In today’s workplace environment, productive collaboration calls for employees to excel in communicating, planning, organizing, negotiating, and participating in decision making with their peers and their bosses. This seminar will provide strategic skills for employees at all stages of their careers in successfully partnering with their bosses. After participating in this seminar, you will be better equipped to support your organization’s/boss’s goals, adapt to various communication styles to successfully influence and work with your boss and others, establish trust, credibility, and authority.

What You Will Cover 

• Defining Your Strategic Partnership - Identify the characteristics of effective partnering and use these features to create a positive partnership
• Developing a Trusting Relationship with Your Boss - Adapt methods to complement your boss’s preferences by completing a self-evaluation exercise and creating a blueprint for change
• Planning Skills to Anticipate and Proactively Support Your Boss - Choose and apply the active listening skills that will allow you to anticipate your boss’s needs by completing a communication assessment and enacting a listening skills role play
• Extending the Partnership - Define and integrate your personal power bases by revisiting trust and by completing a “power-base planner”
• Aligning and Expanding Your Partnering Relationship - Use influencing and persuasive communication skills in planning and delivering a business case presentation

How You Will benefit 

• Consistently anticipate your boss’s needs
• Gain the respect of your boss and be taken seriously
• Get what you need from others to accomplish your job and achieve your boss’s goals
• Have the authority to make and act on decisions
• Confidently represent your boss
• Be seen by your boss and by others as a valuable professional resource
• Develop a trusting relationship with your boss
• Partner with multiple bosses and other office professionals\Effectively use time and get more things done in a day