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Team Building in a Legal Practice

Ineffective teams increase the stress and therefore decrease productivity for both the individuals and the organization. Some of the signs your team may have issues include:

• People are touchy, snappy, and avoid interactions.
• People don’t communicate.
• You hear things like:
• “Well, you didn’t ask me.”
• “It’s not my job.”
• "You’re just a file clerk . . .”
• People have to watch their backs all the time.
• Past history keeps getting in the way of current work.
• Gossip gets out of hand.

Law offices are particularly challenged because of the tension between a commitment to working for a particular attorney and the need to cooperate to achieve the firm’s goals. So, too often, the concept of “team” is shaped by the desk rather than the firm.

Cobalt offers a variety of ways to build your team into a productive work force:

One-hour In-office Sessions focus your team on the interpersonal and leaderships skills necessary for great teams

Coaching workers and/or managers to build leadership, communication,  or interpersonal skills

Facilitating goal setting, establishing boundaries, and other administrative tasks with the team leadership.

Training team members and office leaders to remove the obstacles to effective teams

Team Interventions work with the most severely disrupted teams toward a common goal, mutual respect, clear communication, managing conflict, and problem solving

We start with a free, one-hour Team Building Needs Analysis to gather the information that helps us construct a strategic plan with you. 

Your plan may involve meeting as a team, coaching individuals or leaders, working with the leadership group to help them establish boundaries and acceptable behaviors, or working on the skills needed to relieve the team's stress.

Together we will plan a strategy that fits your team building needs. 

Please contact us.