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About the Course

This course will improve your ability to influence people in situations where you cannot use formal authority. You will learn about effective ways to build, develop, and sustain a power base in your organization. You will also learn influence tactics that enable you to be more persuasive and influential in working with your superiors, peers, and even subordinates. In addition, you will learn how to build and maintain high-quality relationships to further maximize your informal power and ability to influence others. Importantly, you will distinguish between influence and manipulation and learn how to protect yourself from the unwanted influence of others. The influence strategies you learn in this course will make you a more confident and influential leader, presenter, and decision-maker. You will more effective in pitching business ideas to your superiors, influencing customers, and building coalitions across stakeholders. This course will not only give you strategic guidance on how to develop and maintain your network for influence and power, but we will also equip you with specific tactics and strategies that are proven to work for gaining power and influencing people....

Top reviews

JG

Apr 30, 2026

Excellent course with easy to follow structure combining practical assignments. The professors' explanations are extremely easy to understand and based on real life situations. Highly recommended.

VG

Jan 23, 2016

extremely useful course to understand tactics of influencing others and protect yourself from an unwanted influence of others. Applicable in business, work as well as day-to day life.

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Sep 3, 2016

Practical and interesting!

By Lisa S

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Feb 22, 2016

Yet one more great course!

By ddd

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Dec 25, 2015

it's a very useful course!

By Jolene S

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Jul 1, 2016

Sorry I missed the class.

By Heather H

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May 26, 2016

Extremely useful content.

By Monique R

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Dec 9, 2015

loved it! I learned alot!

By HASRUL S B M S

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Apr 17, 2020

Good for motivated staff

By Victor L

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Jan 8, 2020

Very interesting course.

By Modestman

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Jun 30, 2017

Thank you for your help.

By Patricia A B

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Mar 13, 2017

Really well done course.

By Priya D

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Dec 24, 2015

One of the best courses.

By Tulsidai R

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Nov 6, 2020

very informative course

By Milovan

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Jun 21, 2019

Excellent course! Thank

By Emily C

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Jan 2, 2016

enjoying the break down

By Felipe V B C

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Dec 18, 2015

the lessons are awesome

By Nazmul A J

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Dec 7, 2020

I learn good knowledge

By Dean P

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Oct 3, 2018

Top work! Thanks guys!

By Winston A W

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Sep 12, 2020

Excellent, thank you.

By 姚蕴珊

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Nov 14, 2016

very good and useful.

By Murad R

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Feb 27, 2016

Very interesting ! -)

By Kiran V

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Nov 25, 2020

Excellent Experience

By Satyanarayana S

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Sep 24, 2020

Its very good course

By Maria H

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Mar 15, 2018

Outstanding course!!

By Sathiya R

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Jan 17, 2018

Thank you very much.

By VINCENZO R

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Feb 9, 2016

very helpful indeed!