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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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Apr 17, 2025

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Sep 24, 2024

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May 16, 2024

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Aug 7, 2022

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Jun 7, 2022

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Nov 11, 2021

VERY GOOD

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Aug 17, 2021

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Apr 26, 2021

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Dec 25, 2020

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Aug 14, 2025

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May 17, 2025

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Jun 18, 2023

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May 21, 2022

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