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How to Influence and Consult Strategically

Course_Reference: 
FS-PL2342
Summary: 

Do you need to influence at a strategic level to push through your ideas and proposals? As a senior manager you need to learn the analytical, creative, behavioural and political techniques behind strategic influencing. Do you act as an internal or external consultant or facilitator who sells your strategy proposals to senior people? Or are you a manager, seeking to further develop your influencing and consulting skills to have more impact?

Audience: 

The workshop will benefit people who work in complex corporate environments, where matrix structures and other constraints require high levels of skills in influencing and advising senior managers and executives. Although the programme is oriented to the private sector, a significant number of participants from not for profit, public sector and government/agencies have attended and gained useful insights and skills.

Objectives: 

• Demonstrate subtle behavioural tactics for influencing senior people
• Describe how to manage stakeholders more effectively
• Identify your preferred advisory style and adapt it when necessary
• Gain insights into your consulting or advisory style and how to gain authority and influence
• Explain how to sell your ideas and proposals to senior executives
• Improve your strategic thinking processes
• Assess and get buy-in for strategic options
• Prepare for a more senior role with greater self-confidence and credibility

  • Influencing for Success
  • Consulting for High Impact 
  • Advising Strategically
Description: 

This challenging three day workshop, built around the R5 Advisory Skills Framework, will provide you with the skills, tools and frameworks to lift your influencing, consulting and advisory skills to a new level, helping you to manage upwards, push through your strategy ideas and proposals and being far more confident to move your career on.

Software Vendor

IT Technical

Business Skills