Developing Your "Superkeepers" The Keys to Cultivating High-Potential Legal Leadership

Developing Your "Superkeepers"

The face of professional development in the legal profession is changing.  In an era of intense competition and escalating talent costs, the concept of competency has assumed a bigger, broader meaning.  Today it goes beyond the mastery of superior legal skills and includes the ability to interact, professionally and appropriately, with diverse people in diverse situations.  It includes the ability to build relationships - with clients, with colleagues, with professionals and non-professionals - with everyone relevant to the success of an engagement of transaction.  It includes that combination of intellectual acumen and personal influence we call leadership, the palette of skills that allow a top lawyer not only to think strategically, but also to movitate others to pursue that vision and to shape others' attitudes and performance along the way.

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