What are the outcomes?
In this eye-opening and empowering training you will:
- learn to consciously regulate your behavior to flatten hierarchical relationships when necessary.
- recognize your influence as both a giver and receiver of space in all communication situations.
- gain tools to strengthen your coaching and facilitating work approach.
- increase your understanding of different layers of individual influence, including rank, confidence, social currencies, resources and strengths, and status behavior.
- acquire action models for functioning in low-hierarchy organizations and supporting self-management.
- provide a brief overview of the power structures in organizations and society from the perspectives of equality, inclusion, intersectionality, and multiculturalism.
- We will combine concrete tools for status expression with coaching leadership, shared expertise, strength-based approaches, and the reinforcement of self-directed agency.
About the content
Teacher/student, leader/employee, and expert/client relationships are hierarchical power dynamics based on different status positions (Rank). The next question is whether behavior (Status Behavior) reinforces this hierarchical difference, or if it mitigates it, even sometimes turning it upside down, enabling the student/employee/client to recognize and mobilize their strengths (Currencies) and boost their efficacy and agency (Confidence).
Participants will gain understanding and tools for proactive and conscious behavioral change. First we become aware of our actual behaviours, then we can align it more with our intentions and values and make more conscious choices with our behaviour - and harness it as a strategic influencing tool.
About the implementation
The training is conducted as a 2-month virtual group process, using Zoom and Howspace platforms. Once a week, the group meets on Zoom to go through the upcoming week's themes and exercises and reflects on the outcomes of the previous week´s work-based learning tasks.
Start and Orientation - Group building, psychosocial safety, introduction to the Solios Spheres framework - work-based learning task
Rank (Power Position) - Social status, both visible and invisible - role expectations - work-based learning task
Status Behavior - Visible and audible expressions of social dominance/submission - work-based learning task
Social Currencies - Strengths and agency, recognizing and mobilizing them - work-based learning task
Confidence - How we can influence each other's confidence, empower one another - work-based learning task
Power Dynamics in Organizations and Society - Equality, inclusion, and intersectionality - work-based learning task
Cases and Combinations - Reviewing concrete case simulations, combining different spheres of influence - work-based learning task
Conclusion and Reflection - Debriefing the transformation and defining next steps
