Managing and Supervising Effectively
Series: Enhancement Skills
Course: Mastering Organizational Politics, Influence and Alliances
Are skills mastery and years-under-your-belt really enough to succeed in today’s organization?
What really drives a high-performance management career? It’s more than management skills—it’s a 360-degree management mindset that enables you to understand and control all the forces that shape your career and get what you need for and from your team. This seminar presents a sophisticated approach to managing that reveals the hidden truths about management success today.
Who Should Attend
Team managers, project managers and senior managers with significant experience under their belts.
How Participants Will Benefit
- Understand the processes that go into high performance—and how to drive the efforts you need from your team
- Better manage your interactions and relationships with colleagues across the organization
- Successfully manage your political image
- Use communication to influence others and strengthen your organizational alliances
- Manage your behavior and the impact on the team
- Improve your coaching, delegating and mentoring abilities
What We Will Cover
- Key competencies and critical success factors of effective management
- 360-degree approach to managing up, down and across your organization
- Negative politics and strategies to navigate intense political climate
- The sources of organizational power and relationship between politics and influence
- How to influence and manage beyond your own authority
Mastering Organizational Politics,
Influence and Alliances
Winning at Management
- Identify the Key Skills and Competencies Required for Long-Term Management Effectiveness
- Understand the Basic Functions and Responsibilities of Effective Management
- Identify the Key Elements of the 360-degree Arena Within Which Managers Must Perform
- Identify the Critical Success Factors of Effective Management
- Develop Personal Learning Objectives for the Seminar
Politics and Influence
- Define Politics
- Describe the Behaviors Associated with Negative Politics
- Identify Factors Within an Organization That May Contribute to an Intense Political Climate
- Define Power
- Describe the Sources of Organizational Power
- Identify the Relationship Between Politics and Influence
- Identify Nine Strategies of Successful Influence
- Describe the Strategy Strengths and Development Areas
Communicating to Influence
- Describe the Importance of Interpersonal Influence to Your Personal and Organizational Success
- Define Influence
- Distinguish Between Manipulation and Positive Influence
- Identify the People Whom You Must Influence at Work
- Describe the Importance of Interpersonal Communication to the Influence Process
- Identify the Key Communication Skills of Persuading and Attending
- Use Evidence to Support an Idea or Proposal
- Provide Useful Feedback
The Politics of Teams
- Describe the Potential Benefits of Team Effort
- Describe the Common Blocks and Barriers to Effective Team Operation
- Understand the Systems Properties of Teams
- Construct a Team Map to Gain Insight into Your Team’s Operations
- Identify Strategies and Tactics to Improve a Team’s Operation
Taking Charge of Your Learning
- Reinforce the Key Ideas of the Seminar
- Participate in Development Planning
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