Are you focused on building your strategic advocacy and consultative intelligence either within your organisation or in your own venture?
In this expert-facilitated course, you will learn how to form trusted valuable partnerships that produce strategic outcomes.
Content
You'll learn what it takes to operate in complex environments where priorities shift, expectations are high, and decisions need to be made quickly.
Communicate with confidence, speak the language of the business and use shared-ownership action plans to ensure the right buy-in and allocated resources.
This program is grounded in practical application - working through real scenarios where there are competing priorities, differing views and pressure to deliver outcomes.
As you learn throughout this program, you will be networking with other professionals who are facing similar challenges, building their credibility and strengthening their professional practice.
Program Modules
|
Module 1
|
The Strategic L&D Partner
Becoming a trusted advisor
Aligning capability needs to organisational priorities
Understanding Capability Gap Analysis
|
|
Module 2
|
Relationship Intelligence, Advocacy and Trust
Building trust through credibility and authenticity
Networking and advocating for capability needs in complex environments
Employing soft influence and navigating positional power dynamics
|
|
Module 3
|
Influencing Through Discovery
Discovery-led Influence Mindset
Identifying performance problems, systemic issues and emerging capability gaps
Collaborative problem-solving
Gaining commitment to defined objectives
|
|
Module 4
|
Communicating with Impact and Data
Data Storytelling
Using media intelligence to create cut-through communications
Speaking the language that stakeholders understand and relate to
|
|
Module 5
|
Managing Shared Ownership
Identifying uncertainty, risk, complexity and accountability
Shared ownership clarity and action plans
|
|
Module 6
|
Integration and Action Planning
Focus on building your strategic influence
|
Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be equipped to:
- Demonstrate the mindset and behaviours of a strategic L&D business partner
- Build trust and navigate challenging organisational dynamics with confidence
- Communicate tailored, evidence-based messages that influence decision-makers
- Diagnose real capability needs through skilled questioning, listening, and discovery
- Build advocacy and facilitate collaborative stakeholder engagement that ensures shared ownership of outcomes
Audience
This program is for:
- Learning Professionals and Practitioners
- Human Resources Business Partners
- Program and Project Leads
- Public Service internal consultants
- Independent and Freelance Consultants
- Career builders in a variety of organisational settings
Complete this course if you want to:
- Learn how to build advocacy for success within complex organisational environments - engaging stakeholders, decision-makers and leaders using data and evidence
- Build your consultative intelligence by diagnosing needs, challenging assumptions, and guiding stakeholders toward better decisions through insight-led conversations
- Translate strategic business priorities into L&D solutions that deliver aligned, measurable impact
- Build trust, manage expectations, communicate clearly and navigate complex personalities and politics with confidence
Delivery Options
Presentation Skills is offered virtually, face-to-face and in-house.
Virtual delivery | Live facilitated virtual workshop One day or split across two half day sessions. Access to Zoom is required.
Face-to-face delivery | 1-day, face-to-face course in CBD locations across Australia.
In-house delivery | Delivered to your team exclusively, online or in a location of your choice. Find out more about in-house delivery.
Follow-up Impact Session
The follow-up impact of your learning session is conducted once per quarter and is an opportunity to network with learners from other courses The focus in this session is on application of learning
