Code: COM174   

CEUs: 0.40 

Bring this program to your organization. It can be customized to meet your specific needs. Call 480-967-7544 for details or e-mail Katrina.

Related Topics:

• Career Management/Advancement

• Management Development: Single and Half-Day Events

When you think of politics in the workplace, what is the first thing that comes to mind?   For most people it is the negative stereotype of ham-handed power plays, sellouts, and backstabbing.  But politics doesn’t have to be that way. 

In this program, you’ll learn a different approach, a proven approach based on more positive techniques.

Length:  One 6-hour session

Instructor:  Gangi

Who should attend: Any employee from any level of the organization who would like to acquire and use power ethically.

Benefits:

• Exert power and influence in ethical, honorable ways.

• Increase the chance of getting your way without damaging relationships or being thrown out of the game.

• Become a more valuable team member.

• Increase job satisfaction and career options.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this program, you will be able to:

• Define the term “workplace politics.”

• Identify workplace decisions that motivate “political” responses.

• Distinguish between positive and negative workplace politics.

• Identify your preferred interaction style.

• Explain how to “flex” your preferred interaction style to increase the likelihood of successful communication.

• Discuss how to ethically obtain and use “power” to influence workplace change.

• Describe how to reduce resistance to your ideas by fence sitters, opponents, fellow travelers, and adversaries.

• Create a Workplace Change Plan^TM that reflects positive political strategies.

Program Outline:

I.          Politics

            A.         Politics defined

            B.         Decisions that motivate political responses

            C.         Distinguishing between positive and negative political behaviors

II.          Principles

III.         Proficiency

            A.         Style preferences: interaction style and learning style

            B.         Style flexing for improved communication

IV.        Power

            A.         The six types of power

            B.         Power:  how to get it and use it – ethically

V.         Planning:  Creating the workplace change plan

            A.         Analyze the situation

            B.         Build support by reducing resistance

            C.         Prepare an action plan

            D.         Implement

            E.         Evaluate the results