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Influencing Skills Workshop

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Overcome personal barriers to effectively influencing others.

Today’s organizational environments require you to get results through working effectively with others. Exceptional influencing skills enable you to do this successfully regardless of your positional power.

In this influencing skills workshop, you will gain insights into the nature of influence and your own influence style that will equip you with the knowledge you need to build credibility with others – no matter what level of the organization you are dealing with. You’ll learn to craft compelling messages that will allow you to connect emotionally to your stakeholders and enable you to negotiate with greater success.

How You Will Benefit

  • Apply influence models to help you develop effective influence strategies
  • Understand the person you are trying to influence and what may be driving their needs
  • Build your personal credibility as it relates to your individual influence challenges
  • Employ effective questioning techniques to persuade others to your point of view
  • Craft compelling messages that inspire, influence, persuade and motivate
  • Understand the impact of communication styles
  • Realize the relationship between credibility and influence
  • Gain insights into overcoming influence challenges through collaborative exercises
  • Identify opportunities to build stronger relationships
  • Build trust between you and your colleagues

Course Features

  • Opportunities to immediately apply tools to your real-life challenges
  • Worksheets and job aids to help you transfer your new skills back in your work environment
  • A powerful self assessment that will provide insight into how you work with others
  • Scenario-based activities to practice new skills and receive immediate feedback

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Who Should Attend

Managers, supervisors, team leaders, project managers and business professionals who need to achieve results with and through others.

 

$995 Non Member Fee
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$995 Non Member Fee
$895 Member Fee
View our pricing options
  • Date
    Location
    Time

Do you need a different date or location? We offer Courses On Request.

When colleagues learn together, everyone benefits!

Connect with an advisor to discuss delivering this course to your team.

Frequently Asked Questions

 I need buy-in from people who do not report to me. Is this influencing skills workshop right for me?

Yes. This influencing skills workshop is built for professionals who need to move ideas, decisions, or work forward through peers, leaders, clients, or cross-functional partners. If your success depends on gaining support rather than giving direction, this course is a strong fit.

 My ideas are solid, but they still stall. Will this influencing skills course help?

Yes. This influencing skills course addresses the gap between having a good idea and getting other people to act on it. It helps you make your message more credible, more relevant to your audience, and more likely to gain traction.

 I keep explaining my idea, but I am still not getting movement. What am I missing?

What’s often missing is not effort, it’s alignment. When an idea keeps stalling, the issue is usually not that you have not explained it enough. It is that the other person does not yet see why it matters, why it makes sense for them, or why they should act on it now. This influencing skills workshop helps you look past your own message and think more strategically about credibility, audience priorities, and how to shape your approach so it creates traction, not just understanding.

 I want to be more persuasive, but I do not want to come across as pushy. Is this influencing skills workshop the right course?

Yes. This influencing skills workshop is about influence with judgment. It focuses on credibility, trust, audience awareness, and asking better questions so your message carries more weight without sounding forced.

 Is this the best influencing skills course if I need to influence across teams and levels?

es, when the issue is buy-in on a specific idea, request, or decision, this influencing skills workshop is the right fit. If your challenge is broader and tied to getting results across ongoing relationships without formal authority, Getting Results Without Authority is the better fit. If the real issue is tension, defensiveness, or a conversation that is already off track, Conflict Management Workshop is the better starting point.

 We have strong people, but good ideas still stall when they need buy-in from other teams or leaders. What is usually missing?

What is usually missing is not capability. It is influence. In many organizations, employees know their work and have sound ideas, but they struggle to build enough credibility, trust, and audience alignment to move those ideas forward. This influencing skills workshop helps strengthen that part of the equation, so they are better able to gain support, adapt their approach, and create traction beyond their own team.

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    Great course!

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    Course was great

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  • Luc L., Special Advisor Nov 13, 2024

    I thought the course was great, the material, the theory, the practice all went well together.

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