People Skills - Influencing Upwards

Venue: Ilkeston
Hours: 7.00
Cost (£): 350.00

Course Overview

This workshop focuses on the specific interpersonal skills you need to influence senior people within and beyond your organisation – such as managers, team leaders and project managers – and achieve positive outcomes. You will understand what happens during communication with a more senior colleague and how to make the most of the dialogue, whether through a presentation, in regular conversations, or during a negotiation.

Course Content

• Personality profile: an online questionnaire completed before the event
• Feedback from the personality profile to help delegates make sense of their own responses
• Understanding power dynamics
• Understanding transactional analysis
• How people receive and understand information
• Practising having conversations
 
Benefits for the individual
 
• Greater self-awareness and understanding of personal impact
• Improved confidence in conversations with senior people
• An appreciation of how personal power affects conversation dynamics
• More effective planning when approaching conversations with seniors
 
Benefits for the organisation 
 
• Team members with the confidence to communicate more successfully and persuasively
• An environment where communication is effective at all levels of the organisation
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