue Focus: | Coverage of all the main issues of legal import that frequently arise in practice around this topic - and in this case the importance of communications skills to supporting effective legal practice |
| Behaviour Focused: | The session focuses on conveying “information application” techniques that will drive the right behavioral approach by your team to this subject - a more effective strategy than “wrote memorization”. They idea with this module is to help your team to continuously improve their communications skills |
| Pre-Session Materials: | A session teaser for your compliance team to circulate to proposed attendees, in order to introduce the session and kick start “issue” receptivity (Support Materials) |
| Supporting Slides: | A vibrant slide deck outlining the subject key issues – these will be branded in your livery if requested and can be made available digitally |
| Subject Matter Expert: | The session is led by subject matter experts who have developed strong communications skills specifically in the legal practice context |
| Q&A: | An interactive Q&A session to address queries from the workplace |
| Takeaway Materials: | Takeaway checklist for your team to pin to their desks, in order to reinforce the key messages from the training module. (Support Materials) |
| Online Audit: | An online audit for you to test audience retention 1 month after the session (Support Materials) |
| Digital Rights Available: | If you want the digital rights for the presentation - select the relevant tier |
Solution SLA Options and US$ Pricing
| Column one | Column two | Column three | Column four | Column five |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DELIVERABLES | Basic | Standard | Advanced | Complete |
| Pre-Session Materials | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Standard Training Modules | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Digital Rights | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Takeaway Materials (Slides/Checklists) | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Online Follow Up Test | ✓ | |||
| Price (excl. VAT) | $1,499 | $2,499 | $2,999 | $3,499 |
Pricing Comparison
| Big Law Review | US Rate | GLS Cost | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partner | $850 | $1,499 | 1h 42m |
| Senior Associate | $640 | $1,499 | 2h 20m |
| Blended Rate | $520 | $1,499 | 2h 53m |
| Associate | $480 | $1,499 | 3h 06m |
| Junior Associate | $420 | $1,499 | 3h 34m |
GLS RPLV Legal Operations Score
This solution’s GLS RPLV impact score:
| Resource Status: | Specialist | Repeater | Formative |
| Ease of Implementation: | Complex | Average | Easy |
| Value Demonstration/Visibility: | Low | Medium | High |
| Productivity Leverage Profile: | Low | Medium | High |
| IHL Line Optimisation: | Single | Multiple | All Lines |
IHL Critical Function Optimisation Targets
This solution enhances performance across the following critical in-house functions:
In-House Legal: Critical Functions / Processes
Compliance
Knowledge
General Counsel
Contracting
Managed Service
Human Capital
Legal Operations
Performance
Internal Client
Legal Tech
Data Analytics
Service Provider
Co. Sec.
IP
Disputes
GLS has identified 15 critical in-house processes/functions that are present in every world-class legal department. To learn what these functions are, their composition and how they interrelate to deliver efficient legal team performance outcomes - visit here.
