Overview

The Political Animal Indicator (PAI) ® Facilitator Guidebook is the technical manual for the PAI ® workbook, The Political Profiling Questionnaire (PPQ) ©, and the Political Animal Workshop (PAW) PowerPoint presentation. 

The Guidebook has been designed to provide Learning and Development (L&D) professionals (e.g. Trainers, Coaches, Consultants and Business School Lecturers, etc) with the knowledge and skills they need to successfully use the PAI ® booklet and PAW PowerPoint presentation in group learning contexts. 

The 32 page PAI ® Facilitator Guidebook contains 2 instructional Sections :

• Section 1 - General Notes
• Section 2 - PAW Facilitation Notes

Section 1  -  General Notes

This Section helps L&D professionals to gain a working understanding of the PAI ® booklet and how it can be used in group learning contexts to help people develop a positive set of political behaviours that enables them to co-create happier and healthier political work cultures and careers. 

This Section also explains the Questionnaire's administration and scoring process.

Section 2  -  PAW Facilitation Notes

This Section provides L&D professionals with a detailed set of facilitation notes that can be used to successfully deliver a half day (4 hour) Political Animal Workshop to any organisational audience. 

The PAW is an experiential, intensive and highly interactive Workshop that fully engages and immerses Participants in the learning process.  Some of the key learning points covered during a PAW include a...

          •   Reappraise   - the routine assumptions they make about Workplace Politics

          •   Recognise   - the different Power Sources that exist in their Workplace

          •   Review    - The Political Animal Framework © and their own Political Animal Profile ®
          •   Reflect   -  on the personal and professional implications of their own Political Animal Profile ®
          •   Register    - which Political Skills they want to develop in order to become more influential
          •   Write   - a practice based and positive Political Skills self-development Agenda

Summary

The Political Animal Indicator (PAI) ® Facilitator Guidebook provides L&D professionals with the knowledge and skills they need to successfully deliver an experiential half day (4 hour) Political Animal Workshop to any type of organisational audience using a bespoke PAW PowerPoint presentation.

Technical Information

Instrument:   The Political Animal Indicator ® Facilitator Guidebook
Edition:           2022
Format:           32 Page, A4, Facilitator Guidebook
Audience:       Learning & Development (L&D) professionals (i.e. Trainers, Coaches & Consultants, etc)

Package:         PAI ® Guidebook, digital PAI ® booklet & questionnaire, and the PAW PowerPoint presentation

Usage:             Self-Study, PAW Facilitation & Workshop delivery, Positive Political Skills development
Author:           Wayne Thomas, M.A., M.Sc., M.B.A., Ph.D.