law firm facilitation sKILLS leadership bootcamp
The Law Firm Facilitation Skills Leadership Bootcamp provides intensive personal training and peer learning to give you the skills you need to effectively lead teams in a law firm environment.
*12 CLE credits are approved by the Georgia Bar. Georgia CLE credits are accepted in New York, California, and many other jurisdictions. Please check your local bar for Georgia Bar CLE reciprocity.
Are Your Meetings Efficient and Inclusive?
Most law schools do not teach attorneys how to be effective managers or facilitate inclusive team meetings. As a result, too many legal team leaders unknowingly stoke high attrition rates. The failure to inclusively facilitate meetings causes inefficiency, the marginalization of valuable talent, and decisions that do not harness the collective wisdom of diverse perspectives. This results in a loss of revenue and client trust.
Diverse Teams Make Better Decisions and Increase Revenue
Teams that follow an inclusive process make decisions 2X faster with half the number of meetings needed and inclusive teams make better decisions up to 87% of the time. Additionally, companies with highly diverse teams have a 2.5 times higher cash flow per employee.
Inclusive Facilitation is a Key Competency
Law firms have unique power dynamics, in addition to demographics, that require unlearning tactics of debate and learning tools of dialogue to ensure inclusion in meetings. When there is diversity, there will be differences. Whether those differences result in innovation and heightened productivity or dysfunction, frustration, and marginalization depends on the skill of those facilitating meetings.
FACILITATION SKILLS BOOTCAMP OVERVIEW
The Law Firm Facilitation Skills Leadership Bootcamp provides a tested and proven four-week intensive training program designed for both lawyers and law firm business service professionals. With on-demand video, readings, and experiential work leading up to and in-between live sessions, the live on-line sessions contain both learning and practical application components. An optional Leadership Lab, which includes peer support and 1-on-1 coaching, is an opportunity for you to discuss difficult situations and receive help on specific situations you face. Additionally, you will receive over 20+ fully-customizable templates, checklists, tools, and guides. Interactive and engaging, this training will equip you with the skills you need to lead a diverse team, harness their collective wisdom, and intentionally facilitate for inclusion.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
How to Create Psychological Safety
Research by Harvard and Google concluded psychological safety is the #1 factor influencing the success of a team. We will teach you practical techniques for creating psychological safety and promoting trust.
How to Turn Debate Tactics into Dialogue Skills
Lawyers are trained in debate skills, but this approach can be detrimental to welcoming diverse views in meetings. We will teach you how to turn off learned debate tactics and embrace dialogue.
How to Navigate Law Firm Power Dynamics
Law firms have unique power dynamics where equity partners retain most authority, but others (including business service professionals) have responsibility over functions. We will explore how to navigate those dynamics
How to Encourage a Growth Mindset in a Law Firm Environment
The legal environment is rapidly changing and norms are shifting. We will discuss how to embrace change in a way that doesn’t cause dysfunction and encourages progress.
How to Harness Collective Wisdom in Legal Decision-Making
We will teach you methods for maximizing innovation, creativity, and high-quality legal decision-making, including specific problem-solving tools.
How to Handle Difficult Situations
We will teach you practical skills and provide tools for how to handle microaggressions, dominating personalities, high emotions, power imbalances, and derailing behaviors.
How to Minimize the Need for Code-Switching and Embrace Authenticity
Law firms historically reflect white-male cultural patterns, which those from other backgrounds feel they need to embrace and reflect in order to succeed. We will help you navigate this tension with a lens of authenticity and practicality.
What to do Before, During, and After a Meeting to Maximize Inclusion
We will give you templates, checklists, and a deep understanding of what to do at each step to facilitate for inclusion.
How to Avoid Tokenizing Diverse Attorneys and Staff
Where clients are pressuring firms to have diverse teams, the risk of tokenizing diverse staff and further marginalizing is real. We will teach you how to advance diversity in ways that don’t tokenize but truly embrace everyone’s unique value.
TRAINING ELEMENTS
Pre-work
Before each live session, you will be given self-paced online video content and additional written content to review.
Four Live On-line Sessions
There will be four 1.5 hr live on-line sessions focused on tangible learning and discussion about the practical application of the learning.
Optional Leadership Lab
The Leadership Lab is where you can receive instructor-led peer support, confidential 1-on-1 coaching, and access to a community of practice to support your learning, growth, and how to handle difficult facilitation situations.
20+ Templates, Checklists, and Guides
You will receive sample agendas, ice-breakers, community agreements, decision-making charters and over 20 customizable templates, guides, and checklists.
MEET YOUR TRAINERS
Layli Miller-Muro, JD, MA
As a CEO and lawyer for over 25 years, Layli has had careers in Big Law (Arnold & Porter), the US Department of Justice, and as CEO of a national legal services organization. Layli has led and managed diverse teams with an advocate’s emphasis on harnessing innovation and creativity, as well as with a management lens to organizational unity and efficiency. As CEO, she led a $24M organization in a DEI strategy that shifted the leadership from 6% to 56% BIPOC. Layli led the implementation of award-winning inclusive facilitation, management, and decision-making techniques, which resulted in the organization winning the Washington Post Award for Management Excellence and being highlighted in the Social Stanford Innovation Review. Layli was named by Goldman Sachs as one of the Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and by Newsweek Magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Fearless Women in the world.
Layli is a member of the bar in Georgia and Washington, DC.
Minou Rysiew, LCSW
In her 19 years in the field as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, adjunct professor, and consultant, social justice and anti-racism has been a focal point of Minou’s healing work. As a consultant at Visions, Inc., she spent 10 years co-leading intensive diversity workshops aimed at creating multicultural environments that challenge the “isms” within organizations. She is a member of the Athens Black Therapist Collective and has facilitated several process groups including the ongoing (7 year) Phenomenal Women of Color group and the yearlong Healing from Racism: Therapist Process Group.
Minou is licensed to practice in Georgia.
SCHEDULE AND PRICES
* Contact us to schedule a training exclusively for your firm.
TYPICAL LAW FIRM COHORT SCHEDULE - Customizable to the needs of your firm
LEARNING SESSIONS
Day 1, 1:00-2:30 pm EST
Day 2, 1:00-2:30 pm EST
Day 3, 1:00-2:30 pm EST
Day 4, 1:00-2:30 pm EST
OPTIONAL: LEADERSHIP LAB
- One 1 hr group peer support session,
- One 30 min confidential 1-on-1 coaching session, and
- Three 15 min laser calls to support issues as they arise with the facilitators
LEADERSHIP LAB
Inclusive Facilitation Leadership Bootcamp- 4-week advanced intensive training
- 6 hrs of live online training
- Self-paced video learning content
- Learning pre-work and post-work assignments and exercises
- Access to an inclusive facilitation community of practice during the course
- 20+ customizable templates, guides, and checklists (including sample agendas, ice-breakers, learning checklists, community agreements, decision-making characters, etc.)
- Leadership Lab Exclusive Access
- Instructor-led peer learning session
- 30-mins confidential 1-on-1 coaching session
- Three 1-on-1 15 mins laser calls in between sessions for quick advice and support
- Access to an on-going and exclusive online peer community of advanced inclusive facilitation practitioners (does not expire)
GENERAL
Inclusive Facilitation Leadership Bootcamp- 4-week advanced intensive training
- 6 hours live online training
- Self-paced video learning content
- Learning pre-work and post-work assignments and exercises
- Access to an inclusive facilitation community of practice during the course
- 20+ customizable templates, guides, and checklists (including sample agendas, ice-breakers, learning checklists, community agreements, decision-making characters, etc.)
Instructor-led peer learning session
30-mins 1-on-1 coaching session
Three 1-on-1 15 mins laser calls in between sessions for quick advice and support
Access to an on-going and exclusive online peer community of advanced inclusive facilitation practitioners (does not expire)
* Rates are per student. Groups of 5 or more students from the same organization receive a 10% discount. Non-profit employees receive a 25% discount. Contact us for group rates if you are interested in creating a cohort for your organization.
Get In Touch
SUBSCRIBE
info@millermuroconsulting.com
Phone
202-556-1928 (USA)
Location
Washington, DC Area