Overview

The Weekend School is the major training event for local government lawyers. It takes place each year during the Easter vacation at a suitable university. The Weekend School is constantly developing because of the changing needs of the profession. It is organised by Solicitors in Local Government.

This year, Stephen Hopkins, Northern Managing Partner, Eversheds and Stephen Cirell, Head of Local Government, Eversheds with the assistance of David Hemery, Deputy Chairman, Performance Consultants International, introduced a slot of developing a coaching culture for the public sector in general and local authorities in particular.



Stephen Hopkins, Northern Managing Partner for Eversheds with David Hemery CBE, Deputy Chairman, Performance Consultants International (seated) with session participants.

About the session

The session took a refreshingly different view of a key skills relevant to local government: coaching.



Coaching is a powerful tool for developing leadership and employee performance beyond the typical skill and motivational approaches to professional development.

Embedded in the process of on going communication and relationship building it delivers practical, common sense approaches to developing people and services, and is a powerful way of creating excellent results.

David Hemery explained how performance coaching evolved and is now a key skill applied in any organisation. Stephen Hopkins explained how Eversheds has adopted the coaching approach to every aspect of its business and the positive effect its had on its performance. Stephen Cirell showed how coaching is of value to local government lawyers of every level in their pursuit of promotion, personal development, increased performance, greater influence and improved efficiency.



Stephen Hopkins, Northern Managing Partner, Eversheds, Stephen Cirell, Head of Local Government, Eversheds, David Hemery CBE, Deputy Chairman, Performance Consultants International, Helen Liddar, and Dudley Lewis, LLG.

For more information

To request further information or to let us know of your interest please contact David Hemery or David Brown on +44 (0) 2073 736 431 or by email @ info@performanceconsultants.com