Cranfield School of Management

General Management Development
Organisational Politics - The key to managerial effectiveness

play flash presentationA practical 2 day programme that develops political competence.

This programme will help you to develop constructive approaches to gaining commitment when differences and competing priorities threaten the need for concerted action. At the end of the programme, you will be equipped with ideas and insights that will help you to work effectively and productively in environments where competing priorities and agendas are common. 
 

What will I get out of it?

  • An understanding of why organisational politics happens and its centrality to effective leadership
  • Knowledge about how to work with politics with integrity
  • An insight about how to harness politics to ensure focussed and committed change management
  • An improved ability to choose how you operate and lead in your business.

What is it about?

In today’s complex and high pressured business environment, competing stakeholder goals inside and outside the business are a natural consequence of economic uncertainty. If senior managers do not manage these differences well then either significant interests are neglected or businesses become paralysed by silo thinking or disengaged employees. More than ever leaders need to recognise the important role that constructive politics plays in complex and successful organisations. They need to know how to harness, promote and address different interests effectively to ensure that critical individual contributions benefit rather than distract the business. This insight is applied to key leadership activities of change management, relationship building and teamwork. The programme provides practical guidance on how to ensure inevitable differences in priorities and agenda are turned into committed action.

Who is it for?

Any manager who is faced with managing competing agendas and priorities. It is relevant to any industry and organisation size.

Programme Directors 

Dr Martin Clarke
Dr Catherine Bailey

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Duration:

2 days, residential

Dates:

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Fees including tuition, course materials, accommodation (where applicable) and 12 months CMA Professional Membership.

For further information contact:-

Sara Shakespeare
+ 44 (0) 1234 754569
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What Participants think...

"This programme gave me a better understanding of how I can deal with the organisation and peoples resistance in everyday business."

Sergio Merlin,Thomson- SA

"The programme was very good. Excellent understanding of the principles and confronting the fact that politics is a valid part of everyday life in the coporate world. Great use of case studies an anecdotes to prove the issues are real."

Steven O`Connor,Lloyds TSB Group Plc

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