INFLUENCING SKILLS TRAINING

The first session of the course gives you a strong understanding of the basics, and a framework to build on.

• What is influencing and what different types of influencing are there?
• Understanding what motivates and galvanises people into action.
• Building and maintaining relationships and a network.
• Navigating company and team politics.

This training session focuses on practical communication skills you can use to become more persuasive, and gives you time to practice them. 

• Communicating expectations clearly and active listening.
• Gaining and building trust and respect.
• Making a valued contribution and building a personal brand.
• Having confidence in your own ability and knowledge.
• Listening skills.

The final session of this training course is when you will prepare your personal action plan.

In conjunction with the trainer, you will work through exactly what you will differently on your return to work.

This means that you will have a personalised step-by-step influencing action plan to consult in the future if you are struggling.

Our influencing course teaches fundamental influencing skills and frameworks.

These are the essential tools that persuasive people use day in and day out. These tried and tested tools do not change – people are still people whatever is happening.

The best way to implement these tools in your exact day-to-day work will vary according to the situation.

This is what we work through with you during the Personal Action Plan section of the day. This is time on the course set aside to reflect on and discuss how the principles that you have learned during the day can be implemented in your exact situation. This is how we make sure that everyone leaves us with a clear personalised plan of action.

We limit the number of people in our workshops to 5.

We pride ourselves on ensuring that everyone gets plenty of one-to-one attention and time to ask questions and feel that limiting numbers is the only way to guarantee this to everyone who attends one of our influencing skills courses.

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Influencing skills allow you to persuade people towards your way of thinking on a specific topic.

Being able to persuade and make the case for an idea of yours is a key aspect of everyone’s development. Being able to influence others will allow you to sell your ideas and build teams.

This influencing skills course will give you the key influencing skills and frameworks to allow you to develop this skill.

Influencing skills can not be measured objectively, although a number of researchers have tried.

However, if you often find that you struggle to get people to ‘come along with you’ of their own free will then you may want to look at your influencing style and skills and consider an influencing skills training course.

There are lots of good strategies you can use to influence others.

Three areas that are fundamental to good influencing and so you need to work on are:

1. Confidence. It is impossible for others to have confidence in you if you don’t have confidence in yourself. If you struggle with confidence you will need to look at this if you are to become a strong influencer.
2. Trust. If you are not trusted by colleagues you will find it difficult to influence others. Ensuring that you are widely seen as trustworthy and fair will help you to influence others.
3. Listening. Others are far more likely to follow you ideas if they feel that their ideas and input have been heard. Becoming a good active listener is an effective way to influence others.