Talent Retention, Development and Management
Talent management means managing your talent as your organization’s greatest asset. It starts with recruiting the right people – people that match your firm values and culture – and it ends with individual career goals aligned to and supporting the achievement of your organization’s business performance goals.
My work with law firms in talent retention, development and management is focused on customizing local, national, regional and international talent management strategies and initiatives that “connect the dots” between top performing individuals and exceptional law firms so that your people know what your clients expect of them and consistently exceed those expectations!
Services Include:
Consulting
- Design of talent management and professional development governance structures: staffing, budget, communication plans, marketing plans, return on investment metrics, policies, procedures, protocols, systems and databases
- Design, development, implementation and evaluation of global talent management initiatives
- Design, customization and implementation of organizational, group and individual change and transition processes
- Job descriptions for talent management staff – junior to senior
- Facilitation of focus group meetings (inside the firm and with clients), feedback analysis and reports on findings
- Design, customization, implementation and analysis of skills gaps
- Design, customization and implementation of competency based development models (recruitment, professional development, career development, coaching, mentoring, training programs, evaluation, promotion, compensation and return on investment metrics)
- Design of performance evaluation, promotion and compensation systems, programs and training
- Upward and 360 performance reviews
- Design, customization and implementation of individual career plans
- Design, customization and implementation of practice group/area benchmarks
- Design, customization and implementation of competencies
- Design, customization and implementation of mentoring and career coaching programs and intiatives
- Design of e-learning, m-learning and social media tools in the delivery of training programs
Learning Programs
- Design, customization and implementation of professional development staff management learning programs (self, people, financial, internal client, managing up and down)
- Design, customization and implementation of support staff management training programs (self, people, financial, internal client, managing up and down)
- Effective listening and giving feedback training programs
- New associate orientation programs
- Lateral associate and partner orientation programs
- Business negotiation training
- Law firm business basics training
- Presentation skills training
- Raising your professional profile training
- Individual career plan training
- Leading change
- Managing and navigating change programs
- Cultural competency and international business etiquette
- Preparing for international secondments
Coaching
- Coaching chief talent officers and directors of professional development in strategic and business planning
- Coaching chief talent officers and directors of professional development on the design, development, implementation and evaluation of customized talent management functions
- Coaching chief talent officers and directors of professional development in international talent management function structures, policies, protocols, processes and practices