Influence and Persuasion at Work - Online ILT

Length 3 hours

Course overview

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Why study this course

Influence and persuasion extends beyond marketing and sales. It affects almost all business processes that require human resources. This training course in Influence and Persuasion helps to master the skills required to influence and persuade others in a variety of areas.

You'll gain a deeper understanding of the nuances of persuasion. You'll also learn techniques used for influencing and persuading others such as using storytelling, neuro-linguistics, planning conversations, mirroring, matching, and more. Learning and using these techniques will help you to influence and persuade others easily and successfully.

This is an instructor-led class that you can attend from home or your office.

We use secure video conferencing with interactive features such as live polling, screen sharing, whiteboards, live chat and breakout sessions.

These courses are facilitated in English, and are open to people from different industries in all countries especially across Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, South East Asia, and the Pacific. This is a short but powerful learning experience that gives you global collaboration opportunities.

Please note: these classes run to a very tight schedule. Please follow the invitation and join the class 10 minutes prior to commencement so you are ready to participate and don't miss a minute!

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What you’ll learn

After completing this course participants will be able to:

Make decisions about using persuasion versus manipulation
Apply the concepts of pushing and pulling when influencing others
Understand persuasion
Prepare to persuade
Describe different techniques for getting persuasive conversations and presentations underway
Make a persuasive presentation by using the 5 Ss
Apply storytelling techniques to extend influence
Leverage concepts of neuro linguistic programming in everyday influence and persuasion
Get off on the right foot
Use various presentation strategies
Use neuro linguistic programming (NLP) techniques

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Who is the course for?

This is a practical class that is suitable for all audiences, and provides participants with tools they can apply on-the-job (and in other contexts) the very next day.

Course subjects

Lesson 1: Getting Started

Workshop Objectives
Action Plan

Lesson 2: Understanding Persuasion

How Persuasion Works
Pre-Assignment Review

Lesson 3: Preparing to Persuade

Pushing and Pulling
Communicating with Confidence
Frame of Reference

Lesson 4: Getting Off on the Right Foot

Building Rapport
Matching and Mirroring
Pacing
Leading

Lesson 5: Presentation Strategies

Five Points for Any Presentation
Preparing with the Five S Pattern

Lesson 6: Using Stories to Persuade

The Importance of Story
Storytelling Time
Debrief

Lesson 7: Using Neuro Linguistic Programming

Defining Neuro Linguistic Programming
A Brief History
Understanding Common NLP Terms
Embedding Positive or Negative Commands
Influencing Outcomes

Prerequisites

None

THIRD PARTY REGISTRATION

DDLS offers training through our partnership with PD Training. This arrangement requires DDLS to provide your details to PD Training for course registration purposes.

Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by DDLS is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.

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