This course will show you the importance of personal and inter-personal skills (the so-called ‘soft skills’) for your success as an Enterprise Architect and give you tools and hands-on practice to start improving your potential to make a lasting impact on the organisation(s) you work for.
You will learn the basics of Emotional Intelligence and how to improve this in yourself and others; practice your ability to focus, observe and empathise; practice your listening skills; get a new perspective on how to deal with change resistance; practice a personalised approach to stakeholder engagement; use theatrical techniques to make your presentations memorable experiences; and learn the basic steps towards becoming a trusted advisor and partner to the business.
This course will be a combination of theory and practice. You will be expected to work together with other participants, using a mix of your own stories and experiences, examples and cases to bring the material to life.
- The importance of Emotional Intelligence
- The art of keeping and changing your focus
- Winning conversations – it all start with listening
- Understanding change resistance and how to overcome it
- Stakeholder engagement and how to make it personal
- Be noticed, listened to and followed by practicing your charisma
- How to become a trusted advisor
- At the end of the course, you will have learned:
- The importance of Emotional Intelligence and how to improve it
- How to become better at focusing on the right thing at the right time
- How to use listening as a powerful influencing tool
- How to tap into the positive side of change resistance
- How to make stakeholder a personal experience for your stakeholders and you
- How to become a powerful and memorable presenter
- The steps to take to build and maintain trust inside your organisation
Your highly experienced learning guide will use their own experience as a successful enterprise architect to teach you how to become a more impactful architect by improving your personal and inter-personal skills.
You will be expected to participate in individual and team exercises to apply the knowledge you gain through the course. Be prepared to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty, but make sure to have a lot of fun in the process, too. Some of this material is seriously funny!
You will have to do some homework before you come to the course, so that you have sufficient background information about your current or past stakeholders to use in some of the exercises.
You will be asked to listen, talk and present to each other to help you learn how to communicate effectively with the people in your organisation.
You will take away frameworks, models and examples for you to continue to practice when you leave the course.
Expect to spend 2hrs with your coach post the course who will meet you to offer support.
Enterprise Architects
Business Architects
Solution Architects
Solution Architects
Infrastructure Architects
IT Leaders who want to establish world class enterprise architecture capabilities
Before the course you must know about:
- Who your key stakeholders are for enterprise architecture in your business. Bring a completed stakeholder management matrix.
- Some of your own stories of successes, failures, memorable moments, aspirations and disappointments.
- Your personal elevator pitch about why you want to become a successful Enterprise Architect.
Note: All the information above is for your personal use and will help you to complete the exercises. You are not required to share any information, especially if it is not publicly available.
This is a one day course. Start: 9.00am and Finish: 5.00pm (approximately)
Course cost $800
Maximum attendees: 16
Your course is delivered by Bard Papegaaij
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