Influential Leadership – Public Program

The Influential Leadership program is a public workshop exclusively for senior executives who know that the success of their leadership rests upon the real world outcomes in their ability to influence, enable change and make quality decisions.

Every person and organisation is unique. That is why generalisations and theories, however insightful they may be, can only go so far. They cannot take into account the unique circumstances, personalities and politics that prevail in any organisation. The Influential Leadership program offers a pragmatic, empirical approach to understanding how best to wield one’s influence as a leader to achieve immediate practical ends. Concepts offered are applied directly to real-world issues supplied by participants, and valuable outcomes are often realised on the spot.

This program combines recent findings on the nature and importance of leadership in great companies, with the emerging field of Tactical Analysis. Tactical Analysis is a powerful analytical methodology that can be used to significantly change and influence almost any situation.

Program Benefits

Participants will learn how to:

• identify what are the key things that need to be achieved in the real world;
• reveal and challenge unhelpful and at times dangerous assumptions;
• manage highly complex and often conflicting situations;
• get individuals to significantly change their perspective;
• effectively influence the informal rules of the organisation;
• identify solutions to what appear to be intractable problems; and
• resolve major organisational blockers with minimal downside.

Program Structure

The program is an intensive, highly interactive, small group workshop.  Attendance is restricted to enable high levels of one-on-one coaching. Participants are expected to work on an actual issue or leadership challenge that has significant consequences for their business. An individual follow-up session is offered to review how participants have influenced the issue they brought to the workshop as well as subsequent issues they may have encountered since.

Program Agenda

Day One
Leadership in great companies
What is effective change?
What is influential leadership?
How influential leaders achieve their ends
Blackbox analysis
Influence and change via collaboration, not coercion
Level 5 leadership and the influential leader

Day Two
Clarifying what actually is and what needs to be different
Filtering complexity to identify exactly what needs to be different
Choosing what and where to change
Shifting perceptions and assumptions
How to shift someone’s perspective and assumptions
Designing effective tactics
Skills practice session

Day Three
Review and elaboration of key concepts
How to shift long term patterns and culture
Managing the future
Refining participants’ interventions
Skills practice session

Duration and Investment

Monday 10 December to Wednesday 12 December 2007

Timings: 9.00am - 5.00pm each day

Note: this workshop will be limited to nine participants only and therefore it may be possible to negotiate suitable dates for those unable to attend on these specific days.

Investment: $4,400.00 (includes GST, three day workshop plus 2 hour individual follow-up, lunches and all materials)

If you would like to know more about the Influential Leadership program please
call 1300 369 455 or email Philip Pryor on philip.pryor@talentsolutions.com.au