Overview
The Political Savvy Profile® Facilitator Guidebook provides Learning and Development Professionals with a Technical Manual for using The Political Savvy Profile® booklet in both Group and Individual Learning contexts.
The 52 page Political Savvy Profile® Facilitator Guidebook contains 3 instructional Sections:
Section 1 - Facilitation Notes
Section 2 - Questionnaire Notes
Section 3 - Workshop Notes
Section 1 - Facilitation Notes
This Section provides Trainers, Coaches and Consultants with a self-development process that enables them to gain a complete understanding of The Political Savvy Profile® and it’s Questionnaire and how it can be used in different learning contexts.
The section also explains how a Facilitator can Register their Guidebook with The Academy for Political Intelligence, in order to receive a copy of both ‘The Political Savvy Workshop’ PowerPoint presentation plus the Email version of The Political profiling Questionnaire®. Details of advanced Facilitator development training is also included in this Section.
Section 2 - Questionnaire Notes
This Section describes The Political Profile Questionnaire's© administration and scoring processes. It provides a developmental rationale for the 36 Questionnaire questions which can be used to explore someone’s responses to individual questions, should a Facilitator be acting in a Coaching capacity as opposed to a Training delivery role. This Section also explains how to use the Email version of Questionnaire as a pre-Workshop (time-saving) administration activity.
Section 3 - Workshop Notes
This Section provides Learning and Development Professionals with a comprehensive set of facilitation notes they can use to successfully deliver the ½ day (4 hour) ‘Political Savvy Workshop’ that’s described in the Guidebook, to any Organisational participant experience level.
The Political Savvy Workshop is based on the 6 Step political skills development process described in The Political Savvy Profile® booklet. This experiential and highly interactive Workshop is designed to engage and enthuse Workshop Participants in the organisational ‘politicking’ learning process.
The Political Savvy Workshop delivery Agenda is as follows:
• Welcome, Admin, Agenda & Context
• Session 1 : REVEAL- Political Perceptions
• Session 2 : REGARD- The Political Savvy Framework©
• Session 3 : RECORD- Political Savvy Profile® Scores
• Session 4 : READ- Political Savvy Profiles®
• Session 5 : REVIEW- The ‘SMART’ Political Skill Areas
- Stakeholdering - The ability to manage diverse stakeholder needs & success measures
- Morality - The ability to build trusting relationships across the political landscape
- Alignment - The ability to align your own Goals & Values with those of your Organization
- Rapport-building - The ability to engage, inspire and work with different stakeholders
- Tactical-nous - The ability to access information & take difficult decisions to achieve goals
• Session 6 : WRITE- A Political Savvy Action Plan
• Key Learning Points, Summary & Workshop Close
Summary
The Facilitator Guidebook provides Learning and Development Professionals with a comprehensive Technical Manual for The Political Savvy Profile® booklet. Trainers, Coaches and Consultants can use the Guidebook to help people create happier and healthier political work cultures, careers and communities of practice - with any type of Participant level, in any type of Organisation or Sector.
