Confident in dealing with status, power and hierarchy

Power games, pressure, manipulation and other games

• Types of power situations in the company (overt/covert, active/passive).
• Recognize your own power games.
• Remain confident in power games and blockades.
• Appropriate handling of hierarchies.

Skills and aspects of dealing wisely with status, power & hierarchy

• Horizontal and vertical systems.
• The levels of effectiveness in the horizontal system.
• Status characteristics in the vertical system.
• Power sensitivity - sharpening perception.
• Recognize your own behavior patterns.
• Power is and works "embodied".
• Status and power as motives worthy of recognition.

Obstructive factors

• The three different motivational motives and their effects.

Expand your personal repertoire of methods

• Choose your focus - Choose your attitude.
• Use the surprise effect: patterns, pattern interruption and the wonder wheel.
• Intellectual discourse, status talk and territorial behavior - the power of body language or: Why logic is sometimes completely overrated.
• The benefits and handling of high and low status.
• Ideas for communicating at eye level even without eye level.
• Use metacommunication to clarify the process.

Assert yourself at all costs?

• The three spheres of influence - or: Hierarchy is a restriction.
• Know and recognize restrictions.
• Targeted handling of restrictions.