Influencing Without Authority
Our Influencing Without Authority training equips participants with the skills needed to build credibility and effectively influence stakeholders, even if they lack the formal authority to make demands on resources. This course helps attendees understand the attitudes and behaviors of leaders who know how to get work done through influence and persuasion whether managing up, down, across, or diagonally within organisations.
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Course Overview:
Teams and leaders encounter many challenges in the pursuit of successful completion of objectives. Among the challenges is the strong possibility of working with stakeholders who you may have no formal authority over, but the project success hinges on their cooperation with you. Understanding how to navigate the matrix environment and build relationships with key stakeholders comprises a constellation of capabilities from networking and coalition building to persuading and negotiating. This course provides you with the skills and tools to influence without authority.
The Project Landscape
- Understanding the Project Landscape
- Navigating the Matrix Environment
- Project Manager as Influencer
The Roadmap to Influence
- Identify & Prioritise Stakeholder Relationships
- Clarify your Goals and Objectives
- Explore the World of Key Influencers
- Identify what matters to them
- Mirror & Match Work Styles
Understanding resistance, decision making and choices
- Breaking through Resistance – the major barriers to influencing others
- Decision making traps
- Six Principles of Persuasion
Building Psychological Safety & Establishing Trust
- What is Psychological Safety?
- Setting the Stage for Candor and Curiosity
- Inviting Participation through designing Structures
- Responding Productively
- Establishing Trust
Framing the Message
- The Power of Talk
- Mastering Crucial Conversations
- Make it Safe when Emotions run High
- Master your Stories
- Four Listening Tools to encourage people to share
- Turning Crucial Conversations into Actions
This course is targeted at leaders and members of teams who want to influence more effectively.
Course:
This course will be delivered virtually in half-day or full-day slots, using industry leading collaborative software. There will be engaging and interactive activities both before, during and after each training session.
Dates:
Please contact us for the next available dates.
What our Customers say
We have the pleasure of partnering with Aspira for our Project Management learning in Three. We worked with them to create bespoke content for our learners balancing our company’s needs and the PMBOK principles as well as SCRUM bootcamps and we found Aspira open and flexible in changing content to suit our needs as well as ensuring we covered all of the relevant content.
Working with Aspira gave us confidence in the quality of the content and we are thrilled that all of our trainees successfully certified in Project Management. To support the world we currently live in, Aspira transitioned to virtual delivery of content without losing any of the engagement and content in doing so. The feedback from our learners is that the programme was engaging, challenging, and worthwhile and they all benefitted from the programme with 95% of the learners saying it was extremely relevant to their role. The facilitators build great relationships with the learners which adds a depth of trust to the learning that supports the success of the programme and I would highly recommend working with Aspira.
Miriam O’ Connor – Senior Development Partner Manager, Three
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Aspira worked with Stryker to support the set-up of a Project Management Office (PMO) within Stryker and to introduce an enterprise wide bespoke Project Management training competency program.
Stryker have taken the Project Management tools and templates attained from training with Aspira and applied them to their processes and procedures for Project Management within the company.
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