Skills for Future Facing Relationships
14 Oct 2026
United Kingdom
3 min read
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Our sessions focus on everyday interactions that shape how legal teams work with the business. It’s not just about giving advice. It’s about building trust, understanding stakeholders, navigating difficult conversations, influencing effectively, and advocating value. These are practical skills that can help you become an effective partner to the organisations you support.
True colours? How to understand and influence other people
This webinar looks at how to:
- introduce a simple model that will help you to understand your audience’s preferred communication style, strengths and preferences (and your own!);
- explore practical strategies that will help you prepare for meetings or conversations; and
- share simple communication tactics that will help you to flex and adapt to your audience’s communication styles in the moment.
Influence and impact: Amplifying women’s voices in the workplace
This webinar looks at how to:
- recognise the pivotal role of powerful conversations in advancing your professional success and identify the strategic dialogues that will support your ambitions and business outcomes;
- strengthen your ability to influence before the conversation begins by clearly defining your purpose and understanding the needs, priorities, and motivations of key audiences;
- leverage brain-friendly communication techniques rooted in neuroscience to enhance your influence; and
- apply mindset and delivery techniques that enable you to communicate with presence and authority, helping you speak up confidently, manage challenging dynamics, and amplify your impact in any setting.
Course feedback
"The very practical tools that I can use in my day-to-day. I also really enjoyed learning about the neurological reasons and feel that now that I understand the underlying reasons for the nerves etc, I will be able to more consciously manage them."How to navigate challenging conversations
This webinar will help you to:
- prepare for a difficult conversation, take your audience’s perspective and understand how to recognise when communication behaviours become unproductive;
- understand common sources of tension in challenging conversations and the behaviours associated with stress response; and
- understand tactics and approaches to maintain an adult to adult dialogue so that the conversation is more straight forward, balanced and constructive.
Top 10 tips and techniques of negotiation for in-house lawyers
In this webinar you will learn:
- how to adopt an assertive and collaborative approach to support you to achieve the best outcome;
- how to prepare effectively ahead of a negotiation conversation; and
- The facilitators will bring the topic to life using forum theatre - and you the participants will have the opportunity to critique and improve their performance from the comfort of your desk!
How to influence when negotiating
This webinar will help you to:
- understand two different approaches to influencing others – changing minds and changing contexts;
- learn a range of practical techniques that are used to influence behaviour; and
- gain an insight into how to adapt your approach when negotiating.
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Thinking strategically about your business stakeholders
This webinar looks at how you will:
- learn about different approaches to identifying stakeholders;
- create a plan to further develop your stakeholder relationships;
- utilise the four key competencies that help experts influence senior stakeholders; and
- identify different sources of power that you can use to achieve your goals.
The leader who advocates legal value
In this webinar we look at:
- why collaboration between Legal and the Business matters more than ever - and where it sometimes breaks down;
- how the role of Legal has shifted, what the Business needs from you, and the mindset shifts required;
- strategies to enhance collaboration, visibility, and mutual understanding; and
- practical examples of how to empower the business, and how you can advocate the value of Legal.
