Lateral Leadership: Leading without managerial authority: Effective leadership with competence and persuasive power

Managing without managerial authority

• Assuming and defining your management role within the organisation
• Accepting responsibility and being accountable
• Securing acceptance and recognition in your role
• Security regarding your new role – in the office and from your homeoffice
• Managing with the necessary characteristics and methods

Setting the tone and avoiding the wrong tone

• Appropriate behaviour for your position
• Creating professional boundaries vs. being a colleague
• Principles of contemporary management
• Showing appreciation for e.g. colleagues, department and entities etc.
• Appreciative treatment of employees and teams

Effective instruments of lateral leadership

• Demanding and fostering top perfomance
• Situational management: using talent, ability and potential
• Result-oriented delegation of tasks, duties and responsibilities
• Constructive and motivational communication – live and remote
• Dealing confidently with resistance

Obstacles and stumbling blocks

• Asserting yourself in difficult situations
• Avoiding typical mistakes
• Drawing up dos and don’ts

This training teaches you how to lead successfully without having disciplinary authority.

• You learn to reflect your leadership competence and receive many useful practical recommendations which help you to lead with special competence and natural authority.
• You will be able to deal with your range of influence.
• You become aware of your leading role and to reflect your image of yourself and of others.
• You will learn how to deal with and experience feedback in connection with your leadership behavior and style of communication.
• You start to improve your ability to influence getting things done.
• You become more self-confident in your behavior and in the execution of your leadership function.

This seminar is for those, who are new in their role as a leader, want to prepare themselves for such a role or improve their performance in order to lead without managerial authority.