The Political Savvy Profile ® is designed to develop positive Political Practitioner skills that equip people become more politically pro-active and powerful in their own and other organisations.

The  PSP ® booklet can be used individually (in Self-Study or Coaching contexts) or collectively (in Group Learning contexts) to help people create practice based Action Plans that help to solve 'real life' political work problems.

The PSP ® booklet achieves this by using the 6 Step Political Practitioner skills building process, where people...

           •   Step 1 :  REVEAL  -  their Political Perceptions
           •   Step 2 :  REGARD  -   the Political Savvy Framework ©  
           •   Step 3 :  RECORD  -  their Political Savvy Profile ® Scores
           •   Step 4 :  READ  -  their Political Savvy Profile ® 
           •   Step 5 :  REVIEW  -  the SMART Political Skill Areas 
           •   Step 6 :  WRITE  -  a Political Savvy Action Plan

The PSP ® also provides clarity on the 5 SMART Skill Areas considered critical for positive political influencing in  Matrix and Complex Environment (MaCE) operating structures, and 'g-local' cross-process roles, namely:

           •    S takeholdering - The ability to prioritise & manage diverse stakeholder needs & success measures

           •    M orality - The ability to build trusting key stakeholder relationships across the political landscape
           •    A lignment - The ability to align your own Goals, Ambitions & Values with those of an Organization
           •    R apport-building - The ability to authentically engage, inspire and work with different stakeholders
           •    T actical-nous - The ability to access information & take difficult decisions to achieve agreed outcomes 

In addition to its primary use as a Political Skills development booklet the PSP ® can also be used as a political culture change primer that helps people to detect and discuss the negative political practices that they, or others may have used, during teh stress-testing times of organisational transition (i.e. a merger, expansion, contraction or dissolution), inter-personal conflict, or individual 'change'.  When Negative political behaviour is typically at its most dominant, destructive, debilitating and demoralising.

Summary 

The Political Savvy Profile ® is a unique Political Skills building booklet that helps people to create happier and healthier political work cultures and careers be becoming SMART Political Practitioners.

Technical Information

Instrument:   The Political Savvy Profile ®

Edition:           2020
Format:           20 Page, A4, Workbook with a separate  Political Profiling Questionnaire ©
Metric:             2 page, A4, Paper-based, Carbonated, 36 Item Questionnaire that produces 4 Axial Score Values

Manual:          The PSP ® Facilitator Guidebook is the Technical Manual for the PSP ® booklet
Audience:       All levels, but a minimum of 1 years full time Organisational work experience
Delivery:         1/2 day (4 hours) Political Savvy Workshop, Coaching Session, Self-Study
Author:            Wayne Thomas, M.A., M.Sc., M.B.A., Ph.D.