How to Influence Stakeholders using Ethical Office Politics

"Excellent course. Exactly what I needed to learn to tackle my current job challenges!" Carlos Mata, course student

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"Straight to the point, no bullshit, practical and enlightening advice with good visual aids." Dan Bartlett, course student

About this course on influencing stakeholders using ethical office politics course

Office or company politics is present in every organisation and developing good political acumen - political skill - is vital. This is backed by a 2008 survey that revealed 90% of British managers believe political skill is required to improve career prospects. However, another survey that investigated what most stresses people out at work put office politics at the very top — ahead, even, of workload, a stalled career, job insecurity and red tap.

This is why so many people in the workplace ignore or avoid office politics.

But ignore corporate politics and you'll soon find your career stalls at a middle management level. So don't ignore what is one of the most crucial career development skills: engaging in effective, ethical office politics and developing political acumen - which is really nothing more than a combination of emotional intelligence, assertiveness, stakeholder management and common sense. 

Engaging in office politics and developing political acumen in the workplace is necessary to get results and to get you the career you want – and this course shows you how to engage in office politics ethically – without compromising your integrity or values.

What you’ll learn on this office politics online course:

• How to overcome any unhelpful beliefs you might hold about office politics

• How to improve your visibility within your organisation & build your reputation

• How to identify & build trust with key stakeholders

• How to network and build social capital - key to developing a successful career

• How to counter the moves of any colleague - the office machiavelli - using underhand tactics to undermine your position

• How to deal with bullies and those of the Dark Triad

• Hear case studies of how to engage in office politics - and how not to!

• How to sell your ideas to key stakeholders and improve your stakeholder management

• How to counter dirty tactics used by others

• How to network effectively with the right people

• How to influence effectively through corporate politics

• How to get on to high visibility projects

• How to know who to communicate to when

• How to engage and communicate with all levels of an organization

• How to improve your emotional intelligence

A note from the trainer, Peter Willis

In interviewing many successful senior executives for this course, from my own experience working in large organizations, and from my time coaching 100s of individuals in large blue businesses, charities and schools, I’ve come to understand that people who undertake dark tactics are at not the norm, and that there is such a thing as healthy mature, corporate politics.

If you want to achieve your career goals, you need to develop political skill, political savvy and political acumen. You need to learn how to develop leverage to get people to do what you want them to do. And in this course I’ll be showing you how can do this ethically without compromising your integrity. You can do corporate politics without being the office Machiavelli !

In fact, I’d put it to you that unless you do develop political skills and apply them you’ll be doing yourself, your team and your organisation a disservice because you will allow the people with the loudest voices and/or the office Machiavelli — who do not necessarily have your or the organisations best interests at heart — to set the agenda and run the show.

I’ve coached middle managers who’ve sat in this layer of management way beyond the time it takes their peers to achieve promotion. They say they don’t do company politics as it’s unethical or unfair - they believe hard work gets rewarded fairly and that organisations are meritocratic. But when we dig deeper the reality is that it’s an excuse to hold themselves back — to stay small and to avoid challenging situations and so they underachieve. This may harsh, but given, in many cases, their deep level of knowledge, skills and expertise, they are not delivering for themselves, their teams or their organization. You need to engage in corporate office politics - not ignore it. And you need to develop good political acumen and a good understanding of your organization and its political landscape. You need to develop political intelligence - you need political savvy and an understanding of company politics.

So, take control of your career, and sign up to this course on how to engage in office politics - in an ethical way.

Note:

• This office politics online course comes a 46 page course office politics workbook, which includes extra tips, exercises & subject area research in the field of office politics.

• You will also get each video as a mp3 audio download - so you listen to this course while driving or commuting.

"A complex and sensitive topic of office politics has been explained very nicely. While various theories were explained they were well supported with examples..." Dinkar Joshi, course student

"The course is well put together , backed by research and has all the practical hacks to successfully navigate the inevitable office politics encountered at almost every organisation. Thank you very much! Rashmi Vikram, course student

Who this course is for:

• Employees, managers and leaders in businesses and organizations of all sizes who want to develop political acumen, political science and understand office / corporate politics and engage with key stakeholders in an ethical way.

"Loved this instructor. He presents the information in a clear way with engaging examples. I will be taking more of his courses." Jennifer Ripley, course student

"Good speaker. Relevant information" Betty Huntington, course student

"Trainer has a lot of knowledge, you can tell, and his approach is very professional, you can easily absorb what is talking about." Katarina Miklec, course student