Build Your Influence

About this course

Building your influence in the workplace requires mastering two critical skills: leveraging your networks and persuading others. In this course, you'll identify how to create an effective network by improving your interpersonal skills, accessing new information, and connecting with important organizational stakeholders. You'll also determine how to boost your ability to persuade effectively and gain others' buy-in, helping you build credibility, earn trust, and increase your influence.

What you will learn

• Create, assess, and strengthen your network while initiating and developing reciprocal relationships
• Leverage your networks to achieve personal, team, and organizational goals and apply strategies for sustaining networks
• Sharpen your persuasion skills to increase your influence and build your credibility by establishing expertise and earning trust
• Discover how to persuade others by appealing to their logic and emotion, and develop strategies to overcome resistance to your ideas