A transformational 2-day programme for experienced HR leaders who want to increase their strategic influence.
In today’s complex organisations, HR leaders are expected to deliver change, drive performance and enable collaboration across boundaries – often without formal authority. This practical, feedback-rich programme is designed to help you lead initiatives that matter by building trust, aligning stakeholders and navigating resistance.
Whether working with senior stakeholders, cross-functional peers or external partners, you’ll leave this programme with the tools, language and confidence to lead initiatives that matter.
For who
Senior HR leaders
Format
Face-to-face
workshops
Virtual workshops
Self study
Duration
4 month
programme
20 hours
ProgramME Objectives
The Programme draws on our extensive global experience and understanding of how top performing HR leaders effectively influence without authority.
- Influence across boundaries
Use strategic communication, stakeholder mapping and engagement skills to gain support and alignment from those outside your HR function - Communicate persuasively
Combine logic, emotion and storytelling to engage others, build trust and gain commitment to ideas and actions - Facilitate collaboration and dialogue
Use facilitation techniques to lead productive discussions, maintaining relationships while moving towards common goals - Build personal influence strengths
Understand your sources of personal power and how to use them with authenticity and confidence - Apply practical tools – Use proven tools and frameworks to plan and deliver influential interventions
- Shape strategic conversations about AI
Confidently contribute to business decisions around the use of AI in HR, ensuring alignment with organisational values, ethics and employee trust
Our Influence without authority ProgramME
DAY 1: ME AND MY POWER
How to harness your personal power, persuasion skills, emotion and storytelling to unlock your influence
The challenge of influencing without authority: What works, what fails, what’s the potential if you can get it right
Understanding personal power: Positional v personal power and how to harness it
Persuasion techniques: Balancing logic and emotion to influence decision making, nurturing trust and credibility
Storytelling for influence: Why and how stories movie people and how you can use them
Case study activity: Influencing a cross-functional business initiative
DAY 2: APPLYING INFLUENCE TO MY ROLE AND ORGANISATION
Applying your skills to the wider organisational context – understanding, facilitating and leading when you can’t control the outcome
Stakeholder mapping: Learning to map who matters, what motivates them and what barriers exist
Polarity thinking: Exploring how certain workplace challenges aren’t problems to solve, but tensions to manage
Facilitating progress: Practical tools to encourage participation, engagement and ownership
Navigating conflict and resistance
Case study activity: apply your influencing skills to a real workplace situation and receive feedback
Wrap up and reflection
Our Influence without authority ProgramME
DAY 1: ME AND MY POWER
How to harness your personal power, persuasion skills, emotion and storytelling to unlock your influence
The challenge of influencing without authority: What works, what fails, what’s the potential if you can get it right
Understanding personal power: Positional v personal power and how to harness it
Persuasion techniques: Balancing logic and emotion to influence decision making, nurturing trust and credibility
Storytelling for influence: Why and how stories movie people and how you can use them
Case study activity: Influencing a cross-functional business initiative
DAY 2: APPLYING INFLUENCE TO MY ROLE AND ORGANISATION
Applying your skills to the wider organisational context – understanding, facilitating and leading when you can’t control the outcome
Stakeholder mapping: Learning to map who matters, what motivates them and what barriers exist
Polarity thinking: Exploring how certain workplace challenges aren’t problems to solve, but tensions to manage
Facilitating progress: Practical tools to encourage participation, engagement and ownership
Navigating conflict and resistance
Case study activity: apply your influencing skills to a real workplace situation and receive feedback
Wrap up and reflection
