| None of us is as smart as all of us. - Japanese proverb |
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| 2008 Conference |
Effective Leadership: Mastering the Fundamentals |
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Brigadier General Butch Tate presents this year's Sharon Swartworth Leadership Development Seminar. |
| 2008 Webinar |
Release the Leader Within |
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Randi Mayes and Judi Flournoy join Carol Stanger of Language at Work to provide insights into the characteristics and behaviors that typify leaders to help you to discover which style might be most comfortable for you and to learn additional ways of working with others to expand your leadership skill set |
| 2007 Peer to Peer |
Promoting Internal Collaboration with an Enterprise Wiki |
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Monroe Horn looks at how an enterprise wiki helped his department with improving their knowledge sharing, collaboration and documentation. |
| 2007 Conference |
Global Challenges of Practice Management |
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Panel members Mark Brennan, Dave Couzins, Kelly Inglese, Michelle Mahoney and Beth Patterson provide a perspective of running a multi-office Practice Management function including staffing, licensing and vendor relationships across borders, remote needs and how to remain in control; identify geographical challenges; exchange ideas and experiences from the field. Applies to the challenge of remote management in any type of department. |
| 2007 Conference |
Improving Client Relations |
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The role of an IT manager extends beyond internal teamwork -- there's a role, contends Henry Chace, for IT to provide valuable services to the firm client's, particularly in a small firm environment.. |
| 2007 Conference |
Level 5 Leadership |
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Deena Coffman, and Silas McCollough of mindSHIFT discuss what makes a "Level 5" leader? Does extraordinary leadership have a distinct set of characteristics? Where does your leadership style fall on the Level 5 scale, and what can you do to move even higher? (Note: large file, may take time to open) |
| 2007 Conference |
The Human Side of Strategy |
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Felicity Badcock and Tom Baldwin are joined by consultant Sally Gonzales in discussing how to understand what human factors bear on the success or failure of a technology initiative; identify the earmarks of a successful human-oriented implementation strategy; learn ways in which to deal with the lawyer personality. |
| 2007 Conference |
Web 2.0: Ready for Prime Time? |
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Consultant Bruce McEwan ("Adam Smith, Esq.") looks at blogs, wikis and mashups as quick, inexpensive and effective tools for collaborating with a law firm and with clients, bridging the gap between KM, CRM and business development. |
| 2006 Conference |
Building Better Teams |
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Joy Heath Rush looks at the dynamics of teams, and discusses the roles of team sponsors, leaders and members. She also stresses the importance of having a "BC/DR" plan for your team and its project. |
| 2006 Conference |
Leadership |
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Major Scott Black talks about what makes a leader in this session from the Sharon Swartworth Leadership Seminar. |
| 2006 Conference |
Leadership |
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In this presentation from the Sharon Swartworth Leadership Seminar, Daniel Curry talks about the qualities of leadership. |
| 2004 Conference |
Building Bridges Among the Tribes in Law Firms |
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Author and lecturer Peg Neuhauser talks about the downside of collaboration: how smart people can be collectively dumber unless you respect the values and communication styles of the different "tribes" they represent. |
| 2004 Conference |
Leading People through Turmoil and Change |
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Author Peg Neuhauser and her provocative ideas about work as a sprint, not a marathon, how everything looks like failure in the middle, and the importance of chocolate. |
| 2003 Conference |
Collaboration is a Team Sport |
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Terry Crum covers the opportunities for collaboration among lawyers: finding work product and in-firm specialists, distributing excess work, and training new lawyers. |
| 2003 Conference |
Team Building: The 12 Covenants |
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"We will always choose to roll up our sleeves rather than wring our hands", and other wisdom from the Univ of South Carolina football team's 12 covenants. |
| 2003 Conference |
The Change Management of Team Building |
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Building a cross-functional team without the dis-function. Presented by member Cynthia Aylsworth. |
| 2003 Conference |
The Instant Team |
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Member Andrea J. Daeubler discusses team communications, the virtual team, and the importance of rewards. |
| 2002 Peer to Peer |
Finance Is Your Friend - The CFO's Role on the Firm’s IT Management Team |
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Gary S. Wong of ProLaw Software discusses the importance of involving the CFO in the planning process, snce projects are perceived as failing more often when finance begins evaluating ROI and effectiveness of a project after it’s completed |
| 2002 Conference |
Collaboration: Crouching Power Hidden Vision |
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Member John Green discusses how his firm uses technology to provide attorneys with the clearest vision of the task at hand. |
| 2002 Conference |
Collaboration: Crouching Power Hidden Vision Part 2 |
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Member Peter Ozolin covers the importance of collaboration, and how various methods of technology can help solve the problems of collaboration. |
| 2002 Conference |
Team Building |
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Members Cathy Reilly, Jake Reichenstein and Kelli Kohout tell what makes a good team player, what makes a bad team player, and tips for building a better team. |
| 2002 Conference |
Two Axioms of Collaboration |
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Member Jamie Booth covers the barriers to collaboration and how his firm has overcome them in developing collaborative attorney-client environments. |