Influence & Persuasion
- 6 Courses | 3h 27m 55s
- 9 Books | 20h 19m
- 10 Audiobooks | 37h 49m 4s
To drive your ideas forward, you need to positively influence and persuade decision makers. Improve your political savvy to maximize impact. An organization's social and political landscape can provide opportunities for positive leadership, influencing others in order to accomplish your team and your company goals. Discover methods and strategies for effectively influencing a team to accept your ideas. Learn the importance of political awareness and the essential skills involved in utilizing positive influence, while avoiding the negative, when persuading others.
COURSES INCLUDED
Influencing without Authority
Mastering the art of influencing without authority is crucial and is essential to success. With a growing demand for adept influencers capable of navigating diverse challenges, each individual within an organization must develop essential skills to inspire, build trust, and drive positive change. These skills help gain buy-in from key stakeholders, improve collaboration, and achieve collective goals, leaving a lasting impact on professional growth. In this course, you'll learn to identify essential characteristics for successfully influencing others without formal authority, the steps for using persuasion skills to gain support and cooperation without authority, how to leverage different types of personal power to effectively influence the behavior of others, and effective strategies for influencing without authority in challenging situations.
6 videos |
27m
Assessment
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Influencing through Positive Leadership
An organization's social and political landscape can provide opportunities for positive leadership, influencing others in order to accomplish team and company goals. In this course, you will discover methods and strategies for effectively influencing a team to accept your ideas. You'll be introduced to the importance of political awareness and the essential skills involved in utilizing positive influence, while avoiding the negative, when persuading others. You'll also have an opportunity to practice methods for influencing effectively and ethically.
7 videos |
25m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Leadercamp on-demand: Mastering Influence
Professionals recognize the crucial importance of communication, influence, and persuasion. They serve as the key for overcoming challenges and achieving success. The capacity to convey your value, articulate your ideas, sway stakeholders, and captivate audiences are pivotal components of effective communication. In this Leadercamp, executive leadership and speaker coach Alycia Setlin, ACC BCC, provides a comprehensive toolkit of techniques and strategies to overcome obstacles and thrive when communicating, presenting, and persuading.
1 video |
56m
Assessment
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Leadercamp on-demand: Communicate To Influence
We live in a global world with diverse personalities and need to work together to get results. But when we all think and work differently, it can cause frustration. Recognizing our differences can reduce friction and increase interpersonal effectiveness. It starts with you! Understanding how you prefer to communicate impacts how you lead, solve problems, make decisions, form relationships, collaborate, provide feedback, motivate and of course, influence. Learn the different communication styles and how to flex your style to increase collaboration, influence and strengthen relationships. In the second installment of the four-part Connected Leadership series, Michelle Tillis Lederman, an executive coach, people expert, and CEO, will explore how different communication styles can enhance relationship building and collaboration, ultimately increasing your effectiveness as a leader. By developing your communication skills and becoming a Connected Leader, you will be able to expand your influence, build loyalty, and advance your role within your organization.
1 video |
57m
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Building Personal Power through Influence
Getting things done in the business world requires more than simply issuing orders. And most of us don't have the titles or authority to issue them in the first place. Along with being credible and building trust, you get results without direct authority by using persuasion and influence. Effective persuasion methods and influencing skills are the difference makers for getting results, with or without positional authority. This course will help you engage and enlist others in getting things done without the resort of formal power. It explores persuasion techniques and ways to promote influence through effective communication, reciprocity, the exchange of professional 'currencies', and persevering through resistance.
9 videos |
19m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Gaining Insight through Organizational Awareness
The best leaders have a clear picture of their organizations' people and systems, and what drives them in their chosen career. Effective leaders are also aware of each employee's career plan, their motivations, how they interact with one another, as well as the power dynamics between staff members. In this course, you'll learn about organizational awareness and how it relates to career management. You'll also explore how you can develop organizational awareness when managing your career to advance your professional goals.
6 videos |
20m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
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Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.BOOKS INCLUDED
Book
Lead & Influence: Get More Ownership, Commitment, and Achievement from Your TeamExplaining how to use the power of ownership to become even more successful in leading your organization, this book will show you how to empower your employees to own achievement, no matter the distance between you and them.
2h 5m
By Mark Fritz
Book
Work with Me: How to Get People to Buy into Your IdeasShowing you how to master the art of the buy-in, this book explains that you achieve better results when people go along with your ideas because they want to, not because they have to; the key is knowing how to build that kind of commitment.
2h 26m
By Simon Dowling
Book
Persuasion Equation: The Subtle Science of Getting Your WayFrom crafting compelling emails to convincing a colleague to nailing the big presentation, this insightful guide reveals what really drives decisions and introduces readers to the persuasion equation - a powerful combination of factors proven to speed agreement.
3h 24m
By Mark Rodgers
Book
7 Secrets of Persuasion: Leading-Edge Neuromarketing Techniques to Influence AnyoneWhether your goal is to persuade one person-a husband, child, or boss-or the millions who might purchase an Apple Watch or a Budweiser, this book directly translates the revolution in neuroscience into practical new techniques for effective persuasion.
3h 16m
By James C. Crimmins
Book
Quiet Influence: The Introvert's Guide to Making a DifferenceIdentifying six unique strengths that can make introverts powerful influencers, this book shows how you can use those strengths to challenge the status quo, provoke new ways of thinking, effect change, and inspire others to move forward.
2h 39m
By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
Book
Persuade: Using the Seven Drivers of Motivation to Master Influence and PersuasionBased on sound psychological principles and grounded in science, this humorous and accessible book helps you to get inside the heads of decision makers and uncover exactly what's going on, so you can get what you want, time and time again.
1h 51m
By Philip Hesketh
Book
Artful Persuasion: How to Command Attention, Change Minds, and Influence PeopleWhether you're a lawyer trying to persuade a jury, an employee fighting for a pay increase, or a general speaker attempting to gain the attention of an audience, this amusing book will show you how to influence just about anyone.
4h 23m
By Harry Mills
BOOK SUMMARY
Persuade: The 4-Step Process to Influence People and DecisionsIn Persuade, the authors share an array of tried-and-tested strategies for readers to learn how to influence others, ultimately becoming more assertive at work, getting their needs met at home, and prospering in life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
8m
By Andres Lares, Jeff Cochran, Shaun Digan
BOOK SUMMARY
Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things HappenIn Influence is Your Superpower, author Zoe Chance explores the art and science of influence, presenting an ethical and empathetic discussion on how to use persuasion in a way that's both effective and respectful. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Zoe Chance
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Top of Mind: Use Content to Unleash Your Influence and Engage Those Who Matter to YouTop of Mind examines how you can use content to attract the attention and interest of potential clients and customers with the aim of having them think of you first when they consider their choices. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
17m 28s
By John Hall
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Power, Influence, and Persuasion: Sell Your Ideas and Make Things HappenPower, Influence, and Persuasion dives into the practices and strategies you need to have a voice in the workplace that will take you places. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
12m 55s
By Richard Luecke
Audiobook
Silent Persuasion: Powerful Influence Techniques of Body Language and Non-Verbal CommunicationThis audio edition will show you how to actually persuade others to take your position. How? Learn to evaluate your "look" for the impression it creates on others. Read by the authors.
3h 20m 14s
By Dawn Jones, Larry Iverson
Audiobook
The Gentle Art of PersuasionThis audio edition will help you learn the basic persuasion skills needed to help others achieve more in their lives, sell your values to your children, and move products. Read by the author.
4h 12m 29s
By Tom Hopkins
Audiobook
Persuasion Equation: The Subtle Science of Getting Your WayThis audio edition reveals what really drives decisions and introduces readers to the persuasion equation - a powerful combination of factors proven to speed agreement.
7h 11m 3s
By Mark Rodgers
Audiobook
Quiet Influence: The Introvert's Guide to Making a DifferenceThis audio edition identifies six unique strengths that can make introverts powerful influencers, and shows how you can use those strengths to challenge the status quo, provoke new ways of thinking, effect change, and inspire others to move forward.
4h 44m 10s
By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
Audiobook
Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything - FASTThis audio edition shows you how to motivate others to make changes both great and small in seven minutes or less.
6h 57m 44s
By Michael Pantalon
Audiobook
How to Change Minds: The Art of Influence without ManipulationThis audio edition lays out a simple, repeatable, predictable, and ethical process that will enable you to lead others to discover for themselves what and why they need to change. Read by the author.
4h 51m 4s
By Rob Jolles
Audiobook
The Art of People: 11 Simple People Skills That Will Get You Everything You WantThis audio edition will teach you how to master the 11 people skills that will get you more of what you want at work, at home, and in life. Read by the author.
5h 46m 35s
By Dave Kerpen
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Persuade: The 4-Step Process to Influence People and DecisionsIn Persuade, the authors share an array of tried-and-tested strategies for readers to learn how to influence others, ultimately becoming more assertive at work, getting their needs met at home, and prospering in life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
15m 22s
By Andres Lares, Jeff Cochran, Shaun Digan
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Influence & Persuasion
To drive your ideas forward, you need to positively influence and persuade decision makers. Improve your political savvy to maximize impact. An organization's social and political landscape can provide opportunities for positive leadership, influencing others in order to accomplish your team and your company goals. Discover methods and strategies for effectively influencing a team to accept your ideas and increasing your negotiation skills. Learn the importance of political awareness and the essential skills involved in utilizing positive influence, while avoiding the negative, when persuading others. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
8m
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