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This Practice Note provides guidance on identifying and evaluating risk across your business. Managing risk is not a one-off event; it is an ongoing process. This Practice Note explains the concept of risk appetite and how to establish your organisation’s appetite to risk, provides suggestions on how to gather risk information from relevant stakeholders, outlines how to identify risks from the information you have gathered, and offers guidance on risk evaluation and recording identified risks.

This Practice Note provides guidance on what learning needs are, identifying both individual and organisational learning needs, and how to undertake a learning needs analysis.

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, provides guidance on how to implement and conduct effective return to work interviews. The purpose of conducting return to work interviews is to ensure an employee returning after a period of absence is fully fit for work. This is especially important if the employee is still suffering from health problems or is taking medication that may have side effects you need to be aware of.

This Practice Note, written for those working in an in-house legal team, guides you through the first step (the define/identify stage) in the Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control (DMAIC) model of continuous improvement, and highlights two different methods you can use to establish which processes need improving.

This Practice Note, written for those working in the public sector, guides you through Step 2 (the ‘measure’ stage) of the Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control (DMAIC) framework for improving efficiency and explains how to measure the problem or inefficiency identified in Step 1, the ‘define’ stage.

This Practice Note, written for those working in an in-house legal team, guides you through step 3 (the ‘analyse’ stage) of the Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control (DMAIC) framework for improving efficiency. This Practice Note will help you to analyse the root cause of the problem you identified in step 1 and measured in step 2 of this process.

This Practice Note, written for those working in an in-house legal team, guides you through step 4 (the ‘improve’ phase) of the Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control (DMAIC) framework for improving efficiency, highlighting how applying the ‘five S model’ of sorting, simplifying, sweeping, standardising, and sustaining self discipline can help you to improve a process.

This Practice Note, written for those working in an in-house legal team, guides you through step 5 (the ‘control’ stage) of the Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control (DMAIC) framework for improving efficiency, and explains how to embed a new process to overcome the problem you have previously identified, measured, analysed and improved.

This Practice Note Improving efficiency—tool selector helps you to improve efficiency at your firm by choosing the correct tool(s) to use at each stage of the 5–step improving efficiency process.

This Practice Note explains resilience for an individual in a work context. It provides practical guidance and suggestions to help you improve your personal resilience to change within the working environment.

This Practice Note will help you understand what the triggers are for changes in your levels of assertiveness and what you can do to help yourself.

This Practice Note provides guidance on building the business case for learning and development (L&D) in the in–house legal department. L&D represents a significant investment for any organisation. With so many potential solutions on offer, it is essential to establish the business case for any planned L&D activities to demonstrate its contribution to the bottom line.

This Practice Note provides information on formulating a learning and development (L&D) policy.

This Practice Note covers how to prepare and deliver a training course or presentation, including guidance on why it is important for any learning event to have a clear purpose, to be pitched at the right level and to avoid death by PowerPoint. It also provides tips on managing nerves and dealing with difficult delegates.

This Practice Note provides guidance on what learning needs are, identifying both individual and organisational learning needs, and how to undertake a learning needs analysis.

This Practice Note provides guidance on learning and development (L&D) plans.

This Practice Note explains what learning and development (L&D) is and provides information on any regulatory requirements that must be observed when undertaking L&D for the legal department. It also includes guidance on assessing the contribution L&D makes to your organisation, why L&D policies sometimes fail, funding L&D, responsibility for L&D, and ensuring that L&D delivers results.

This Practice Note explains the importance of influence, a key leadership skill, and why leaders need to be able to communicate effectively.

This Practice Note provides a general overview of all the key elements of learning and development (L&D). More detailed information can be found within the relevant Practice Note for each subject.

This Practice Note provides guidance on learning and development (L&D) plans. It covers what an L&D plan is, regulatory requirements, why an L&D plan is good practice, the content of the plan, budgets and resources, the corporate fit of the plan, why a plan might fail, how the plan can assist with recruitment and the induction of new employees, and reviewing and monitoring L&D plans.