Navigating Office Politics: Redefine Your Power & Influence

Summary

In our interactive instructor-led 60-minute event, you will learn how to navigate office politics with confidence, clarity, and purpose—without compromising who you are. For many women professionals, workplace politics can feel like a hidden game with unwritten rules that favor others. This session demystifies the process and equips you with the tools to play smart, stay authentic, and step into your power. You’ll discover that political intelligence isn’t just a “nice to have”—it’s a critical leadership skill that directly impacts your visibility, advancement, and influence.

Join us, and you’ll discover:

  • How office politics contribute to your career growth & visibility
  • Top five myths of workplace politics & how they’ve been holding you back
  • Techniques to build your political capital & avoid political missteps
  • Ways to craft a political strategy that aligns with your values & career goals
  • Tools to build visibility, influence & support for your leadership journey

BONUS Exclusive Content - All registrants will receive the following to ensure greater knowledge retention:

  • Hands-on tools & note-taking guide
  • A post-event knowledge test
  • The on-demand recording
  • Workshop Recap Cheat Sheet

Program Highlights

Political Intelligence: Skills No One Talks About, But Everyone Needs

  • Techniques to identify key decision-makers and influence them strategically
  • Ways to increase your political capital through authority, trust, and reputation
  • How to avoid top political pitfalls that derail careers – and relationships

Rethinking Office Politics: Redefine Your Power & Influence

  • Learn how to overcome the belief that “all politics are bad politics”
  • Solutions for navigating politics ethically while advancing your team and mission
  • Debunking the myth that women must choose between likability and influence

Elevate Your Leadership Presence: Get Seen, Get Heard & Get Promoted

  • Learn how to build and broadcast your personal brand with intention
  • Discover keys for developing a network of allies that supports your growth
  • Methods for standing out in decision-making conversations without overstepping

Live Question & Answer Session – Have your specific questions answered!

Program Benefits

In our 60-minute program, you’ll discover how office politics isn’t about gossip and manipulation, but a means to connect and grow within your organization. You’ll walk away with a powerful toolkit to begin building your strategic influence immediately. From elevating your presence in key meetings to crafting a roadmap for your next leadership move, you’ll have what you need to grow your role, your reach, and your results.

About the Speaker

Niven Postma
Niven Postma

Niven Postma has held executive positions since she was 29, in a career that has spanned multiple sectors and roles, including: CEO of the Businesswomen’s Association, Head of the South African Reserve Bank Academy and Head of Leadership... and Culture for the Standard Bank Group (the largest bank by assets in Africa). Niven is the author of “If you don’t do Politics, Politics will do you,” a contributor to Harvard Business Review, and the Programme Director for the Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellowship. She is also a tutor at Cambridge University’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a guest lecturer at Stanford University and London Business School. Having started her career as a strategy consultant, she now works with global executive teams to build what she calls “Whole System Leadership” and so doing, fundamentally transform how they are able to work together and what they are able to achieve. She is an expert facilitator on women’s leadership development programmes around the world and is currently enrolled for her PhD in Organisational Behaviour, seeking to understand how organisational politics are different for women.