Lateral Leadership

Lateral leadership is about exerting influence without hierarchical authority. Flatter management structures, matrix organizations, project management, outsourcing, and virtual teams all mean that managers have to get things done through a greater number of people both inside and outside their organization, where the possibility of using classical leadership tools are limited. In such situations new competencies are becoming important and this partnership approach requires managers to achieve their goals by using a variety of tools and methods for influencing others. This training will help participants learn these instruments and their implementation.

OBJECTIVES

The Lateral Leadership training will enable participants to:

• Act as a leader without disciplinary power
• Represent their interests effectively and deliver their opinion in a convincing manner
• Learn how to ‘read’ people and communicate with them flexibly
• Learn the importance of networking, constructive persuasion and coalition building
• Build up trustful relationships and learn how to generate commitment for their own purposes
• Create shared understanding in order to balance divergent interests in a fair way

TOPICS

The following topics are some of the key learning points of the Lateral Leadership training:

• Forms of power – motivate without power
• The basic principles, responsibilities and success factors of Lateral Leadership
• Role Clarity Triangle: to understand one’s own role, and other’s role and interests
• Reaching Win-Win agreements / Integrating different points of view
• Developing rules for constructive co-operation
• The lateral ‘game board’: how to gain commitment and support, how to build up trust, and how to understand and adapt different perspectives and opinions
• Understand power games and respond in an intelligent and fair way
• Conflict solutions in Lateral Leadership
• Methods and tools of Lateral Leadership and their implementation

The trainer input presented during the course will be applied through role plays, self reflection, own real life examples, case studies and other exercises. The participants will also exchange experience with each other and they will be challenged to draw their own conclusions and apply their learning in practical situations.

TARGET GROUP

Project Managers, Process Managers, Managers in a matrix organization, Managers of virtual teams, Managers without hierarchical authority.

TIME FRAME

2 days

For more details regarding Lateral Leadership Training please contact us and we will provide you an answer based on your needs as soon as possible.

This training is also available in the following languages:

• In German
• In Hungarian
• In Romanian
• In Croatian
• In Slovenian