Ready to take your influence skills to the next level?

Advanced Influence Without Authority builds on the success created in our Influence Without Authority class.

The original Influence Without Authority class focuses on the skills needed to get others to do what you want. This advanced class focuses on the process you use to navigate your ideas through the minefield defined by your own organizational dynamics. The course starts by getting you to identify some of the biggest barriers to getting your ideas accepted and successfully implemented on-the-job, your own personal “but” box.

Joe Friedman highlights the ojectives of Advanced Influence Without Authority in this short video clip.

Program Objective:

Influence Without Authority—Advanced is a two-day workshop that focuses on the following: The strategic and practical application of a process that dramatically increases the probability of success of your ideas, projects and initiatives.

In support of this goal, participants will:

Recognize your own internal barriers that prevent sustained intentional action

Leverage key influencing and persuading concepts to increase buy in and overcome resistance

Recognize and constructively respond to differing communication styles

Create an influencing action plan to navigate your team, company’s and individual member’s unique blend of Culture, Politics, Biases, Styles, and Agendas

Understand five common reasons teams fail, causing bright and talented people to become dysfunctional, then crafting a plan to avoid these dysfunctions and build more cohesive teams

Recognize the opportunity to influence by managing conflict constructively with eye toward better relationships and improved outcomes

This two-day seminar is highly interactive and workshop driven. Class discussions draw out and build upon the experience of the participants. All participants take part in one-on-one role plays, complete two personal assessments, and engage in several small group exercises. At the beginning of day-one, each participant picks real work situations where they want to exert more influence and culminates in the development of an Organizational Dynamics Strategy Plan for that event.

In this class, the outcome is to create a process necessary to navigate the people and politics in their organization.

Audience:

Influence Without Authority—Advanced is appropriate for all employees who regularly influence and persuade others in order to meet their objectives, both internally and externally, in a range of settings.
This class can be held as a “stand alone” class or a follow-up class after the Influence Without Authority class.