Without meaningful influence within your organizational system, your professional effectiveness becomes limited, and your prospects for advancement, recognition, and career growth may be significantly constrained. This course teaches you new competencies and practical strategies for developing influence deliberately, and challenges you to apply these frameworks to a specific influence scenario you currently face in your work environment.
You will learn how to utilize the Personal Power Builder tool to construct a strategic influence plan designed to help you expand your personal power base and broaden your sphere of influence throughout your organization. This tool provides a valuable framework you can return to repeatedly, enabling you to address future influence challenges and continuously refine your approach.
Primary Course Objective:
Construct a meaningful personal power foundation and leverage it strategically to expand your influence and effectiveness across your organization.
Target Audience and Participants:
Business professionals who wish to enhance their career trajectory and professional effectiveness by expanding their influence and impact within their organization.
Without meaningful influence within your organizational system, your professional effectiveness becomes limited, and your prospects for advancement, recognition, and career growth may be significantly constrained. This course teaches you new competencies and practical strategies for developing influence deliberately, and challenges you to apply these frameworks to a specific influence scenario you currently face in your work environment.
You will learn how to utilize the Personal Power Builder tool to construct a strategic influence plan designed to help you expand your personal power base and broaden your sphere of influence throughout your organization. This tool provides a valuable framework you can return to repeatedly, enabling you to address future influence challenges and continuously refine your approach.
How You Will Benefit and Apply Learning:
Employ a research-based methodology for identifying and building your personal power
- Develop and leverage a robust personal power base to expand your sphere of influence
- Enhance your professional effectiveness and impact throughout your organization
- Construct a strategic influence action plan that addresses your particular influence challenge
Topics and Areas of Focus:
Building Your Personal Power Foundation
- Understand Why Establishing a Personal Power Base is Critical to Increasing Your Influence
- Apply the Personal Power Model Framework to Build Your Own Power Base
- Use the Power and Dependency Model to Identify and Select an Influencing Approach
- Anticipate How Others Will Respond to Your Influence Attempts Using the Commitment Compliance Model
Expanding and Leveraging Your Personal Power
- Recognize How Strategic Exchange, Relationship Building, and Partnerships Form the Foundation of Power and Enable Influence
- Apply a Strategy Matrix to Identify Additional Individuals and Groups You Need to Influence
Complete Course Structure and Competencies:
Core Learning Objective
- Build and Leverage a Robust Personal Power Base to Expand Your Influence and Effectiveness Throughout Your Organization
Defining and Establishing Your Personal Power
- Articulate Why a Strong Personal Power Base is Essential to Developing Influence
- Apply the Personal Power Model Systematically to Establish Your Own Power Base
- Use the Power and Dependency Model as Your Guide to Select an Influencing Strategy
- Prepare for Influence Outcomes Using the Commitment Compliance Model to Anticipate Responses
Leveraging and Expanding Your Personal Power Base
- Describe How Reciprocal Exchange, Meaningful Relationships, and Strategic Partnerships Underpin Your Power Foundation and Enable Your Influence
- Apply a Strategy Matrix Tool to Identify Additional Stakeholders and Individuals You Must Influence
