First, identify the value to you by answering these questions:

1. What skills do you need to develop or enhance to be more effective in your position or role?
   
   
2. What areas of your job are most frustrating for you to handle?
   
   
3. Who else in your department or team would derive value from this workshop?
   
   
4. Will this workshop help address your needs and those of your teammates?
   
   
5. Do you know your manager's priorities and pressures, and whether he or she will see this workshop as helping with these?

If the answer is "yes", you are ready to speak with your manager about the workshop, and how you and your team would benefit.

Note: If you are a senior-level professional willing to act as a sponsor for this workshop, we can provide you with a "Sponsor's Kit" that describes the workshop in detail and contains information on how to present the workshop to senior management.