Case notes
‘What do we mean by business partnering in the legal department?’ Royal Dutch Shell legal director Donny Ching asks. Few general counsel can long resist reminding observers that the in-house legal function needs to be a strong business partner. But far fewer can explain what it means.
At Shell, the legal team worked with the company’s internal learning group and an external consultant to try just that. The result has seen nearly half of its function’s more than 1,000 staff go through a business partnering training programme consisting of two formal courses, called Skills in Business Partnering and Mastery in Business Partnering, alongside online training resources. The training also extends to the wider business.
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