“Yes, good people do play politics”

Somewhere in your organisation, a good manager has just decided politics is a game they can't win. What has that cost you?

Ego, power, politics — labels we use easily, and rarely define. Once they stick to a person, the curiosity stops. Alina has been intrigued by seeing them at play from three angles: advising CEOs and their executive teams, assessing the layers below them, and working with senior HR leaders. Every organisation says it wants leaders who act with integrity for enterprise-wide impact. So how do we keep ending up with the ones we call big-ego political players?

Alina brings the provocations. The thinking is ours to do together.

You'll leave with

• A conversation you can open with your executive team about the conditions they're creating, whether or not they intended them
• A way to handle the talent review moment when someone gets labelled political, and a read on what that label is costing you
• A clearer sense of when you're looking at a development gap and when you're looking at a design problem

Expect examples from first-time managers to the C-suite, and to be asked what you're seeing in your own organisation.