Leadership and influence

Social and political networking

  • To develop participants' capabilities in assessing their social and political styles.
  • To understand their current behaviour in these fields.
  • To design an improvement plan.
  • To motivate participants to carry out this plan.

 

Executives responsible for implementing strategies and changes are good candidates for this course, as these dynamics present many political risks and social collaboration challenges.

Middle management and senior executives who are considering taking on higher levels of professional responsibility are also good candidates and, therefore, need to improve their positive political skills and social intelligence.

  • Understanding the concepts of political and social capital and their importance.
  • Improving their ability to persuade others and have an effective and honest influence on superiors, colleagues and subordinates.
  • Understanding how it is feasible to be a politically competent manager, at the same time as being honest, effective and socially responsible within the organisation.
  • Attendees who face significant transition challenges in their careers and who are involved in difficult strategy implementations, or in processes of change which present significant resistance or inertia, will benefit from this course in particular.
  • Self-assessment of participants' sources of managerial inspiration.
  • Self-assessment of the impact of participants' personality.
  • Analysis of political capital.
  • Study of persuasion tactics.
  • How to conduct dependency analysis.
  • Analysis of professional contact network.
    • Size
    • Diversity
    • Calibre of contacts
    • Positioning

 

Dates Price Location

2 and 3  february, 2009

1.925 ¤

Barcelona

16 and 17  february, 2009

1.925 ¤

Madrid

Program Director Barcelona

José Luis Alvarez Alvarez

josel.alvarez@esade.edu

see CV

Program Director Madrid

José Luis Alvarez Alvarez

josel.alvarez@esade.edu

see CV

Barcelona

Cristina Duarte Sánchez, Product Manager

cristina.duarte@esade.edu

Gisela Guevara Pou, Program Manager

gisela.guevara@esade.edu

Madrid

Laura Merino Martinez de Pinillos, Product Manager

laura.merino@esade.edu

Patricia Gómez Doménech, Program Manager

patricia.gomez@esade.edu

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