IP Attorney as Leader
A four-module introductory course with each module
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Die Teilnahmegebühr beinhaltet eine Dokumentation zum Download, ein Zertifikat, den Zugang zum Learning Space sowie technische Betreuung einschließlich PreMeeting.
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Series (completed)
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1.340,00 €
plus VAT
Services & Process
Event - 1,340€ plus tax
Die Teilnahmegebühr beinhaltet eine Dokumentation zum Download, ein Zertifikat, den Zugang zum Learning Space sowie technische Betreuung einschließlich PreMeeting.
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Jane Wainwright
Executive Coach, Founder, 23-year Patent Attorney Veteran, Starry-Eyed Pragmatics Ltd., East Midlands (United Kingdom)
Jane has more than twenty years of experience in legal services, including over a…
Your speaker
Jane Wainwright
Executive Coach, Founder, 23-year Patent Attorney Veteran, Starry-Eyed Pragmatics Ltd., East Midlands (United Kingdom)
Jane has more than twenty years of experience in legal services, including over a decade as a partner-owner at a top-tier multi-jurisdiction firm of IP attorneys. During her time within the partnership, Jane was Head of Department for the Biotechnology patents team and an Executive Board member. She also provided board-level input to HR and L&D projects throughout the business and devised a partner-readiness development programme. To advance her own leadership skills she undertook postgraduate studies in executive and business coaching. All of these people-focused experiences led Jane to set up Starry-Eyed Pragmatics to bring to a broader audience her extensive experience in people and leadership development, coaching, and wellbeing matters within partnership-led professional service firms.
Jane is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and has accreditations and certifications in several coaching and consulting tools, including Strengthscope, EQ-i 2.0, and Lego Serious Play. She has undertaken postgraduate study in Business and Personal Coaching to receive a postgraduate certificate (PGCert) from the University of Chester.
What to Expect
- Understanding self & others for organisational benefit
- Building effective & productive teams for IP work
- The role as an IP leader and the different skills needed
- Consequences of bad IP leadership
- When bad communication destroys organisational culture and productivity
- Learning how to be more effective as a communicator
Who Should Attend
Are you a patent attorney or patent counsel in a corporate IP or patent department, or a patent attorney in a law firm? Have you taken on a leading position or are you about to do so? Then this course is designed for you. It also addresses in-house IP legal counsel who lead or are preparing to lead teams.
Objective of the Event
IP attorneys who take on leadership often are not prepared for it. Their standing rests on technical and legal expertise, but managing people requires different skills, and the cost of neglecting them reaches well beyond the team. In corporate IP departments, leaders depend on inventors and business units they do not manage. In law firms, partners and senior associates must lead teams while still meeting billable targets.
Over four modules, Jane Wainwright, a former partner who headed a biotechnology patents team at a multi-jurisdiction IP firm and has more than twenty years of experience in legal services, will teach the leadership skills that IP professionals need in practice. Participants learn to use their strengths, values and drivers as a basis for working with others, to build effective teams through delegation, feedback and psychological safety, and to define their role as IP leaders, including how to influence stakeholders without formal authority. The final module addresses communication, from listening and questioning to leading meetings and handling disagreement. On completion, participants will be able to lead teams with greater confidence and communicate more effectively within their organisations.
Your Benefit
On completion of the course, participants will be able to lead teams with greater confidence and communicate more effectively within their organisations.
Programm
25 February 2027
4 March 2027
11 March 2027
18 March 2027
each day from 09:00 - 10:30 CET
Day 1
Understanding Self & Others
- Strengths and values as a positive approach to leadership and way of working
- Identifying values and the importance of alignment for self and others
- Drivers - what drives our behaviour and workplace interactions
- Leveraging the differences of self and others for better organisational outcomes, using strengths, values and drivers as core examples
Module I:
Understanding Self & Others
Module I:
Understanding Self & Others
- Strengths and values as a positive approach to leadership and way of working
- Identifying values and the importance of alignment for self and others
- Drivers - what drives our behaviour and workplace interactions
- Leveraging the differences of self and others for better organisational outcomes, using strengths, values and drivers as core examples
Day 2
Effective IP Teams
- Managing others reporting to you (directly or indirectly)
- Delegation and feedback as the keys to unlocking work efficiency, quality and productivity
- How teams become dysfunctional and what to do about it
- The importance of psychological safety and techniques for cultivating it
Module II:
Effective IP Teams
Module II:
Effective IP Teams
- Managing others reporting to you (directly or indirectly)
- Delegation and feedback as the keys to unlocking work efficiency, quality and productivity
- How teams become dysfunctional and what to do about it
- The importance of psychological safety and techniques for cultivating it
Day 3
Your Role as an IP Leader
- Managing and influencing stakeholders that aren't direct reports
- Understanding the role you play as a leader in defining and role-modelling behaviour and culture
- Introduction to emotional intelligence and leadership styles
Module III:
Your Role as an IP Leader
Module III:
Your Role as an IP Leader
- Managing and influencing stakeholders that aren't direct reports
- Understanding the role you play as a leader in defining and role-modelling behaviour and culture
- Introduction to emotional intelligence and leadership styles
Day 4
Communicate Well with Anyone
- When and how to really listen and ask great questions
- Leading and facilitating meetings so they couldn't "have been an email"
- Understanding communication preferences for getting input from everyone
- Handling disagreement and challenge from others
Module IV:
Communicate Well with Anyone
Module IV:
Communicate Well with Anyone
- When and how to really listen and ask great questions
- Leading and facilitating meetings so they couldn't "have been an email"
- Understanding communication preferences for getting input from everyone
- Handling disagreement and challenge from others
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Jean-Claude Alexandre Ho, LL.M.
Deputy Department Manager
+49 6221 500-675
jc.alexandreho@forum-institut.de