Explore how the O Shaped Mindset (based on the 5 Os: Open, Original, Opportunity, Ownership and Optimism) can elevate individual and team performance.

Understand the O Shaped Mindset and how to practically embed the 5 Os into everyday work.  We will look at the origin of the 5 Os; why they are so crucial for best-in-class delivery of modern-day legal services; and the behavioural shifts people can make to deliver a better service to their stakeholders.

Purpose-led leadership –  How adopting an O Shaped approach will inspire team members to align their own personal and professional values with the overarching vision you create.

Motivation and Engagement - We will understand the crucial role that motivation and engagement play in your team’s success and adopt an O Shaped approach to create a high-performance team culture.

Effectively Delivering and Receiving Feedback – The skills and tools to deliver and receive the kind of effective, actionable feedback that is crucial for any team.

Leading Others - Use the 5 Os and the 12 O Shaped Attributes to explore how your leadership approach can influence key stakeholders across and outside of your organisation.

This workshop will help you to convert value creation ideas into tangible, deliverable initiatives that will improve your team, service, and overall performance.

We look at the Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities facing your team and the future initiatives you can take forward to be a more efficient, effective, value-generating service provider.

Identify initiatives that prioritise the value-creating strategic work and how to overcome the barriers to successful change initiatives.   

Understand the plans and behaviours needed to sustain change for the long term.

Examine lessons from current cognitive and behaviour-based research around judgement and decision making, including behavioural implications.

Adopting an O Shaped approach to ethical decision-making, including how to manage the tension between supporting desired commercial outcomes and legal compliance.

Focus on how organisational ethos, purpose and values can contribute to better decision-making throughout the organisation.

Discover why creating psychological safety is increasingly central to creating high performing teams in professional services and how it aligns with O Shaped thinking to help your teams be the best they can be. 

We will explore what it is, where it came from, and bust some myths around what it is not.

We will look at how to apply the O Shaped Mindset to create a psychologically safe environment.

In this session, we focus on the 5 Os of the O Shaped Mindset and how they link to stakeholder relationships including how you can align with your stakeholders and play a central role in enabling better business outcomes.

Look at negative perceptions (and misperceptions) of legal professionals and the how the 5 Os can help bridge the disconnect between legal service delivery and stakeholder expectations and objectives.

Explore trust as the foundation of long-term professional relationships, including practical behaviours to gain trust, why it’s crucial, and strategies to avoid losing it.

Examine the key elements of human behaviour change required to effectively leverage AI, including how an O Shaped Mindset can help us shift from scepticism to acceptance then embracing new ways of working.  

Exploring how AI can improve your legal service delivery by articulating the value of legal services in a digital world, effectively integrating new technologies with new ways of thinking and working.

The TypeCoach Verifier is an online diagnostic that focuses on how people can increase their effectiveness when communicating and collaborating with colleagues and clients.  

The diagnostic and subsequent workshop will give the team insight into their individual and shared default decision-making and communication processes, as well as how these tendencies can support or impair their ability to collaborate with each other and their internal or external stakeholders.

Self-leadership -  We use the TypeCoach Verifier diagnostic tool to better understand your default behaviours and how they affect others. 

Managing vs Leading - Using the O Shaped Mindset and real- world examples, we will understand the difference between these concepts, explore how they show up in corporate and legal worlds and gain practical strategies to succeed at both.

Navigating the Producer/Manager/Leader Dilemma

Addressing the complicated reality of legal professionals who must deliver legal services and take on a leadership or management role – and who are expected to succeed at both.

This workshop will explore what it means to be a value creating provider of legal services, moving from technical legal expert to enterprise-wide value creator.

We will look at what your stakeholders and clients really need from a high performing legal team and how you can co-create that value with them by adopting a more proactive approach to delivering efficient and effective legal services.

We will also look at value creation through the lens of metrics, targets and KPIs, developing a dashboard of data to demonstrate the evidence-based value of the legal function.

Envisaging the future legal function and preparing to succeed in the long term.

Examine what it means to be adaptable as a legal professional and how doing so will enhance the quality of service you provide to your stakeholders and clients.

The role wellbeing plays in enabling your team to adapt and thrive through change and creating a continuous improvement culture through effective, actionable feedback.