Are you looking for a speaker who can address the unique needs and challenges of lawyers?
Stephanie Kane delivers talks, workshops and teleseminars tailored specifically to the legal profession. She addresses the most crucial areas of maximizing performance and differentiating yourself in an increasingly competitive market. Stephanie can help law firms and legal conference attendees learn the techniques and mindset for living Life in Law.
Below are a few of Stephanie’s topics which can be customized to your group’s situation and needs. Talks can be delivered as one-hour teleseminars, live presentations, or half-day seminars. Stephanie provides practical, hands-on, interactive content that includes real-world examples drawn from her work as a lawyer, award-winning novelist and coach.
Storytelling: Narrative Technique for Lawyers
Storytelling can make you a more powerful communicator and advocate.
Uniting an idea with emotion is the cornerstone to persuasion. Persuasion is prized by trial lawyers, public speakers, rainmakers and leaders. Identifying a narrative thread is also essential to establish purpose, define transitions, and present clients with a coherent goal and logical path.
This workshop covers the five C’s of a compelling story:
- Character: Who is the story about? Stories communicate human experience.
- Conflict: What do these people want? Stories happen when expectations and reality collide.
- Causation: How do the characters act under pressure? Stories relate a cause-and-effect sequence of events.
- Context: When and where did it happen? Stories place events in a compelling context.
- Coherence: Why is this meaningful? Stories teach how to make sense out of life.
Attendees will frame their own experience into a story that identifies coherence, causality and continuity. They will also learn to identify a client’s thread and weave it into a powerful narrative.
Strategic Thinking: Using Creativity to Innovate
Strategic thinking requires the willingness to explore multiple approaches to a problem. Seeing all sides of an issue enhances your ability to identify and understand a client’s needs. It enables you to innovate. It is the heart of trial advocacy.
This workshop stimulates new patterns to:
- Think visually: linear and nonlinear mapping
- Think fluently: generate maximum number of ideas
- Think flexibly: elaborate on each idea
- Think verbally: change the words
- Innovate: reverse assumptions and make new connections
Attendees will learn to reframe their perspectives and stretch their creativity by generating new ways to approach problems. They will also learn tips for testing their ideas and speeding up the creative process.
Performance Barriers: “Hidden Lawyering Agendas”
Actors know that before they can step into a role they must clear their minds of influences that impair their ability to perform. Similarly, certain fixed ideas about how lawyers should and shouldn’t ‘be’ can cripple our development and hijack the needs of the client or a case.
Identifying “hidden lawyering agendas” removes a potent obstacle to achieving your full potential and effectiveness as a lawyer:
- What goals did you set and abandon?
- What resistance or opposition did you meet?
- What do you dare not try to attain?
- What do you believe are the attributes of excellence?
Attendees will identify beliefs that create a barrier to their ability to counsel clients or perform in court. They will then be able to determine which agendas they want to act upon or change.