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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 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.

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe of OnLive Learning, considers the five key stages of legal project management (LPM): defining the scope, planning the work, budget and resources, managing the timeline, and wrap-up/closing the project.

This Practice Note summarises the issues faced by a manager implementing change and provides practical guidance on how to manage the team effectively throughout the process based on the different ways people may react to change.

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe of OnLive Learning, explains what personal branding is and why having and maintaining a strong, authentic personal brand is important for leaders. Managing your own personal brand is hugely important—how people perceive you really matters.

This Practice Note on measuring success focuses on the importance of measuring the impact of the changes you have made to improve efficiency and demonstrate levels of success.

Learning from more experienced colleagues is one of the best ways to develop skills and careers. Mentors can help you make sense of complex issues that you are likely to face as your career develops and being a mentor can help you develop leadership and people skills. This Practice Note is designed to introduce the mentoring process and its benefits and provide practical tips on how to structure a mentoring relationship.

Learning from more experienced colleagues is one of the best ways to develop skills and careers. Mentors can help you make sense of complex issues that you are likely to face as your career develops and being a mentor can help you develop leadership and people skills. This Practice Note is designed to help and support those involved in the mentoring process, be that as a mentor or mentee, and will provide practical and pragmatic tips for success. When you embark on a mentoring relationship, it is important that you set appropriate goals to avoid sessions turning into 'tea and sympathy' sessions. Goals can be long or short term and can flex and change along the way as the sessions evolve.

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe of OnLive Learning, provides guidance on the content of a written offer of employment, eg an offer letter, gathering references, preparation for a new employee and the importance of an induction programme.

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe of OnLive Learning, considers a selection of common coaching approaches and tools you could use to ensure you get the most from each coaching session.

This Practice Note provides guidance on how to present with confidence when you are in the same room as your audience. Presenting information clearly and effectively is a key skill to get your message across and influence people successfully.

Presenting a session virtually has much in common with delivering face-to-face, but there are many differences. This Practice Note covers planning and rehearsing the presentation, dealing with technology and distractions, and body language and tone.

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe of OnLive Learning, discusses programme management and project management. Programmes and projects are at the core of business operations, and whilst they are very similar and closely related, there are a number of key differences that need to be understood by in-house lawyers.