Has Your Firm Signed the ABA Well-Being Pledge?
As of Summer 2021, more than 210 law firms, law schools, and in-house corporate legal departments have signed the American Bar Association’s Well-Being Pledge.
In doing so, they’ve expressed their commitment to the seven tenets of the pledge, including providing robust education to attorneys and staff on topics such as well-being, mental health, and substance use disorders.
Many other firms are launching firm-wide well-being initiatives, even if they haven’t signed the official ABA pledge.
As you continue to evolve your well-being education programs, consider the role that on-demand learning can play.
Consider sharing with your incoming associates a short online program that emphasizes The Firm’s Commitment to Well-being—and what that means to them.
Or providing a program for new associates that gets them thinking, right at the start of their career, about how they can set themselves up to Thrive in the Legal Profession, Maximize Well-Being, and Optimize Performance.
What about providing a program to all of your managers and supervisors that explores The Important Role that Managers Play in Fostering a Psychologically Healthy Workplace.
As a partner to the legal community—and at the request of many of our law firm clients—we’ve created a 7-part on-demand well-being educational series designed just for law firms. The series includes the topics above and many others, all selected based on the input of our clients. Modules designed specifically for law firm staff are available as well.
Many firms have already had this series branded to the firm and customized to incorporate links to their other well-being resources. And they're rolling them out in a variety of ways: Posting them to their LMS (or intranet) for 24/7 access across the firm, so they are accessible when needed; incorporating a “Well-being Topic of the Month” into their communication initiatives with a link to the featured program; and even hosting small lunch-and-learn sessions to review a program together and facilitate deeper conversations on these important topics.
The Maximizing Well-Being series is available as a Professional Essentials special bundle. Learn more about Professional Essentials for Law Firms or request course preview access today.