Essential Skills for Newly Qualified Solicitors
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1.5 hours verifiable CPD per module (total of 6 hours)
As a newly qualified solicitor, it can be overwhelming to manage both the technical knowledge needed to get the job done right, along with the soft skills needed to really excel in your career. Our new Essential Skills for Newly Qualified Solicitors programme is designed to provide training for NQs in areas that are often overlooked.
In this series of practical webinars you will learn how to:
- Manage imposter syndrome, learning techniques and resources for ongoing support that challenge negative self-perceptions and cultivate resilience
- Identify the causes and effects of stress, developing the skills required to effectively manage the stress in your life
- Build a professional reputation, developing a network of connections both online and in person
- Understand what being productive really means, prioritising your day and balancing your workload
Made up of four distinct modules, this programme will help equip and inform newly qualified members on skills they will need throughout their career. Each session will be highly participative and will address the differing needs and wants of the group.
You can book individual webinars for £100 plus VAT, or take advantage of our package discount and register to attend all four for £350 plus VAT. Each webinar will take place from 12pm - 1:30pm, with a total of 6 hours verifiable CPD available. Learn more about the individual webinars below.
With trainer Dr Steven Maxwell
This session aims to provide an understanding of Imposter Syndrome, starting with its definition and exploring the psychological mechanisms that contribute to its development and persistence.
Participants will learn how to identify their own triggers and symptoms, fostering greater self-awareness. The session will also offer practical strategies and resources for managing and overcoming these negative self-perceptions, with the ultimate goal of building resilience and promoting ongoing personal and professional growth.
Learning outcomes:
- Define Imposter Syndrome and its impact on early career professionals, recognising its prevalence and impacts
- Explore the psychological mechanisms underlying Imposter Syndrome, providing insights into its origins and perpetuation
- Identify personal triggers and symptoms of Imposter Syndrome, fostering self-awareness and enabling proactive management
- Introduce techniques and resources for ongoing support that challenge negative self-perceptions and cultivate resilience
With trainer Bethan Watts
Stress can be a positive thing, which drives us on and helps us to grow, develop and be stimulated. However, when stress reaches a certain level, it can overcome your ability to cope and can impact on your physical and mental health.
This training course will help you to identify the causes and effects of stress and assist you to develop the skills required to effectively manage the stress in your life.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand stress and the affect it has on the body
- Learn how to use specific relaxation techniques to overcome stress
- Identify your own model for coping with stress
- Identify methods of avoiding stress where possible
- Learn how to reduce your own stress by following clear techniques
With trainer Bethan Watts
This networking skills training course will help you build a professional reputation and develop a network of connections through the two key methods available to you; face-to-face and online.
You will discover how to effectively combine these two approaches and create a strategy for networking success that will generate your own community and actively grow your personal network.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand how to develop a successful networking strategy
- Learn to maximise your effectiveness with face-to-face/online networking opportunities
- Learn to improve your approach, attitude and behaviours when networking
- Learn how to create a plan for networking that will help you meet your goals
With trainer Bethan Watts
Time management is about making use of all the resources you have available to you, to achieve your career (and life) goals. How you manage yourself impacts on how you are perceived, both internally and by stakeholders.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand what being productive really means by exploring some of the science behind productivity myths
- Understand why you procrastinate and find new ways to banish this from your working day
- Identify what big tasks you keep ‘putting off’ and ensure you are clear about what you are doing and why you are doing it
- Learn how to prioritise your day, balancing your own workload with the firm’s performance priorities
- Challenge your mindset - are you open to growth or are you fixed in your views on how achieve your goals?
You can book individual webinars or the package, which includes all four webinars.
Each webinar will take place from 12pm - 1:30pm, with up to 6 hours verifiable CPD available.