Power, Politics and Strategic Influencing Workshops

Delegates return from this essential two-day workshop able to use their new influencing skills and new awareness to immediately improve their performance. Better still, they also emerge with new ways of seeing and navigating any obstacles created by unhelpful organisational politics; obstacles which might previously have sabotaged their best laid plans.

Outcomes:

Understand your sources of personal power and those of your key stakeholders and the influence they hold over your objectives.
Learn to spot the games which colleagues, customers and suppliers play and develop strategies to neutralise them.
Develop a strategy for managing your key stakeholders to ensure your success.
Become a positive politician and learn to influence with integrity.

Here are some of the positive and supportive comments from graduates our workshops ...

"Six months on, I'd honestly say that I've used something from the workshop every single day" C.D. Leeds

"Since attending the workshop last year I've been able to see clearly what the external consultants are doing to improve their revenue at our expense. Not only have I seen it, but also had the confidence and ability to stop the excesses" C.F. Switzerland

"During the stakeholder session on the workshop I realized why someone was being an adversary. So I got on the phone immediately to them, had a tough conversation which I'm pleased to say turned them into an ally for my unit" E.C. Southampton

"I was frankly surprised with how powerful other people thought I was. This was a real boost to my confidence, and helped me to move my issues forward far more assertively and with great success" C.B. London

"Before the workshop politics was just an emotive blur. Now I can look very calmly and objectively at what is going on, work out different scenarios and decide if I want to do something constructive to stop the game player" J.H. Birmingham