Success at work depends not only on managing those below you, but on working effectively with your boss and influencing the stakeholders around you. This program equips participants with practical skills to manage up and influence stakeholders, covering how to build productive relationships upward and across the organisation.
As influence matters as much as authority, these skills are highly valued. This course combines managing up with stakeholder influencing and introduces emerging trends in workplace influence.
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Understand managing up and influence concepts
- Understand the value of managing up
- Understand your manager’s world
- Build a strong relationship with your boss
- Communicate effectively upward
- Align with priorities and expectations
- Anticipate needs and add value
- Manage disagreements with your boss
- Identify and map stakeholders
- Understand stakeholder interests
- Build stakeholder relationships
- Influence without authority
- Apply persuasion and influence tactics
- Manage difficult stakeholders
- Build a network of influence
- Apply emerging trends in workplace influence
Course Outline
- Module 1: Managing Up & Influence Concepts
- Module 2: The Value of Managing Up
- Module 3: Understanding Your Manager’s World
- Module 4: Building a Relationship with Your Boss
- Module 5: Communicating Effectively Upward
- Module 6: Aligning with Priorities
- Module 7: Anticipating Needs & Adding Value
- Module 8: Managing Disagreements with Your Boss
- Module 9: Identifying & Mapping Stakeholders
- Module 10: Understanding Stakeholder Interests
- Module 11: Building Stakeholder Relationships
- Module 12: Influencing Without Authority
- Module 13: Persuasion & Influence Tactics
- Module 14: Managing Difficult Stakeholders
- Module 15: Emerging Trends: Workplace Influence
Who Should Attend
This course is suitable for professionals at all levels who want to manage up effectively and influence stakeholders across the organisation. No prior experience is required.
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