Constructing Your House On Solid Ground:

Building An Effective Legal Team

What I Was Told In My Interview!

Please Hold Your Laughter Until The End• 9-5 Job

• Only Had To Worry About 1 Client

• Focus On The Forest, Not The Trees

• Part Of The Team

• Not Much Travel

• Comparable Pay

• Better Benefits

The In-House Executive, Counsel, Manager, BOD, Secretary, Etc.

• Chief Legal Advisor• Member Of The Management Team• Business Sense And Acumen Expert• HR Manager And Advisor• Risk Manager• Productivity & Cost Expert• Revenue Source vs. Cost Center• Outside Counsel Supervisor• Corporate “Language” Expert• Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002• Chief Compliance Officer

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

~Jack Welch

Kevin Loughery

The Effective Leader

1. Upgrade The Team

2. Live & Breathe The Corporate Vision

3. Get Under People’s Skin

4. Establish Trust

5. Make Unpopular Decisions

6. Get Questions Answered With Actions

7. Inspire Risk Taking

8. Celebrate

Your Teams

• Legal

• Management

• “Go To”

• Project

• Task

• Objective

• Problem

• “Substitute”

First Who … Then What

1. “Who” Teams Adapt To Changes In Direction

2. The Problem Of How To Motivate And Manage Goes Away

3. With The Wrong People, Direction And Vision Are Irrelevant

So, Who is Who?

The Acid Test

3 Principles to Great Team Building

“A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.”

~Swahili Proverb

5 Pyramidical Dysfunctions

The Stockdale Paradox“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” ~ Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale

“When you turn over rocks and look at all the squiggly things underneath, you can either put the rock down or you can say ‘my job is to turn over rocks and look at the squiggly things’ even if what you see scares the hell out of you.”~ Fred Purdue

SummarySummary1. Everything Starts With

The Leader

2. Good Is The Enemy Of Great

3. Who Before What

4. Pre-screen Candidates And Never Settle

5. Identify And Address Common Dysfunctions

6. Confront Reality