Dec 18, 2023
Team management, and ensuring the law department can perform in
small, agile workplaces, is at the top of Luana Melis’ priority
list as a leader. Creating such productive environments takes time,
she says, and requires meaningful reflection on processes and a
focus on softer skills, among other key approaches.
In this episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, host Jerome
Doraisamy is joined by Time & Place general counsel and company
secretary Luana Melis to discuss the tough market conditions faced
by the property and construction sectors in recent years, how and
why team management is the highest of priorities for her,
determining best practice for managing teams, and the importance of
agility in identifying pathways forward.
Ms Melis also reflects on what high performance means for her in
the context of an in-house legal team, balancing the legal team’s
efforts against the performance of other business functions, the
need for mindset shifts, practical ways to achieve and maintain
high performance, lessons learnt along the way, marrying up the
importance of sustainability with performance, and recalibrating
the idea of high performance amid changing market conditions.
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