Clifford Chance's anti-stress programme for trainees is being rolled out across the firm.
CC introduced its Performance Optimisation Programme a year ago, with the aim of developinga race of Nietzschean Super Lawyers who can be beasted into the ground "more resilient individuals who are able to sustain their performance with the capability to cope and adapt when faced with periods of pressure and challenging situations*". And apparently it's worked. The firm's grad rec and development manager, Laura Yeates, claimed that there had been a reduction is absence levels since the programme was introduced, and said that the firm had been able to identify and help those who needed occupational health support at an earlier stage.
The programme involves face-to-face workshops and unspecified "monthly communications". Whether this means CC has actually banned communication at other times is unclear, but the programme is presumably more effective than the usual self-medication of caffeine and gin. Although possibly not as effective as simply reducing workload to a vaguely manageable level.
CC says that the programme has raised awareness of mental health issues, and as such has helped remove the stigma that can be attached to them. The firm has now started trialling a version of the programme for its senior associates.
*We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
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CC introduced its Performance Optimisation Programme a year ago, with the aim of developing
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The programme involves face-to-face workshops and unspecified "monthly communications". Whether this means CC has actually banned communication at other times is unclear, but the programme is presumably more effective than the usual self-medication of caffeine and gin. Although possibly not as effective as simply reducing workload to a vaguely manageable level.
CC says that the programme has raised awareness of mental health issues, and as such has helped remove the stigma that can be attached to them. The firm has now started trialling a version of the programme for its senior associates.
*We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
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Doubt the scheme will work across the firm; associates have far more pressing issues i.e. hitting wholly unrealistic targets set by its neolithic management board.
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This indicates one of two things. EITHER the program has worked and lawyers at CC are less stressed OR CC lawyers no longer feel able to take time off to deal with stress because they are being told that the new program has successfully cured any stress related problems that may previously have existed.
It's impossible to know which it is although as AU at 08:08 correctly points out, this program is aimed entirely at cure, not prevention.
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