Drama triangle

Creating Powerful Relationships
Improve your influencing skills. Mike Cook

06/09/11

Overall objectives
Within organisations, relationships are of key importance. Our ability to create effective relationships is of enormous importance. These relationships lie at the heart of our ability to influence the organisation around us and to be seen as an effective member of the organisational “team”. This short programme uses approaches from Transactional Analysis to help the participants’ shape and develop these relationships. By the end of this programme participants will: • • • • • Understand how to assess their impact on others using the TA frameworks. Have techniques through which they can reflect and assess their own current ego state. Understand the triggers that shift them into unproductive ego states. Understand what is required for development in these areas. Understand how to improve a specific relationship.

Day 1
Setting the Scene By the end of this programme the participants will: • Be able to understand the impact of their behaviour on their key business relationships. • • Be aware of their ego state and its impact on these relationships. Have approaches to improve their relationships and their ability to influence and work with others.

Development within organisations By the end of this session participants will: • Understand the scope and limits to personal development within an organisational framework

Who am I? Who are they? By the end of this session participants will: • Have a visceral understanding of how perceptions of self and others are shaped. Introducing the Ego states By the end of this session participants will: • Will understand the ego states. • Others perceptions of their ego state. • The nature and importance of transactions between different ego states Key relationships within my role, and my role in these. By the end of this session participants will: • Have reflected on the transactions and ego states at play within a