General Management Development
Gaining Agreement - A Constructive Approach to Organisational Politics
For anyone who is faced with managing competing agendas and priorities.
This programme will help you to develop constructive, personal strategies for gaining commitment when politics appear to threaten the imperative for concerted action. Politics are an inevitable part of organisational life, they reflect strong opinions and differences of opinion. At the end of the programme, you will be equiped with the knowledge to enable you to work with politics - with integrity.
What will I get out of it?
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An understanding of why politics happens and its centrality to management
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Knowledge about how to work politics with integrity
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An insight about how to harness politics to ensure focussed and committed change management
What is it about?
Recession tends to decrease people’s tolerance for actually working with those differences of opinion, so, how can you get committed action when the stakes are so high and the differences rife?
This programme views politics as being fundamentally concerned with motives, and with how leaders, individuals and groups in organisations use influence to competitively position their own business agendas. Whilst politics need to be recognised as an inevitable organisational activity, they also need to be harnessed, especially in these difficult economic times, to ensure that individual agendas do not detract from collective effort. This insight is applied to key managerial activities such as change management, relationship building and teamwork in order to provide practical guidance on how to ensure individual differences are turned into committed action.
The programme will demonstrate how you can focus on activities that are of value to others, whilst at the same time may be of value to you, enabling others to see what you are doing is legitimate.
Who is it for?
Anyone who is faced with managing competing agendas and priorities. It is relevant to both public and private sector, any industry and organisation size.
Programme Director
Dr Martin Clarke
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