Feb 7, 2024
Coming into 2024, award-nominated GC Teresa
Allan is motivated to ensure optimal levels of resilience and
connection across her law department. Doing so, she submits, will
put the team in the best possible position to succeed in the
current climate.
In this episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, host Jerome
Doraisamy speaks with Capgemini vice-president, general counsel and
ethics and compliance officer Teresa Allan about the importance of
exploring how to set up one’s law department to succeed in the new
year, various personal setbacks she experienced in 2023, the
lessons she learnt from trying times, why having transparent
conversations with one’s team is as important as ever, and the need
for resilience and reconnection.
Ms Allan also delves into the holistic hurdles that might be
getting in the way of optimal resilience and positive reconnection
within one’s law department, how to navigate sustainability issues
and balance team management against constant firefighting,
segmenting team members to undertake proactive or reactive tasks,
tackling the projects that a department can reasonably manage, what
her definition for success in 2024 is, and what motivates her to
achieve it.
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