CPD Mandatory Core Areas for All Lawyers on 6 March
Issues covered include: undertakings, professional conduct, neuroscience, psychological safety, leadership excellence, digital tools, content creation
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Description
Effective leadership and smart business skills are essential to a successful lawyer in today’s competitive market. Examine vital topics on digital tools to save you time, how to lead more effectively through a better understanding of neuroscience, and knowing your obligations around undertakings and mistakes. Attend and fine tune your skills to strengthen a well-rounded and successful legal career.
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Practical Legal Ethics
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This seminar was recorded in QLD on 6 March 2019
Chair: Tim Matthews QC, Inns of Court
Practical Legal Ethics
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Lawyers Obligations in Relation to Undertakings and Dealing with Inadvertent Mistakes
- Understanding the obligation, ethical principles and professional conduct issues
- Why use undertakings: Are they enforceable?
- What are the consequences of breaches?
- Oversights and errors: What to do when you become aware of a mistake
- Benefits of coming clean immediately
- Putting it in practice: common scenarios and possible options
Presented by Les Power, Legal Practice Director, Wilson Lawyers
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: How to Lead with the Brain and Mind
When it comes to influencing, engaging and motivating others, what’s happening in the brain makes all the difference. Neuroscience is unlocking secrets to what really matters when leading others, but more importantly why it matters.
- Why psychological safety matters in leading others and how to create environments that facilitate psychological safety
- How understanding the brain works can support you in managing yourself and others
- Why attentional intelligence is the third intelligence for leadership excellence
Presented by Linda Ray, Founder and Chief Product Officer, NeuroCapability
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Practice Management & Business Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Time Saving Digital Shortcuts, Tools & Tips to Do More in Less Time
With the available digital tools & apps available, why work harder when you can work smarter? Learn simple low-cost tactics and tools to do what you need in a fraction of the time it might be taking you now.
- How a plan can actually save you time
- Tools to make the content creation & scheduling process easier & faster
- Tips the experts use to do hours of week in a fraction of the time
Presented by Tanya Williams, Digital Conversations
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