Influence & Persuasion

  • 5 Courses | 1h 46m 5s
  • 9 Books | 20h 17m
  • 10 Audiobooks | 37h 49m 4s
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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.

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Influencing without Authority

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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.
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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 has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
Personal Power and Credibility
Authority carries a certain positional power. A title grants a person some power and authority, but even that has its limits. To meet goals and get results requires developing a sense of personal power that goes beyond the job description and that print on the business card. Personal power stems from personal credibility, influence, and political savvy. Even those with the most humble job titles can know how to get things done. In this course, you'll learn how developing personal power and credibility, and using them for building trust with your coworkers and organization, allows you to increase your influence at work and reach your goals.
7 videos | 12m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
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 has Assessment available Badge Certification 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 has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
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BOOKS INCLUDED

Book

Lead & Influence: Get More Ownership, Commitment, and Achievement from Your Team
Explaining 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.
book Duration 2h 5m book Authors By Mark Fritz

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Work with Me: How to Get People to Buy into Your Ideas
Showing 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.
book Duration 2h 26m book Authors By Simon Dowling

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Persuasion Equation: The Subtle Science of Getting Your Way
From 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.
book Duration 3h 24m book Authors By Mark Rodgers

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7 Secrets of Persuasion: Leading-Edge Neuromarketing Techniques to Influence Anyone
Whether 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.
book Duration 3h 14m book Authors By James C. Crimmins

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Quiet Influence: The Introvert's Guide to Making a Difference
Identifying 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.
book Duration 2h 39m book Authors By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler

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Persuade: Using the Seven Drivers of Motivation to Master Influence and Persuasion
Based 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.
book Duration 1h 51m book Authors By Philip Hesketh

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Artful Persuasion: How to Command Attention, Change Minds, and Influence People
Whether 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.
book Duration 4h 23m book Authors By Harry Mills

BOOK SUMMARY

Persuade: The 4-Step Process to Influence People and Decisions
In 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.
book Duration 8m book Authors By Andres Lares, Jeff Cochran, Shaun Digan

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Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen
In 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.
book Duration 7m book Authors 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 You
Top 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.
audiobook Duration 17m 28s audiobook Authors By John Hall

AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY

Power, Influence, and Persuasion: Sell Your Ideas and Make Things Happen
Power, 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.
audiobook Duration 12m 55s audiobook Authors By Richard Luecke

Audiobook

Silent Persuasion: Powerful Influence Techniques of Body Language and Non-Verbal Communication
This 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.
audiobook Duration 3h 20m 14s audiobook Authors By Dawn Jones, Larry Iverson

Audiobook

The Gentle Art of Persuasion
This 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.
audiobook Duration 4h 12m 29s audiobook Authors By Tom Hopkins

Audiobook

Persuasion Equation: The Subtle Science of Getting Your Way
This audio edition reveals what really drives decisions and introduces readers to the persuasion equation - a powerful combination of factors proven to speed agreement.
audiobook Duration 7h 11m 3s audiobook Authors By Mark Rodgers

Audiobook

Quiet Influence: The Introvert's Guide to Making a Difference
This 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.
audiobook Duration 4h 44m 10s audiobook Authors By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler

Audiobook

Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything - FAST
This audio edition shows you how to motivate others to make changes both great and small in seven minutes or less.
audiobook Duration 6h 57m 44s audiobook Authors By Michael Pantalon

Audiobook

How to Change Minds: The Art of Influence without Manipulation
This 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.
audiobook Duration 4h 51m 4s audiobook Authors By Rob Jolles

Audiobook

The Art of People: 11 Simple People Skills That Will Get You Everything You Want
This 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.
audiobook Duration 5h 46m 35s audiobook Authors By Dave Kerpen

AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY

Persuade: The 4-Step Process to Influence People and Decisions
In 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.
audiobook Duration 15m 22s audiobook Authors 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.
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