IMPACT POLITICS SURVIVAL SUCCESS

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IMPACT POLITICS SURVIVAL SUCCESS
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What is happening?

• Why are you here?
• What do you expect from us?

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Further introductions

• Meet and know

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Visibility

• Much of the important information is visible if
  we look carefully
• What is your view of politics in academia?

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If you arent inside, it seems

• Doing deals
• Getting one over
• Scoring points
• Secrecy and subterfuge
• Mafiosi tactics
• Win-lose

Robina Chapman
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In reality, its more ethical

• Influence
• Collaboration
• Building relationships
• Openness and honesty
• Streetwise
• Win-win

Robina Chapman
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Our aim for today

• To give you a 5 piece toolkit for success in the
  academic, political environment

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Your toolkit - part one

• Political awareness
• you understand the processes in your environment
• you understand who holds power and who has
  influence
• the culture and the rules are clear to you

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Changing systems

• What does your system look like?
• What has changed?
• What has driven the change?

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Understand your system
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Force field analysis
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Understanding

• Now you see your system
• How do you feel?
• Where is your power?

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Forces in research

• Research as research
• Research as business
• Research as a large system

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Your direction

• Is not about doing the same as others
• You must develop a unique perspective
• You must ensure your chosen direction is
  consistent with the system

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Your toolkit - part two

• Recognise the players in the game
• you understand who has power and influence
• you know what they value and require
• you communicate your value to them

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Stakeholders and beneficiaries

• What are they?
• Individuals, organisations, sectors who are
• affected by your work
• have influence or power over it
• are interested in your progression
• Who are yours?

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Who are your stakeholders and beneficiaries?
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For a summary of your discussions, see the other
file IPSS_Stakeholders.doc
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Stakeholder management

• How do you manage them?
• Work out their interest and power
• (Not positive or negative at this stage)

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Prioritising
High
Impress and Engage
Keep Satisfied
Power
Be aware of (minimal effort)
Inform
Low
Interest
Low
High
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Understanding Stakeholders

• You need to establish
• Their motivations and priorities
• Their interest in you and your work
• Their opinion of you
• What information they need and how best to convey
  it
• What/who influences them
• Who they influence

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Stakeholder Analysis

• Select 1 stakeholder
• What are their priorities?
• What influences their opinions?
• What do they need to know about you?
• What is their current opinion of you?
• How do you connect with them?

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Changing your habits

• Set goals that help
• Positively formulated
• Measurable for you
• Within your locus
• Context-specific
• Ecologically balanced

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Goal setting
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Your toolkit - part three

• Understand your core values
• Recognise the constants in your life
• Understand how these relate to your system
• Use these to focus your activities

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Your toolkit - part four

• Respect yourself and others
• Recognise negative behaviours
• Challenge these (losses vs- gains)
• Develop assertive behaviours

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Assertiveness

• is the ability to express positive and negative
  ideas and feelings in an open, honest and direct
  way
• recognises our rights whilst still respecting the
  rights of others
• allows us to take responsibility for ourselves
  and our actions without judging or blaming other
  people
• allows us to constructively confront and find a
  mutually satisfying solution where conflict
  exists

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Choices - how do you respond?

• direct aggression bossy, arrogant, bulldozing,
  intolerant, opinionated, and overbearing
• indirect aggression sarcastic, deceiving,
  ambiguous, insinuating, manipulative, and
  guilt-inducing
• submissive wailing, moaning, helpless, passive,
  indecisive, and apologetic
• assertive direct, honest, accepting,
  responsible, and spontaneous

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Assertiveness
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Assertiveness 2

• Now try the second activity - think about your
  own behaviour in different situations
• In a moment we will give you some information on
  the rest of this activity

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In your groups discuss your individual perspective

• What triggers your behaviours
• Assertive
• Submissive
• Aggressive
• When do I need to
• Be more assertive
• Achieve something
• Change my pattern of behaviour
• How will I convey my new assertiveness
• time, place, words, people?

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Triggers

• Thingsin my control - Im more assertive
• Things out of my control - Im less assertive
• My mood
• How imprtant it is to me
• Other people being negative or critical

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How to be assertive

• Particularly when you have a history of
  submissive behaviour
• Time out - separate stimulus and response - give
  yourself time to decide if a request is
  reasonable and consistent you are
• Tune into the other person and work out when
  their mood is best for you

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Into small groups

• Choose a challenging situation in which you
  behave submissively or aggressively.
• Explain this to the other members of your group
• One will role play with you one will observe
• Spend a few minutes in role using assertive
  behaviours - make sure everyone has a turn

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Some assertiveness tips

• Choose the right time and place
• Be direct and specific
• Eye contact and body language
• Say I, give opinions, state your needs
• Start small and reward yourself

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Your toolkit - part five

• Preparedness
• All of this is hypothetical
• If we can anticipate the reality we will be more
  effective
• A final piece of reality

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Truth? Or not . . . .
LIES
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Actions

• Form partnerships
• Create divisions
• Use intermediates
• Apply early confrontations
• Be good and tell it
• Understand understanding
• Take responsibility
• Show facts

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Actions

• Use proper communication
• Use preliminary actions
• Introduce local quality
• Apply tit for tat and forgive
• Guard your reputation
• Pressurize
• Go with forces
• Control all options and let others choose

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Tomorrow

• You are nearly ready to return to your system
• Have you changed?
• How will you cope?
• What do you want to say to your future self?

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Postcard

• Your message to your future self
• Your address
• Our final piece of support

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Your toolkit - our contribution

• We will return the postcard in 3 months
• These slides will be available on the web
• We want to hear about your successes and
  challenges

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond
  measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that
  most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to
  be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
  Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child
  of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the
  world. There's nothing enlightened about
  shrinking so that other people won't feel
  insecure around you. We are all meant to shine,
  as children do. We are born to make manifest the
  glory of God that is within us. It's not just in
  some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our
  own light shine, we unconsciously give other
  people permission to do the same. As we are
  liberated from our own fear, our presence
  automatically liberates others.
• Nelson Mandela