Leading without formal authority
Two-day seminar on lateral leadership: having an effect where you cannot instruct anyone, in projects and in technical leadership.
In projects, in technical leadership and in staff roles people lead without being able to instruct. The responsibility is there, the authority is not. That raises a question line management never has to answer: where does your effect come from.
The answer sits in three areas this seminar works on: clarity about goals and roles, agreements you can rely on, and the ability to negotiate expectations openly rather than assume them.
Content and modules
- Your own role: mandate and its limits, also towards the line organisation
- Sources of influence: expertise, reliability, access, relationship
- Negotiating expectations: conversations with people involved and their managers
- Reliable agreements: getting commitments, recording them, following up
- Conflict without authority: naming friction, escalating with judgement
- Difficult constellations: people with double workloads, quiet refusal, questions of rank
- Transfer: preparing your own open situations
What you take away
- Clarity about your mandate and its limits
- A way to settle expectations early and openly
- Agreements that hold without formal authority
- An approach to refusal and to questions of rank
- Prepared conversations for your own open points
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