Centrica – Senior Leader Development Programme

ELECTIVE MODULE Leading Others

People and Inter Relational Skills Aim The aim of this elective module is for you to have an undeniable, visceral experience of what it feels like, to yourself and to others, when you make unconscious and conscious choices about how you relate with other people. Learning objectives 1. Understand how individual and collective biology influences how successful we are. 2. Understand what it feels like, physically and cognitively, when we contract and choose to ‘play not to lose’. 3. Learn what it feels like to others to have a real-world experience of you contracting and ‘playing not to lose’. 4. Explore a series of practical steps for to extend ourselves and ‘play to win’ and experience the difference in impact on others this creates in the moment. Practice • Practice moving, connecting, and interacting with others to see, hear and feel the difference that use of self makes in the process of relating with others. • Be able to blend and redirect the energy of others using different language patterns. • Have a simulated experience of contracting and ‘playing not to lose.’ • Learn how to extend ourselves when we ‘play to win’ and the impact this creates. Action plan • Find a mentor or select one of your current mentors to help you. • Devise one simple, active experiment to test how you relate with someone in the workplace who you need to connect more with in your current role. • Rehearse your experiment with a peer from the group. • Run the experiment and ask for feedback. • Review the outcomes of your experiment with your peer from the group (what went well?)

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