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Influence Skills:
Getting Results without Direct Authority


Course: 2944 dagar

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Quick Enrol

You Will Learn How To

  • Apply influence strategies to gain commitment from others and foster collaboration
  • Define desired outcomes for win-win results
  • Dynamically adjust your approach to others to gain buy-in
  • Achieve goals by enhancing trust and cooperation
  • Deal effectively with challenging behaviours to overcome resistance and inertia in others
  • Use knowledge and competence rather than position and status to influence others

Course Benefits

Professionals are often faced with the responsibility of completing a project without having the necessary authority or resources to meet the challenge. Harnessing the skills to effectively influence others can be the difference between success and failure. In this course, through practice sessions, video simulations, self-assessments and role-playing activities, you acquire the specific skills, behaviours and attitudes necessary to achieve desired results without relying on the use of authority.

Who Should Attend

Managers, project managers and individual contributors who rely on influence rather than authority to achieve their goals.

RealityPlus™

An ongoing simulation throughout this course offers media-rich experiential activities that allow you to practise a variety of influence skills, tools and strategies. Activities include:
  • Uncovering your leadership capabilities
  • Assessing your use of influence strategies
  • Dealing effectively with resistance
  • Identifying different applications of power and typical outcomes through video simulations
  • Applying leadership and influence skills in a group setting
  • Assessing your political know-how
  • Using win-win approaches to persuade others to act
  • Building trusting relationships and rapport
  • Listening for multiple points of view
  • Getting commitment in challenging situations

Course Content

Defining Influence

  • Identifying the three critical elements
  • Building value with others
  • Working with resistance for positive outcomes

The Elements of Influence

Five critical factors for influencing others

  • Applying the five factors: capability, perceived value, perceived value realisation, perceived cost, perceived risk
  • Using an influence formula to guide your planning

Achieving and maintaining commitment

  • Stating your desired results
  • Going beyond compliance
  • Creating collaboration

Recognising manipulation and taking positive action

  • Differentiating manipulation from influence
  • Gaining an agreement you can count on

Building Your Foundation

Establishing and maintaining trust

  • Creating trust-based relationships
  • Maintaining ethics and integrity

Developing rapport

  • Establishing immediate rapport
  • Applying techniques for building rapport

Listening for multiple perspectives

  • Building active-listening habits
  • Tuning in rather than tuning out

Applying Six Major Influence Strategies

Identifying strengths and limitations

  • Leveraging the advantages of each strategy
  • Creating your personal plan
  • Building and expanding your network
  • Negotiating for desired results

Optimising your personal preference

  • Developing your most appropriate strategy
  • Avoiding pitfalls and traps

Expanding Your Power Base

The six types of power

  • Referent
  • Information
  • Expert
  • Legitimate
  • Reward
  • Coercive
  • Extending your personal power

Developing political know-how

  • Navigating organisational politics
  • Strengthening working relationships
  • Adapting the way politics work according to cultural norms
  • Identifying and applying political strategies effectively

Working with multiple perspectives

  • Transforming resistance and inertia in others
  • Adapting flexibly to influencing situations

Practising Exemplary Leadership

Implementing five leadership practices

  • Modelling the way
  • Inspiring a shared vision
  • Challenging the process
  • Enabling others to act
  • Encouraging the heart
  • Adapting leadership approaches to your situation

Developing your personal leadership plan

  • Assessing your leadership profile
  • Strategies for cultivating your leadership skills
  • Influencing a paradigm shift in others

Dealing with Challenging Behaviours

Recognising the interplay of perceptions

  • Managing the six challenging behaviours: always agreeable, cynic, arrogant, whiner, wishy-washy, pushy
  • Overcoming the tendency to take things personally

Taking powerful actions

  • Identifying and applying deflection techniques
  • Developing remedies for difficult situations
  • Employing specific strategies for challenging behaviours
  • Converting confrontation into cooperation

Overcoming Resistance

  • Recognising the many forms of resistance
  • Applying the four-step model for agreement
  • Achieving results in real-world situations

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Influence Skills

Course Dates

Live online classroom training.Most events below can be taken in-class or live, online from your home or office with AnyWare.
12 - 15 JunStockholm enrol
21 - 24 AugStockholm enrol
16 - 19 OctStockholm enrol
11 - 14 DecStockholm enrol

UK Dates

10 - 13 JulLondon enrol
10 - 13 JulLondon enrol
16 - 19 OctLondon enrol
11 - 14 DecLondon enrol
12 - 15 MarLondon enrol

US Dates

29 May - 1 JunNew York enrol
7 - 10 AugWashington, DC enrol
21 - 24 AugNew York enrol
4 - 7 SepWashington, DC enrol
13 - 16 NovNew York enrol
4 - 7 DecWashington, DC enrol

For AnyWare enrollments, please register at least 7 days prior to the start of the course.

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