Informal Leadership

Benefits for you

• insight into the essentials needed to succeed as an informal leader
• tools to help you function better as a leader without formal authority
• insight and training in communication competencies
• the ability to gain greater influence across the organisation
• informally lead people with impact

Benefits for your company

• an informal leader with greater impact and the will to influence others
• commitment to lead self and others without formal responsibility
• ability to communicate clearly and constructively with key stakeholders
• optimised interdisciplinary collaboration across projects and teams

Who takes part?

This course is relevant to anyone who has responsibilities across the organisation, while lacking formal management authority over the people who work ‘for’ them. This could include project managers, project staff, product managers, marketing managers, organisational consultants and HR consultants.

Though this can be taken as stand alone course, it works well in combination with Communication with stakeholders, Change management and Business value creation.

During the course you will work on:

• Work on your own role and behaviour as an informal leader
• Learn how to create followship as a leader without formal authority
• Develop capability to influence across the organisation
• Learn how to communicate with impact
• Practice key skills and tools to gain further impact in your role

The price includes

During the course

• 3 training days
• meals and refreshments
• course material with relevant theory

After the course

• course certificate

Practical learning method

The course takes place over 2 consecutive, intensive training days. The training centres on your own experiences and reflections and how these relate to the theory. You will have ongoing opportunity for personal development, as throughout the course you will receive feedback and sparring from both your fellow course participants and the facilitator.

A follow-up day after the course gives you the opportunity to reflect on your own practices and approaches, exchange experiences with fellow course participants, and build upon the tools you have gained. This is to help ensure that your new competencies are both practically useful and sustainable in your role.