Lateral Leadership
Discover how to lead people and teams who don’t directly report to you.
Your outcomes
- Recognizing and responding to the challenges of managing across functions
- Developing your sources of power beyond direct line authority
- Applying the guiding principles and elements of strategic influencing
- Building and maintaining trusting relationships with the 5 C model
- Building commitment and delivering results
Training content
- Recognizing the challenges and opportunities of managing across functions
- Identifying opportunities to build power with a new team
- Exploring the constructive application of power for getting things done
- Developing a real-world strategy to build trust with a cross-functional team
- Building a common purpose
- Using the factors of power, influencing, commitment and communication to assess team tendencies and culture
- Appling the “Strategic Influencing” model to your reality
- Addressing common problems in matrix teams
- Accountability strategies for matrix teams
- Negotiating work agreements and building commitment
- Applying SCARF model to difficult conversations
- Tips and tools for improving communication
- Debriefing as a continuous process improvement tool
Core skills you need to confidently manage in the new global workplace.
Explore the constructive application of power for getting things done.
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