Power • Influence • Impact

Want to Handle the Politics? Become More Sociable

Your ability to handle the politics is directly determined by the quality of your relationships.

Raise the quality and you will automatically become better equipped to engage effectively with the political dynamics swirling around you. Here’s why…

Want to Handle the Politics? Become More Sociable

Inescapable, and a top priority, because with social capital comes political capital and capability.

 

Exercise to Handle the Politics

  1. Map your current network. Use Mapping Your Network as a quick guide to this process.
  2. Identify a number of networking goals to prioritise (specific people, or parts of the organisation).
  3. What specific actions are you going to take to achieve each goal?

Being More Sociable Resources

 

One of the rapidly growing problems today, as disruption lands across every level of an organisation, is building and maintaining real influence in complex settings.

Ethical Strategic Influence

 

The practical process, first developed in 2008, that is currently helping serious professionals in organisations like GSK, Zurich, and the NHS.