Workplace Politics and Making Sure They Don’t Do You In – In Just 7 Minutes with Nancy Halpern

 Know how to getting out of a career rut and overcome turf wars, silos, gossip, and information hoarding Learn how to make your colleagues your fans not your competitor Know the difference between competence and confidence in the workplace Resources/Links: Get Nancy's Free ebooks: The Dealing with Your Boss, Dealing with a Peer, or Dealing with Your Team: www.nancyhalpern.com Summary Nancy Halpern is a nationally recognized leadership consultant and pioneer in the field of talent development who diagnoses political dysfunction in organizations. Leveraging thought leadership and intellectual capital from over twenty years of client engagements, Nancy helps companies find solutions to the most intractable of problems office politics. With a proprietary model based on the core concepts of Political IQ, Nancy assesses organizations, teams, and individuals to pinpoint the sources and causes of workplace dysfunction. In this episode, Nancy shares wisdom learned through coaching top executives and emphasizes the aspects of handling workplace politics. Check out these episode highlights: 02:39 – Nancy's ideal client: Private companies of 500-2000 employees 03:14 – Problem she helps solve: workplace politics that derailed careers and teams from meeting their business objectives 04:25 – Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to Nancy: "Turf wars, silos, gossip, and information hoarding." 04:56 – Common mistakes people make when trying to solve that problem: Most teams are not functioning teams because teams are a group of people that share a common objective for which they're all accountable for, which means it shows up in their incentive systems and their reviews. But nobody does the hard work of figuring out what that is and making sure that's your primary team. 06:16 – Nancy’s Valuable Free Action (VFA): Start quite assuming that the other person's right, then go from there. Because if the other person's resistant, guess what, they think they're right too. 07:12 – Nancy’s Valuable Free Resource(VFR): nancyhalpern.com 07:54 – Q:Can political intelligence be taught? A: "It can be taught if you stop denying it exists." Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “When something goes south, you don't want to be the one holding the bag so you're going to find (someone to pass) half that bag along.” -@nhalpernClick To Tweet “Start assuming that the other person's right, then go from there.If you begin from a different point of view, the logic will follow. And you'll be able to find a way to be more seamlessly woven together.” -@nhalpernClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland: Hello everyone and a very warm welcome to another edition of Marketing The Invisible. My name's Tom Poland Beaming out to from on the sand as usual next to the waves, in a little Castaways Beach, Queensland Australia joined today by Nancy Halpern. Nancy, good day and where are you hanging out? Nancy Halpern: I'm hanging out in New York City where I usually hang out. Tom Poland: NYC, the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps. Nancy appropriately, therefore, is a nationally recognized leadership consultant and pioneer in the field of talent development. And this is where it gets interesting, her diagnosis of political dysfunction in organizations.