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If there isn`t already a strong legal operations manager, finding one should be a top priority. If we checked a year after an OCOL took over a legal department, the biggest regret is that we didn`t make talent decisions sooner – putting the right people in the right role, realigning the team, or separating people who are difficult or whose skills don`t match the department`s needs. OCOL`s role continues to grow in importance as it becomes more influential at the highest levels of management. To succeed in this leading role as a lawyer, you must learn to skillfully navigate the four faces of OCOL and focus most of your time and effort on catalyst and strategist roles. In the same way, the priority of “legal talent management” may appear as a simple priority of the operator. However, if the company has recently acquired talent through a merger, or if there is a significant strategic shift for the company or an evolution towards a more technology-driven legal department, talent management could be a strategic priority. It may even be a catalyst priority, for example if the talent plan is to help influence the global risk profile. All four faces exist simultaneously, and OCL`s ability to navigate each of them should be fluid. Priorities often have components that touch more than one face. For example, the priority of “aligning legal priorities and resources with corporate strategy” may include elements of the strategist`s role that understand (and potentially influence) the company`s strategy and its relationship to the legal department`s strategy.
It can also address the role of the operator and implement processes and procedures for the legal team to help them adapt. It is rare for an OCOL to struggle to play the roles of catalyst and strategist because the role of Chief Legal Counsel is not given the appropriate platform or authority. In the rare cases where this happens, it may be wise to think of an exit plan. While it is useful to examine your role with this framework, the delineation of tasks in the daily life of CLO life is not always so clearly segmented. Often, the top priorities of an OCOL include two or more faces. Here are the five most common priorities lawyers identify for themselves: How do OCLs manage their time so they can focus on the categories of strategists and catalysts? By focusing on building a strong legal function and/or creating leverage in your legal department to manage the guardianship and operator functions. While it may initially be necessary for new OCOL to spend 60-65% of their time as tutors and operators (repairing or restructuring what they have inherited), it is important that new OCOL avoid spending the majority of their time on these long-term responsibilities, as this could signal to the rest of senior management that OCOL is not becoming a management strategy. Guardian: In Guardian mode, you need to lead the company`s legal and regulatory affairs, manage complexity while minimizing risk. This is the core responsibility of the role of Chief Legal Officer and the in-house legal team. Catalyst: A catalyst provides a competitive advantage by providing the legal perspective and critical advice needed to facilitate the management team`s ability to choose the right path forward and set the tone at the top of the company.
Operator: As an operator, you spend much of your time focusing on how to build a strong legal operations function and optimize the skills, talents, service levels, costs, and legal structures needed to better serve your trading partners. The four faces of the Chief Legal Officer are saved Today`s Chief Legal Officer (CLO) is multidimensional and no longer just an extraordinary legal tactician. An OCOL is also a strategic thinker and senior executive who operates at the highest and most influential level of the company. To succeed in the role of Chief Legal Counsel, an OCOL must divide their time between “four faces”: strategist, catalyst, tutor and operator. Strategist: As a strategist, you are able to communicate to your business partners a clear legal strategy that supports and enables the business strategy. In this role as General Counsel, you will provide the senior management team with legal advice to achieve their growth objectives. The role of today`s Chief Legal Officer is complex and requires much more than expertise in legal operations. To succeed, an OCOL must master and find the right balance between “four faces”: strategist, catalyst, goalkeeper and operator. Translate text with a single clickanywhere on your computer Frequent short phrases: 1-400, 401-800, 801-1200 If OCLs do not stray from the initial need to act as tutors and/or operators, it is often because they have a high level of comfort in these roles and have probably been well rewarded and recognized for their performance in managing these roles.
It is essential to OCOL success that it learns to effectively delegate tutor and operator responsibilities and develop thinking and behaviour to demonstrate competence in catalyst and strategist roles. Social sign-in is currently not available in the Microsoft Edge browser. A Deloitte study suggests that most CEOs and boards want new leaders to spend about 60-70% of their time in the catalyst and strategist categories, while the remaining 30-40% work in the watchdog and operator categories.1 Even experienced OCOL sometimes struggle to synchronize their time allocation to meet CEO and CEO expectations. Board of Directors. Search Results: 63. Exactly: 63. Elapsed time: 147 ms. However, based on our conversations with new OCLs, their time allocation is often reversed. Lori is a Managing Director at Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP and leads research and knowledge for the Chief Legal Officer (CLO) program.
In this function, she designs research institutions. More. Some responsibilities that can be associated with the catalytic role: 1 Ajit Kambil, “Navigating the four faces of a functional C-level Executive,” Deloitte Insights, 28. May 2014, www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/focus/executive-transitions/crossing-chasm.html.
