Getting the most out of your relationships at work

To get things done in the increasing complexity and uncertainty of organisational life, we all need great interpersonal skills to build effective relationships and successfully engage others.  Our ability to do so is influenced by the beliefs, attitudes and patterns of behaviour that shape our interactions with others. 

This is a very different and challenging programme which has a high impact on those who attend. Participants use their interaction with other participants as the key source of learning. It combines a tried and tested design, highly topical and relevant content and a rigorous learning approach.

Why should you attend this programme?

• Develop heightened self-awareness
• Increase your ability to engage with and influence others
• Gain greater presence, self-confidence, and impact
• Develop the resilience, emotional intelligence and flexibility to deal with the ambiguity of organisational life
• Develop a personal understanding of what you need to do to make your relationships more effective.

Programme content

• With the whole group:
  - Exploring relationships with others
  - Understanding impact on others
  - Practising new ways of relating
  - Handling conflict and emotions
  - Giving and receiving feedback.
  
• In small groups:
  - Developing new strategies for challenging workplace relationships.
  
• In self-selected workshops or 1:1 tutorials tailored to individual and group needs which can include:
  - Influencing and assertion
  - Personality profiles
  - Models for understanding relationships
  - Body language
  - Power and politics
  - Confidence building.

Who is it for?

You are a middle to senior manager, executive or professional required to develop and influence a wide variety of working relationships both internally and externally. You recognise that your capacity to build and sustain productive relationships and engage with others is pivotal to your success. You want to learn new, improved and more flexible ways of relating and influencing, and understand better when and why you find this difficult.

"Excellent tutors; flexible but delivered all the group wished for. It worked for me - a significant event in my life."

Kay Perrin
Business Training Manager
RWEnpower Ltd

Click here to understand how interpersonal relationships underpin the workplace or download as a pdf

Programme Director

Andy Smith
BA, MA, Cert Gestalt