Agile

Agile influence essentials

 Agile influence essentials - practical influencing  for scrum masters, product owners and stakeholders leading in the matrix organization and across cultures.  A highly interactive workshop, featuring a case study, role play, team work, and more.

 

This one day workshop provides practical hands on experience of influence, primarily in a matrix organization; where informal power is the driver for success. We equip you with relevant best practice tools for influencing without authority; you will be involved in recreating and re-running real interpersonal situations using the learning to discover specific behavior patterns, relate to them, investigate different approaches and learn how to conduct themselves in enabling objective based actions.

 

Key takeaway: best practices for leading and influencing without authority, including the three essentials model: stakeholder leadership, team orientation and individual adjustment. Do you have the proper toolset to influence the bears when you lack the authority?

 

Workshop objectives: 

  • Identify stakeholders perspectives, and employ the appropriate communication and influencing style;
  • Exercise situational based influence through reading interpersonal cues and body language;
  • Practice the secrets of persuasion in getting others’ support;
  • Create presentations, with the listeners’ preferences in mind;
  • Employ concepts of Gestalt and NLP in influencing;
  • Analyze areas for personal improvement;
  • Convince the organizational bear by planning a tailored, systematic approach for gaining support, resources and collaboration from individuals in organizations where you have little or no formal influence

 

Who should attend? 

  • Engineers and developer, architects and business analysts, required to persuade others in teams and in business;
  • Project, Program and portfolio managers who need to gain support from business and development;
  • Scrum masters and teams looking to further their ideas in a collaborative environment;
  • Generally – those wishing to learn how to perform their job better by enlisting the support of others