Positive Political Skills in the Workplace
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Positive Political Skills in the Workplace
Wield strategic influence in your organization — starting now!
Political shrewdness is an absolute must in the modern workplace. Whether we realize it or not, we’re all navigating the political climate of our organizations each and every day. And it takes a special set of soft skills to carve out a strategic niche for yourself in this landscape.
This course will help you strengthen your informal authority and boost your credibility with tactics and strategies that let you leverage your clout. Find out how to get the right people’s ears and make the most of your newfound influence to ethically and constructively advance your agenda.
Want to be in it to win it? Join us and find out how!
Offered in partnership with HEC Montréal
Learn how to play the game
- Determine your personal approach to political maneuvering
- Gain tactics and skills to grow your political savvy
Become a heavy hitter in your organization
- Assess political rules and risks
- Activate the levers that drive power
- Find ways to win ethically and fairly
Wield constructive influence
- Make others want to hear what you have to say
- Create win-win solutions
- Forge effective strategic alliances
Take the lead in guiding the way forward
- Strengthen your positive impact
- Make politics a force for good
- Put your organization on a winning path
Impact to your organization, team or business:
- Develop a group of leaders who can stand up for organizational interests
- Promote good-will and cooperation across all levels
- Foster the organization’s ability to form mutually beneficial alliances—within your industry, or across sectors
- Build agility to succeed in any kind of competitive environment
- Cement your firm’s reputation as an ethical corporate citizen
Gain a better understanding of power dynamics
- Distinguish between power, influence and political savvy in an organizational context
- Recognize political issues at the individual and organizational level
- Learn to operate the levers of power
- Decipher political rules based on the type of organization
- Weigh the political risks
Decode political games within the organization
- Understand the five types of political game players—what type are you?
- Identify allies, opponents and neutral parties
- Thwart conniving adversaries
- Map out collaborative and competitive political games
Play the political game to win
- Apply strategies and tactics to influence political games in a collaborative environment
- Apply strategies and tactics to influence political games in a competitive environment
- Determine the avenues for creating long-term alliances and coalitions
- Understand the impact of the organizational context on political wrangling
- Learn three factors to take into account to uphold business ethics
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