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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
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Course outline

Audience

Managers, supervisors and team leaders.
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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

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Florence Jacob
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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.
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Coach, facilitator, speaker, and trainer, Vanessa is recognized as a change agent and a human, caring, and inspiring leader who is not afraid to challenge the status quo. Passionate about people, neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and somatic approaches, she supports leaders and organizations in building high, sustainable performance that safeguards both results and the people who drive them. A trained lawyer with an MBA, Vanessa has had the privilege of appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada and being listed in Best Lawyers in Canada and the Canadian Lexpert Directory. She is also a recipient of the ZSA Tomorrow’s Leader Award for up-and-coming legal advisors. With over 15 years of experience in consulting and management, Vanessa has held prominent positions, including Chief Privacy Officer at a major Canadian financial institution and partner in a law firm. From the start of her career, she has designed and delivered trainings and conferences, and as a speaker and trainer, she brings more than 15 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. Vanessa is highly regarded for her ability to demystify complex subjects and make them practical and accessible. An entrepreneur and certified coach in leadership and sustainable performance, Vanessa also holds certifications as a meditation teacher, applied neuroscience practitioner, Ericksonian hypnosis practitioner, and in various other somatic practices. She has completed Kaos Pilot Level 2 (Master Archer – art & craft of designing & facilitating learning spaces) and is a certified AtmanCo professional.
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Kathleen Sears
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