Leadership Intensives / The System

Influence Without Authority

Building influence with peers and stakeholders when you cannot rely on formal authority.

$4,000

six sessions

What This Focus Area Builds

These are the capabilities the Intensive develops. Which of them the work concentrates on is set with your Leadership Faculty member, from where you actually need to grow.

Mapping interests, incentives, and informal power

Building coalitions before you need them

Framing your agenda in the other side's currency

Managing up: turning your boss into an ally

Navigating politics with your integrity intact

What It Includes

Six individual sessions with a member of the Leadership Faculty
The Insight Leadership Skill Assessment - a self-assessment of your competence across the skills that decide performance in complex environments
Structured exercises and work between sessions

Read First

How to Build Professional Relationships

Also in The System

Strategic and Systems Skills

Reading the system that keeps producing a problem, rather than solving the problem in front of you each time.

Building a Culture of Innovation

Creating the psychological safety and productive disagreement that innovation depends on.

Leading Through Uncertainty

Leading and deciding when the answer is not known and others are looking to you.

See all eighteen Intensives

Start with a conversation

Fifteen minutes with a member of the Leadership Faculty, at no cost. Tell us what you are facing and we will tell you whether this is the right Intensive for it.

Book a 15-minute intro call