Avoiding office politics doesn't keep you out of politics. It simply gives an advantage to people who understand how the game is played. This 97% Effective Essentials episode offers three practical ways to engage with organizational politics without feeling manipulative or fake.
The key to unlocking career success: reframing how you see and approach office politics
Why are office politics unavoidable – and so important to navigate?
A CEO’s insight: Tough lessons learned from ignoring office politics early in one’s career
Office politics defined: “the mechanism by which conflicts get resolved”
Reframe #1: “See office politics as an engineering problem”
How to build abitrary social norms into your operating model
Reframe #2: “Think like a game developer”
What do you need to engage someone on your critical path?
Managing office politics got this VP promoted, but more importantly it enabled his more important goal: elevate and better help his team flourish
Reframe #3: Change the wording
The two-column exercise that will make you playful, curious – and see office politics in a more positive light
BIO AND LINKS:
Michael Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that helps executives re-examine their assumptions about power, politics, and authenticity to get promoted, become more effective at work, and break glass ceilings holding them back. Having served 20 years in senior roles with companies across the globe, and then 7 years as a professional coach, he has helped accelerated the careers of clients from diverse industries, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, helping them get ahead – without having to sell their souls in the process. Michael is the award-winning author of Get Promoted, host of the 97% Effective career acceleration podcast, and a frequent speaker and media contributor on career advancement, leadership and navigating power and politics. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Stanford Business School Executive Education and IE Business School, where he collaborates with renowned professors, coaches, executives and experts. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University (3CP).
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