Allies, values and influence
Fair sponsorship, men as allies and values-based influence.
Three hours on allies, values and influence: fair sponsorship by design and men as allies, leading self through values and ethics, and the foundations of power, authority and ethical influence.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 3 hours
- Where
- Leading yourself
- Price
- £69
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Senior leaders, sponsors and managers who influence who gets on in public and voluntary sector bodies
Overview
Sponsorship left to chance follows familiarity, so the people who hold influence carry real responsibility for who gets on. Part of the Immerse Leading on your own terms, this Focus starts with sponsorship by design: homophily, Ibarra's sponsorship spectrum, Dobbin and Kalev on what works, Smith and Johnson's Good Guys and positive action under section 158 of the Equality Act 2010. It then turns to leading self through Schwartz's values theory, character strengths, three ethical lenses, moral courage and Neff's self-compassion. The course ends with French and Raven's bases of power, Weber's types of legitimate authority, persuasion versus manipulation, and Mandela and de Klerk.
Aims
The aim is to help leaders with influence use it fairly and visibly: designing sponsorship that widens rather than narrows opportunity, acting as a genuine ally, staying anchored in their own values and drawing on power in ways that remain on the right side of the ethical line.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Design a sponsorship approach that counters homophily, drawing on Dobbin and Kalev and the scope for positive action under the Equality Act 2010.
- Identify your core values and use ethical lenses and moral courage to act consistently with them when it matters.
- Distinguish persuasion from manipulation and choose the bases of power you draw on in line with your values.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Explain how homophily, the broken rung and the glass cliff mean that sponsorship left to chance can reproduce existing advantage.
- Distinguish stated from revealed values and use Goleman's five components of emotional intelligence to assess how you show up under pressure.
- Distinguish influence, power and authority, and identify which of French and Raven's six bases of power you and others are drawing on.
- Use Ibarra's sponsorship spectrum, Dobbin and Kalev's evidence and Smith and Johnson's allyship practices to sponsor across difference.
- Apply the consequences, duty and character lenses to an ethical dilemma and plan the words you would use to act with moral courage.
- Compare Weber's traditional, charismatic and rational-legal authority and assess the risk of an organisation depending on charismatic authority.
- Design a fair sponsorship scheme that is open and accountable, distinguishing lawful positive action from positive discrimination.
- Identify the learnable factors behind resilience, self-compassion and managing the imposter phenomenon, and plan self-leadership strategies to sustain yourself.
Built from 3 parts.
3 hours of learning.
- 01Sponsorship by designFair sponsorship and men as alliesBitesize · Women in Leadership1 module
- 02Leading from the inside outValues-based leadership, ethics and identityBitesize · Leadership1 module
- 03Where influence really comes fromPower, authority and influence at workBitesize · Influence, Persuasion and Negotiation1 module