In this insightful piece for the Association of Corporate Counsel, Amii Barnard-Bahn, a former Fortune Global 50 executive and executive coach and who specializes in accelerating the success of legal executives and their teams, says it’s time to reassess the skills, knowledge and abilities needed for success today compared to what it took to make it 10 years ago. Among the skills she highlights, there are some unsurprising basics (financial acumen and project management), a few clear differentiators (executive presence, courage and humility), and a handful of less obvious attributes (records and information management, adult learning theory, and a VUCA mindset (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) to “stay ahead of newly surfacing risks” for themselves and their business partners. Read more about the 10 skills here.
Published August 4, 2020.
