Establishing Yourself as an Influential Leader Course

This course explores how leaders use influence to improve outcomes and increase success. Participants examine ways to identify and build strong relationships, understand and strengthen personal influence, apply persuasion and negotiation techniques, and develop effective partnerships and coalitions.

What You Will Learn

• Strengthen connections with external partners, direct reports, and colleagues across the organization
• Evaluate how influence shapes outcomes in the workplace
• Use persuasion and negotiation strategies to move initiatives forward
• Design methods for building partnerships with individuals and coalitions with groups.

Course Outline

Module 1: The Power of Building Relationships

• Explore strategies for fostering meaningful professional relationships.
• Recognize the role of trust and communication in effective relationship building.
• Identify techniques to strengthen collaboration across teams and organizations.

Module 2: The Power of Influence in the Workplace

• Examine how influence shapes workplace dynamics and decision-making.
• Learn approaches for establishing credibility and authority.
• Develop practical skills for positively impacting others in professional settings.

Module 3: Persuasion and Negotiation

• Understand the principles of persuasion and their application in the workplace.
• Learn negotiation strategies that lead to win-win outcomes.
• Practice techniques for resolving conflicts and achieving agreements.

Module 4: Partnerships and Coalitions

• Explore the importance of partnerships in achieving organizational goals.
• Examine strategies for forming and sustaining coalitions.
• Analyze real-world examples of successful partnerships and collective efforts.

This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.