Become An Influencer: Tactics And Strategies

Course overview

Do you think it’s critical for humans to be able to persuade those around them to do their tasks? Do you think you can reach the highest level of success if you can influence your peers, superiors, stakeholders, and team members?

To effectively influence others, you must take deliberate steps that inspire the experts in your immediate vicinity to do the desired action. To refine these abilities, it’s critical to comprehend your own identity and how other people perceive you.

Furthermore, you ought to be able to modify your persuading approach to suit other people’s mentalities. It facilitates the development of a trusting and understanding professional atmosphere. You will have a better knowledge of what you need to improve on in order to assure positive outcomes with your influence-producing abilities after taking this course.

With the help of Training Bee’ Influencing Skills course, you will get the ability to increase both your personal and company productivity. This can also assist you in resolving any obstacles you may have when finishing a job or accomplishing your goals.

Introduction

Welcome to the curriculum for Influencing Skills Training! The goal of this program is to provide you the fundamental knowledge and abilities to successfully negotiate the art of influence in both your personal and professional lives.

Influence is a very potent weapon that molds our relationships, decisions, and encounters. The complexity of influence will be covered in detail in this training session, along with a variety of methods and approaches to help you communicate more effectively and persuasively.

Training in persuasive skills is a calculated and useful way to improve one’s capacity to influence and convince people. It is intended to improve leadership, negotiating, and communication skills so that people can accomplish their goals more successfully. Typically, the training covers a range of strategies, such as recognizing and addressing diverse communication styles, establishing rapport, using persuasive language, active listening, and dispute resolution. It is frequently used in a variety of contexts, including business, sales, interpersonal relationships, and leadership positions. The ultimate goal of training in influencing skills is to enable people to influence and negotiate intricate social and professional relationships with grace and integrity.

We are The Training Bee, a global training and education firm providing services in many countries. We are specialized in capacity building and talent development solutions for individuals and organizations, with our highly customized programs and training sessions.

Learning Objectives

Upon completing Influencing Skills Training, participants will be able to:

• Recognize your influence style and how people perceive it.
• While adhering to your value systems, modify your vocal and nonverbal communication to fit the changing circumstances.
• Determine the influence style that will operate best in a certain situation and make your choice based on that.
• While selecting a strategy, consider the requirements of those in your immediate vicinity.
• Establishing a trustworthy foundation with all
• Make use of your persuasive abilities throughout the organization.

Our Unique Training Methodology

This interactive course comprises the following training methods:

• Journaling – This consists of setting a timer and letting your thoughts flow, unedited and unscripted recording events, ideas, and thoughts over a while, related to the topic.
• Social learning – Information and expertise exchanged amongst peers via computer-based technologies and interactive conversations including Blogging, instant messaging, and forums for debate in groups.
• Project-based learning
• Mind mapping and brainstorming – A session will be carried out between participants to uncover unique ideas, thoughts, and opinions having a quality discussion.
• Interactive sessions – The course will use informative lectures to introduce key concepts and theories related to the topic.
• Presentations – Participants will be presented with multimedia tools such as videos and graphics to enhance learning. These will be delivered engagingly and interactively.

Training Medium

This Influencing Skills Training is designed in a way that it can be delivered face-to-face and virtually.

Course Duration

This training is versatile in its delivery. The training can be delivered as a full-fledged 40-hour training program or a 15- hours crash course covering 5 hours of content each day over 3 days

Pre-course Assessment

Before you enroll in this course all we wanted to know is your exact mindset and your way of thinking.
For that, we have designed this questionnaire attached below.

• What are the main obstacles you encounter when trying to persuade others?
• Could you give an example of a situation where you found it difficult to affect a choice or change?
• Regarding the ability to influence people, how would you rank your communication and attentive listening skills?
• Which communication strategies do you find most effective when attempting to influence or persuade someone?
• To what extent do you feel at ease modifying your style of influence to suit other personalities or circumstances?
• Has it been difficult for you to modify your strategy to exert influence in different situations?

Course Modules

This Influencing Skills Training covers the following topics for understanding the essentials of the Agile Workplace:

Module 1 – INTRODUCTION

• Recognizing how you influence other people
• What are the techniques and skills of influence?
• Fundamentals of Persuasion
• Important elements influencing
• The distinction between influence, manipulation, politics, and power

Module 2 – GETTING SET TO IMPACT

• Become successful in overcoming obstacles in personal impacting
• Recognizing the various personality types
• Responses to Influence, Manipulation, and Power
• Persuasion without Possession
• Influencing Others through Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

Module 3 – OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES

• Achieving the desired result without using force
• Handling Opposition
• Avert Persuading Traps
• Methods for exerting influence
• Determining Your Approach to Influence
• Increasing influencing power through the use of storytelling

Module 4 – Creating a Relationship of Trust

• Methods for connecting with people and developing trust in groups or individually.
• Realizing the impact that authenticity and integrity have on influence.

Module 5 – Changing to Fit Various Personas and Circumstances

• Techniques for adjusting influence strategies to fit various personality types and contexts.
• Modifying communication strategies to more effectively connect with a range of audiences.

Module 6 – Conflict resolution and negotiation

• Recognizing influence’s function in discussions and dispute settlement.
• Methods for using successful persuasion to resolve disputes and arrive at win-win solutions.

Module 7 – Overcoming Objections and Resistance

• Techniques for addressing criticism and overcoming opposition when attempting to persuade others.
• Addressing skepticism and using it as a chance to convince.

Module 8 – Ethics Play a Role in Influence

• Investigating the moral bounds of influence and comprehending the appropriate application of persuasion methods.
• Identifying and resolving moral conundrums in the workplace.

Post-course Assessment

Participants need to complete an assessment post-course completion so our mentors will get to know their understanding of the course. A mentor will also have interrogative conversations with participants and provide valuable feedback.

• How have you modified your influence style following the training to better suit various personalities or circumstances?
• Have there been situations after training where this flexibility has proven useful?
• Can you name any particular aims or targets that, after training, you were able to accomplish with improved influencing skills?
• How do you intend to apply these abilities to achieve upcoming objectives or projects?
• What practical applications of the training principles have you made in your personal or professional life?

Lessons Learned

Participants frequently gain an understanding of the importance of communicating with clarity and precision. One essential lesson is realizing the importance of messaging that is customized for various audiences.

Flexibility and Adaptability: It’s critical to approach influence with both flexibility and adaptability. It’s common for participants to discover how crucial it is to modify their tactics to fit various personalities and circumstances.

Empathy and Active Listening: Understanding the role that empathy and active listening play in persuasion. Convincing arguments requires an understanding of the other person’s viewpoint.

Ethical Aspects: Typically, participants receive instruction on moral issues and appropriate influence management. Understanding the moral limits of persuasion becomes an important lesson.

Overcoming Resistance: One of the most important skills knows how to deal with resistance and objections. It is common for participants to discover that resistance is a normal aspect of the influencing process and may be handled skillfully.

Developing rapport and Trust: Successful influence requires developing rapport and trust. Frequently, participants pick up skills to improve their interactions’ credibility and level of trust.

Flexibility in Persuasion Methods: Realizing that a variety of persuasion methods are necessary and that certain circumstances may necessitate the use of alternative strategies.

Effective Negotiation: One important lesson learnt is the capacity to use persuasive techniques to settle disputes and bargain effectively.