Expertship is for subject matter experts (or SMEs)

Expertship is for technical experts whose ideas have the potential to transform the organisation.

Everyone knows what leadership is - it is what people leaders do. Expertship describes what millions of technical experts do every day to keep their organisations, along with customers and citizens, operating effectively and safely.

Expertship is defined as the insightful application of expertise leading to optimal outcomes (Gordon & Johnson, Master Expert, Expertunity Press 2021).

Expertship describes what tech, financial, engineering, scientific, legal, actuarial, manufacturing and other experts – the unsung heroes - do to keep the lights on in any organisation, and very often innovative ways to do so more effectively. Top experts master the nine capabilities of Expertship, and transition from Expert to Master Expert (see graphic above).

Effective and transformational growth for subject matter experts

The Expertship Institute helps organisations and their experts fulfil their significant potential to add more value. We do this by helping experts master enterprise skills as well as further their technical prowess, turning narrowly focused subject matters experts into strategic expert partners. This is nearly all the thousands of experts we have worked with around the world aspire to achieve.

Expertship for Experts

We encourage subject matter experts in all fields of expertise to embrace the active growth of their own Expertship skills in order to:

• Help colleagues understand to a greater extent what they do and why it is important.

• Build their influencing and communication skills so that they are able to have more impact and create more value.

• Hone their stakeholder engagement skills so that they enjoy more win-win stakeholder relationships.

• Level-up their consulting skills so that instead of just taking the order, they are re-imagining what great could look like for their customers and stakeholders.

• Elevate their knowledge of their organisation and the context in which it operates, in order to be able to deliver break-through value.

• Develop advanced skills in championing and advocating change and transformation in their organisation.

Developing these enterprise skills means that, when combined with technical excellence, experts have have a hugely positive and elevated impact on their organisations, will be invited to be involved in more complex and interesting projects, and gain a significant increase in carrying out fulfilling work. The payoff for investing in building Expertship is worth it.

Get proactive

Three quick and ways to start elevating your Expertship skills would be to:

• Subscribe to the The Master Expert Blog.

• Explore all the free content on this website, including Top Tips for Subject Matter Experts.

• Invest in the ultimate manual in building your Expertship skills, Master Expert.

• Explore attending one of our globally renowned courses. You can download a short Explainer at the bottom of this webpage.

Highly effective Professional Development for Subject Matter Experts

Expertship programs are a transformative new approach to the development of tech, financial, engineering, scientific, legal, actuarial, manufacturing and other experts. With unique content for SMEs designed by experts for experts, Expertship programs enable organisations to give their technical stars the opportunity to fulfil their potential, and add enormous additional value to their organisations.

These programs are not about increasing technical skills - most experts manage that on their own. This is about building the enterprise skills that experts need, enabling them to create the value and impact they have the potential and aspiration to, using advanced influencing and collaboration skills.

The Expertship Institute is the global leader in providing Expertship programs. These programs are delivered via our partner organisations worldwide.

Expertship initiatives provide critical support and development to high-value technical experts like you that your organisation needs to retain and grow. And get more value from.