IPX - Internal Partnering Experience
Workshop
Building partnerships with coworkers is hard. Competing directives, unclear roles and responsibilities, and even impostor syndrome are barriers to delivering results.
IPX is an influence and business partnering skills program based on decades of Fortune 500 experience with 21st-century relevance.
The Basics:
Who It’s For:
Cross-functional partners with internal “customers”
Executive teams
Matrixed teams
HR, Finance, Legal, IT, Project Management, Marketing/ Communication
Outcomes:
Increased trust and stronger relationships
Consistency of business approach
Stronger individual/team brand
Better business results
Increased personal confidence
What You Will Learn:
How to identify and leverage your team's unique value proposition (and reduce imposter syndrome)
What the three partnering approaches are, and how to fit them into each project
How to build trust quickly
How to improve your most difficult coworker relationships and minimize conflict
How to manage up and get alignment with managers
The Program
Four 3-hour sessions plus workbook and coaching
Session 1 - Team and Individual Superpowers
Uncover your team's value proposition
Identify roadblocks to partnership
Get started using the partnering model
Session 2 - 3 Ways We Partner
Assess your partnering style
Identify your asks of partners
Practice the Alignment conversation model
Session 3 - Flexing to Partner
Your comfort zone vs theirs
Action plan Alignment conversations
Anticipate push-back
Session 4 - Push the Reset
Alignment conversation in action
Message your team's brand
Manage up
Josh Bersin/Deloitte
