Leadership Development Program for Chief Legal Officers
IIM Ahmedabad - Executive Education
Leadership, People & HR
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About Programme
The Chief Legal Officer/General Counsel (CLO) plays a critical function in any company. CLOs’ provide legal advice to the management and undertake day to day legal operations, and importantly, they also represent the company in many capacities. The role of a CLO in a business is diverse and draws on a range of skills. With the growing importance of law in strategic decision making of a company and conduct of overall business environment, CLOs need to demonstrate leadership capability in both managerial and legal decision making. Sometimes these roles may also blur when acting as advisor to the management team and upholding organisational interests. This requires skillset that is adaptable to the needs of the company. Further, course will also attempt to explore the ways and means in transitioning from a legal role to a managerial role within the company.
Programme Content
Strategic thinking and organizational alignment
Understanding corporate strategy, the need for alignment with organizational and CEO’s strategic vision.
Leadership skills
Exploring the changing requirement of roles within an organisation and leading to taking up leadership positions.
Gandhi Ashram Visit and conversations
An evening visit to Sabarmati Ashram
Resolving ethical conflicts, operating in grey area and negotiating
Navigating ethical and legal dilemmas while operating in grey/unprecedent situations.
Team development through Mentoring and Developing talent
Different approaches to developing colleagues, motivating the team, and understand the organizational systems.
Persuasion and influencing; working through crisis
Making decisions through persuasion and influencing without duress. The session(s) will explore changing attitude, behaviour, and how to influence.
Enabler for businesses and Emerging role and challenges of CLO
Looking at the role and function of CLO, understanding Issues and organizational dynamics CLOs face.
Right mindset and behaviour
Exploring the right kind of mindset and behaviour could help grow at the workplace and how to raise the bar for personal and professional growth.
Financial analysis for decision making
The sessions will cover fundamental of financials of the companies to better understand the important of financial skills in decision making.
Legal Strategy
How can CLOs anticipate business risk and equally drive competitive advantage? This is not just for compliance, instead use legal insights to foresee future business environment.
Working with other functional roles; Marketing and Sales
CLOs work very closely with many business heads. It is important to know how other functional heads think and act, in order to facilitate and enable business, and at the same time convey the legal boundaries
Dealing with the Board; Governmental affairs and policy
The session(s) will explore the nature of engagement with the Boards and also how legal Officer of a company engages with governmental and legal authorities in terms of compliance, policy and disputes.
Programme Objective
To cultivate and nurture CLOs as future top management leaders in an organisation
To inculcate the idea of CLOs as key enabler of business
CLOs to function as strategic thinker aligning with organizational goals
To develop skills to become an effective people manager in an organization
To understand the diverse role of CLOs as conscience keeper, negotiator, value protector and trusted advisor to Board and the Company
Effective engagement with the Board and Governments
Pedagogy
The programme is taught by globally recognised IIMA faculty with diversity of skills and expertise. The programme extensively uses case study method of learning. Real and hypothetical business problems are posed requiring class conversation and engagement. The faculty draws its experience in company boards, consulting, and research to deliver insights.
Programme Audience
The programme is targeted for:
Chief Legal Officers/ General Counsels
CLOs who work as Chief Risk, Ethical, Compliance Officers
Associate General Counsels
Vice Presidents -Law
Heads of Legal Departments
Legal Directors
GCs as Company Secretary
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