Soft and Business Acumen Skills 3 – Movers & Shakers

Explore the ultimate influencing and persuading skills for Leaders

What will I learn?

Influencing and persuading skills are the foundation of successful leadership. Honing these soft skills means understanding how and when to use influencing and persuading authentically.

When you prepare and leverage professional story-telling constructs and use selective communicational tools, you will build a reputation as a strong communicator and carve-out success using your communication skills.

Lesson plan

  • Introduction
  • Definitions
  • Authentic Mind-changing
  • The Methods
  • Barriers & Challenges
  • End Note
Number of lessons
4
Duration
Approx : 4 hours
Category
Thinking skills
Certificate issued
Yes

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Masterclass overview

What is influencing and persuading all about?

Persuasion and influence can be very powerful. Honing this skill is imperative to both getting the career you want and progressing. Influencing and persuading is a robust mix on how to get your point across to give you authentic power.

Why are the practical applications of influencing and persuading important?

You will unearth how to apply convincing concepts that mean that you can make a persuasive presentation and discover how to prepare and leverage professional story-telling constructs, which influence others.

What will you achieve at the end of this Masterclass?

Everyday we are influencing and persuading others, sometimes without thinking about it. You will explore how to manage your communication skills to influence and persuade with purpose. 

You will learn how to apply key constructs for a practical setting.Everything from how to manage conversations to using story telling techniques to avoiding manipulation. 

Levering key tools will mean you can strategically influence and persuade to enhance your career success whilst addressing the challenges of bias.

How will you measure success?

  • Fine-tune your communication skills to enhance your influence.
  • Apply the concept of building rapport when persuading others.
  • Use different techniques to get persuasive conversations underway with confidence.
  • Appreciate the logic of how to structure arguments.
  • Asking salient questions, building rapport and common ground to persuade at any level.
  • Make decisions about using persuasion versus manipulation.
  • Leverage storytelling techniques to build strategies that extend influence.
  • Apply the theories on bias to minimise their effect.

Who benefits from this Masterclass?

We designed this masterclass for anyone keen on improving their communication style through improving their influencing and persuading skills. You may be a school-leaver, apprentice, student, graduate, in a job or looking for a job  that would advance from enhanced influence and persuasive communication or an entrepreneur who wishes to strategically managing communication.

How will you manage your motivation?

You study at your convenience at your own pace. As you move through the class lessons, be inspired to complete each lesson by monitoring the progress tracker to oversee your class achievement. 

Your e-workbook includes all assignments, information, instructions, tasks and further reading contained in one place. Plus with each lesson being a video, you get to study in an easy and consistent manner. Complete your study of the class material to obtain your certificate.

You decide on the best learning approach which works for you. Select from On-Demand or Live Tutor.

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