Cultivate your political skills

Professional knowledge and skills are not always sufficient in order to obtain results. Knowing how to position yourself and your project ideas, create alliances and exert a positive influence to generate results — this is being politically savvy and it can be taught!

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  • Duration: 1 day
  • Regular price: $485
  • Preferential price: $415

Course outline

Audience

Managers, supervisors and team leaders.

Prerequisites

None.

Objectives

  • Consolidate your ability to make a political assessment of your organization and navigate it
  • Make a preliminary map of your political network
  • Evaluate the personal levers of influence
  • Develop your capacity to exert influence in relation to your ideas and projects
Contents
Definition of political savvy
Knowledge of your environment
  • Issues/directions/priorities
  • Formal and informal rules
  • Knowledge of the actors
The political network
  • Definition and mapping
  • Development and maintenance practices for your network
Managing rumours and your image
  • The importance of managing your image
  • The three types of rumours
  • Practices to manage your image and leave an impact
Political styles
  • Two styles: promotion of ideas and content, and the emphasis on people and their concerns
  • Dangers of extreme positions
  • Develop your capacity to adapt
Levers and influence peddling
  • Personal power, credibility and visibility
  • Approaches to influencing
  • Methodology: analyze actors and select influence method

Surround yourself with the best

Zaida Bibiana Mangones Matos
Zaida Bibiana Mangones Matos
Trainer
Zaida is a dynamic and highly qualified trilingual trainer, facilitator and coach that is considered as catalyst for individual and collective transformational processes. Not only is she graduated as a certified coach from the Edgenda/Mozaik Coaching School, but she also holds a major in career development (UQAM), a 2nd cycle university degree in epidemiology and an undergraduate medical doctorate from outside of Quebec. She is known for positive energy, her systemic vision, the quality of her presence and her ability to create bonds of trust.
Kathleen Sears
Kathleen Sears
Trainer, Coach, Leadership Consultant
A trainer, coach, and senior consultant for over 20 years, Kathleen Sears has solid experience in the implementation and delivery of training programs and as a training and organizational development coach. As a bilingual trainer at AFI Expertise, she has trained several thousand people primarily in management skills development, leadership, communication, and customer service.
Janet Lough
Janet Lough
Trainer
Janet Lough is a skilled, dynamic, authentic trainer, facilitator, and bilingual coach. She has over 25 years of knowledge and experience in management, training, communication, operations, strategy, and leadership in the non-profit sector and in entrepreneurship. This enables her to better understand her client’s business reality.
Manon Blondin
Manon Blondin
Trainer
Passionate and dynamic, Manon Blondin works as a consultant in the field of management and change through coaching, training, conferences, strategic consulting and communication. She is a member of the Order of Chartered Human Resources Advisors (CRHA) and the International Federation of COaches of Quebec (ICF), where she obtained her PCC certification.
Florence Jacob
Florence Jacob
Trainer
As a holder of a double bachelor's and master's degree in management from HEC Montréal, Florence has accumulated nearly 10 years of experience as a consultant and specialist in organizational development. Her career in parapublic, public and private organizations has allowed her to perfect her expertise in coaching and leader development. Promoting knowledge sharing and managerial skills transferring is at the heart of her approaches as a consultant. Florence is known as a committed partner. Her support type is dynamic, structured and oriented towards an opened and transparent communication.