Power and Politics: Developing Conflict Management Skills

Organizations—from companies to communities—suffer not due to the presence of politics, but the absence of political skills to effectively manage those politics. This 2-day program aims to dispel the misconceptions of what power—the basis of social behavior—really means within an organizational context, and give participants a practical grasp of what the actual sources of power are. Technical skills are needed to find solutions to problems, but political skills are needed to find resolutions to conflicts. This program will provide a systematic approach for learning these political skills. By the end of this program, participants will have gained substantial insight into how best to harness their political skills for effective management of conflict at different levels of the organization and different stages of its growth.