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Power and Influence

4 days, residential

Explore the roots of personal power and develop the skills to manage situations with political sensitivity and integrity.

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Sally Potter 

Programme
Managing People Effectively
Organisational and Interpersonal Skills in Management 
Increasing Personal Power
What are you an expert in?
Generating a trusting environment, in which people can explore and progress personal and professional issues.
Working one-to-one or in small personal-development groups, enabling the client to tap into their own resourcefulness to develop as a whole person.
Helping the client recognise and regulate the impact of emotional and physical patterns on performance.
Lecturing in applications of the Centaur model in managerial and executive development.
Working with women moving into managerial roles, and coaching on gender-related challenges.
Teaching the organisational relevance of diversity, the psychology of change, interpersonal skills and conflict-handling.
What is it you are currently thinking about/care about in the world of work?
Most people who come to a Praxis course want to make a difference to the world, in some way, through the work they do. They would also like to make changes to their lives outside work. Not doing either leads to a loss of meaning in both. One result of this is that good people leave organisations for the wrong reasons.
I care passionately about improving the world of work. The difference I want to make is to help people to understand, reconcile and act congruently on these parallel human desires.
What would you like to see change in organisations?
I am continually impressed by the energy, commitment and life-force that people pour into the organisations they work in. I would like to see that human endeavour matched at all levels, by their organisation`s choices in products, services and stakeholder relationships.
What is special about Praxis?
It reaches the parts of a human being that other development organisations do not touch.
Why does the programme you teach at Praxis matter in business?
It is increasingly clear that the professional competence of people working under challenging conditions is linked directly to their sense of personal well-being and self-worth.
Managers and professionals attend the programmes I teach at Praxis to gain insight and skill in managing themselves and others more productively.
How would you describe your teaching style?
When lecturing in a plenary, I like to allow managers the opportunity to experience directly what we are describing in abstract or in principle. This means my style weaves models and concepts with the learner`s own experience and sensations of the subject matter.
The goal is to help the client internalise both cognitive understanding and emotional impact, to sustain the application of the Praxis experience back at work.
Education and Qualifications
BA (Hons) English Language & Literature, Leeds University, 1975
Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Leeds University, 1976
MSc Management in Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1991
Associate and qualifed Psychometic Feedback Counsellor, Executive Development
Assessment Centre, 1998
Fitness Instructor, 1999, 2002
16 years Bio-energetics, body-work and Centaur training, 1986-present
Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor psychotherapy, 2004
Work Experience
1978-1994: Teacher and in-service trainer
I shared a love of language, poetry and story in my first career as a teacher of 11-18 year
olds. I later took that passion in to education more broadly, working with both primary and
secondary school teachers.
1994-1996: Living, teaching and `getting a life` in Cyprus.
1996-1998: Research and Development Consultant.
I worked on national assessment initiatives for the UK Qualifications and Curriculum
Authority, and as research and development consultant and project manager for the
University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate.
1996-current: Independent Management Development Consultant
I specialise in personal development of professional people. The highlights include working
on Praxis open programmes with high calibre individuals who are committed and
courageous in progressing their personal and professional growth.
I have contributed to Praxis programmes with corporate clients in transition through plenary input, facilitation of personal development groups and one-to-one coaching.
Also, lecturing, small group facilitating and leading exercise components on development programmes for women.
I have led workshops in equality and diversity for UK public sector agencies and departments, and facilitated groups developing personal potential in the financial services sector.
At the Cyprus International Institute of Management, I lead a personal and professional effectiveness module in an Executive Development Programme.
I have led skills workshops for MSc programmes in human resources, on emotional intelligence, conflict handling, the psychology of change and assertiveness, for the University of Manchester and the Institute for Development Policy and Management.
My international work includes, one-to-one psychometric feedback with the Nigerian Institute of Management; in-pilot executive development programme with senior women of the Cyprus Civil Service; and management development in Malta.
Interests
The outdoors: woods, mountains, walking and gardening - all essential to my wellbeing
Fitness: exercise, cooking and eating.
Family and close friends, time with loved ones.
Reading - current interests, fiction (when on holiday) and poetry.