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Half Day | Max. 15 Participants
Workshop Outcomes
- Define and articulate what managing upwards entails and learn to establish clear boundaries
- Identify and address the key challenges in upward stakeholder management and develop strategies to overcome barriers
- Apply emotional intelligence and empathy to understand diverse stakeholder perspectives, needs and motivations enabling more effective connection and influence
- Demonstrate advanced communication skills to present ideas persuasively, balance competing demands, push back constructively and give feedback
- Think strategically by aligning personal and team objectives with organisational priorities
Topics Covered
- Input on balancing competing priorities; focus on building confidence, stepping into your agency and setting professional expectations
- Focus on the diverse barriers encountered in stakeholder management and learn and practise a set of practical tools to mitigate them
- Using a Personal Styles profile, understand your preferences and those of your stakeholder; learn a set of simple, practical tools to assist your stakeholder management. Practically apply learning in case studies
- A simple tool for ideas presentation; powerful language tools to push back successfully while maintaining positive relationships; learn and practise a robust feedback model for giving and inviting meaningful feedback with stakeholders to strengthen partnerships and performance
- Learn a helicopter technique to support strategic thinking and practise organisational thinking
Location
- Willing to work remote
- Willing to work interstate
- Willing to work internationally
How can this workshop be delivered?
- Virtually
Overview
Learn how to navigate the complexity of organisational hierarchies with confidence and get your voice heard at senior levels. This intensive half-day programme equips you with essential skills to manage and influence stakeholders effectively while achieving your objectives. It is highly participative.
What You'll learn: Understanding the true nature of managing upwards and overcoming key challenges. Using a personal styles profile, develop your understanding of your own and other drivers and leverage this to connect with diverse personalities and master persuasive communication techniques. Learn skills to balance competing needs and push back professionally without damaging relationships. Practice scenarios through interactive exercises designed for immediate workplace application.
Key Outcome: A comprehensive toolkit of proven techniques for successful upward management, plus actionable strategies for ongoing stakeholder relationship enhancement.
Workshop Outcomes
- Define and articulate what managing upwards entails and learn to establish clear boundaries
- Identify and address the key challenges in upward stakeholder management and develop strategies to overcome barriers
- Apply emotional intelligence and empathy to understand diverse stakeholder perspectives, needs and motivations enabling more effective connection and influence
- Demonstrate advanced communication skills to present ideas persuasively, balance competing demands, push back constructively and give feedback
- Think strategically by aligning personal and team objectives with organisational priorities
Topics Covered
- Input on balancing competing priorities; focus on building confidence, stepping into your agency and setting professional expectations
- Focus on the diverse barriers encountered in stakeholder management and learn and practise a set of practical tools to mitigate them
- Using a Personal Styles profile, understand your preferences and those of your stakeholder; learn a set of simple, practical tools to assist your stakeholder management. Practically apply learning in case studies
- A simple tool for ideas presentation; powerful language tools to push back successfully while maintaining positive relationships; learn and practise a robust feedback model for giving and inviting meaningful feedback with stakeholders to strengthen partnerships and performance
- Learn a helicopter technique to support strategic thinking and practise organisational thinking
Who is this workshop for
Anyone who is involved in stakeholder management within a business. This is suitable for those who are not necessarily formal managers but who have to influence across teams, business and heirarchies.
Handouts/materials provided
Support and reference e-materials provided; support summary podcast available for post course consolidation.
What to bring
Complete short personal style questionnaire before attending and bring the results with you; consider the barriers you currently experience to influencing your stakeholders.
Facilitator
About the facilitator
Janet has been working in the field of leadership development and training for 20 years in the UK and is now based in Sydney. She is a qualified and experienced facilitator, trainer and executive coach. She has worked at all company levels across a wide range of blue-chip industries including Renewable Energy, Finance, Telcos, Accounting, Insurance, Facilities Management, Power and Renewables, Insurance, Construction and many others.
She has worked on numerous cultural change programs and brings real experience to support leaders who are leading in times of major and constant change.
Janet is highly empathetic and brings energy and vibrancy to the training room, always with an eye on delivering the best results and getting the learning 'to stick'. She is passionate about a coaching-style centered training, and helping leaders to find their 'coaching muscle'.
She also specializes in supporting leaders to improve their presentational skills, improving their gravitas and impact and helping them to develop their influencing skills. She uses psychometric profiling and a wide range of leadership tools and techniques in her practice. Janet also uses actors to support learning in her programs, designing and delivering engaging tailored actor-based solutions.
Key Expertise
- Leadership training and development
- Team building
- Actor based solutions
- Coaching
Industry Focus
- Across all industries
Based in:
About the facilitator
Janet has been working in the field of leadership development and training for 20 years in the UK and is now based in Sydney. She is a qualified and experienced facilitator, trainer and executive coach. She has worked at all company levels across a wide range of blue-chip industries including Renewable Energy, Finance, Telcos, Accounting, Insurance, Facilities Management, Power and Renewables, Insurance, Construction and many others.
She has worked on numerous cultural change programs and brings real experience to support leaders who are leading in times of major and constant change.
Janet is highly empathetic and brings energy and vibrancy to the training room, always with an eye on delivering the best results and getting the learning 'to stick'. She is passionate about a coaching-style centered training, and helping leaders to find their 'coaching muscle'.
She also specializes in supporting leaders to improve their presentational skills, improving their gravitas and impact and helping them to develop their influencing skills. She uses psychometric profiling and a wide range of leadership tools and techniques in her practice. Janet also uses actors to support learning in her programs, designing and delivering engaging tailored actor-based solutions.
Key Expertise
- Leadership training and development
- Team building
- Actor based solutions
- Coaching
Industry Focus
- Across all industries
Based in:
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