​ How to lead decisions, shift behaviours and drive outcomes, regardless of your seniority

​HR has an interesting problem.

​We’re often accountable for outcomes we don’t entirely control.

​Culture. Leadership. Performance. Change. Capability. Employee experience.

​HR might own the agenda, but we don't necessarily own the budget, make the final decision or manage the people who need to make it happen.

​And yet, somehow, we're still expected to make it happen.

​So how do you influence the people who do hold the levers?

​For our September In-Focus Think Tank, Rebecca Houghton will tackle one of the most important capabilities for modern HR: how to have greater impact and influence, regardless of where you sit in the organisation.

​Because influence isn't something magically bestowed upon you with a bigger title.

​Rebecca argues that influence isn't about seniority. It's about maturity.

​And while seniority can take years to acquire, leadership maturity can be deliberately developed.

​In this practical Think Tank, we'll take Rebecca's work on influence and leadership and put it squarely into an HR context: influencing executives, challenging decisions, navigating competing agendas, getting traction for people initiatives and shifting behaviour when you can't simply tell people what to do.

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​What we'll explore

• ​Why maturity, not seniority, is one of the biggest drivers of influence and how you can accelerate it.

• ​How to diagnose your current influencing approach and identify the one or two changes that could make the biggest difference.

• ​How to make the case for an idea when you don't control the decision, budget or resources.

• ​How to shift behaviours and build commitment rather than simply getting agreement in the room.

• ​How to influence upwards, sideways and across the organisation without relying on hierarchy.

• ​How to turn the session into action through a real workplace experiment.

​Less "how do we get a seat at the table?"

​More "what are you going to do with your influence once you're there?"

​About Rebecca Houghton

​Rebecca Houghton is the founder of BoldHR aad a leading Australian authority on mid-level leadership, with more than 25 years' experience building talent, leaders and careers.

​Formerly Head of Talent and Careers for Australia Post Group, Rebecca has led large teams and business units and has helped develop the capability and careers of thousands of people. She is the bestselling author of IMPACT: 10 Ways to Level Up Your Leadership and creator of the B-Suite leadership approach, focused on helping leaders create C-Suite-level impact without needing the C-Suite title.

​Her work is practical, evidence-based and refreshingly focused on what actually changes behaviour and gets results.

​Rebecca describes herself as being dedicated to building “B-Suite Leaders with C-Suite Impact”, and her current work includes the B-Suite Benchmarks and leadership programs focused on influence, strategic thinking and productivity. (BoldHR® by Rebecca Houghton) Her background includes leading Talent and Careers at Australia Post, and she is also an AHRI Talent Strategy award winner and author. (Australian HR Institute)

​Commitment matters.

​Think Tanks work because people don't just register. They turn up, contribute, ask questions and bring their experience into the room. A small ticket price helps create a room full of people who genuinely want to be part of the conversation.

​Because we're not here to create more HR content for you to consume.

​We're here to make HR easier, together.

​And when HR has more capacity, confidence and capability, we can do more than respond to work.

​We can help shape it.

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​A few practical things

​Recording
This Think Tank will be recorded. We will not email out the recording, you need to be online. However our recordings will be available to our humaneer members in the community.

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