Description:

Navigating Distortions of Power™ teaches participants to use the 12 Elements of Power to understand others, adapt their approach and communication to optimize collaboration, and effectively request and create conditions for positive behavior change. Participants should be graduates of the Managing with Power™ and Communicating with Power™ programs before participating in Navigating Distortions of Power™. This session includes:

• A refresher on the 12 Elements of Power Model and the Distortions of Power
• Reviewing the relationships, dynamics, and personal qualities participants find most challenging
• Exploring the distortions of their own and others’ power that create these interpersonal challenges
• Learning how to shift approach and communication and how to request and train others to create positive behavior change

This day helps participants apply what they learned in the Managing with Power™ 1-Day to their most challenging interpersonal situations. Every manager’s effectiveness hinges on how well they deals with people – their reports, their boss, their colleagues – when everyone’s under pressure. The one-of-a-kind tools they’ll learn in this training will give them a new level of competence as a manager, a contributor, and a collaborator.

The language of the Elements of Power gives participants access to a new way of viewing others’ behavior and the dynamics between them and others. Managers will find new insight into themselves and those around them, and simple, do-able, effective tools for dramatically improving their most challenging interactions. The objectives are designed to help women walk away from the session with the tools to immediately shift the way they manage.

Learning Objectives:

Each participant will leave this session able to:

• See patterns in the reactions they evokes from others
• Understand which Distortions of Power™ drive others’ difficult behaviors
• Identify which Elements of Power and Distortions of Power™ in others they react to unproductively, and how to choose productive responses
• Discern when to accept and adapt to a dynamic, when to ask for a change, and when to change their own behavior to evoke a change in the other person
• Effectively manage, report to, and collaborate with others – even those who have been most difficult for them in the past

NOTE: These are standard training objectives for this program and can be adjusted based on the client’s particular needs.

Participants and Facilities:

This program is led with two facilitators for groups up to 60 participants. As an all-day training, it is best led in a room with large round tables to seat six individuals per table in crescents (all facing the presenters). Lunch should be catered into the room by the event organizer. Continental breakfast and table linens are important but optional touches. Working with Power’s event fees include participant materials (workbooks and other special surprises) and supplies for creating atmosphere in the room.