Influencing skills

Your best ideas are only as powerful as your ability to attract support from others. That’s why influencing skills are fundamental to your success in any interpersonal communication situation. This Influencing course prepares you to maximise your persuasiveness in any setting, whether it’s a presentation, meeting or informal conversation.

Throughout the Influencing training, you will work hands-on with your trainer and other course participants. You will discover a wide range of strategies and communication techniques that help you promote your ideas and win support more effectively.

Influencing skills are not about ‘tricking’ others to believe whatever you want them to. Instead, they are about positioning your thoughts in ways that allow others to see the potential, understand the mutual benefits and enthusiastically share your vision. Learn all this and more in this in-depth, interactive course.

The following subjects are covered:

• The continuum of ‘power - manipulation - influence’
• The basics of influencing: 10 influencing behaviours
• The power of beliefs
• The power of feelings
• Effective influencing strategies: contexts, targets and goals
• Inspiring presentations: The importance of authenticity
• The debating game: What works and what doesn't
• The power of thinking
• The power of will
• Non-verbal aspects of high-impact influencing
• Stakeholder analysis

Target audience

At every stage of your career or level of your organisation, effective influencing skills are always a vital asset. Stop letting your good ideas go unnoticed! With the proven strategies and tactics you learn in this Influencing course, you set yourself on a path to more enriching interactions, better persuasiveness and stronger support from your colleagues and other stakeholders.

Choose in-person or online

When you register, you can choose for an in-person course at one of our venues. Or, register for an online course in the 'virtual classroom'. Which do you prefer? With the 'virtual class' we guarantee the same quality and results. You can read it on www.suas.nl/opleidingen-en-trainingen/virtual-classroom-en.

The total price contains the following components:

Training course 

The price of this course is € 1.295,00 (excl. 21% VAT). 

Do you pay the invoice yourself? Then you automatically get a beneficial advantage. Instead of a 21% VAT charge, you only receive a 10% fee. Your course price will then be € 1.424,50.

Course material

The price for the course materials is € 75,54 (excl. VAT). You will receive:

• Ten influencing skills (book)
• Succeskit SUAS NL
• Personal licence for learning environment MijnSN

Facility costs

The price for the use of the accommodation, coffee/tea and an extensive lunch buffet is € 160,00 (excl. VAT). You obviously do not pay any facility costs if you choose the online course in the 'virtual class'.

Start and end measurement

This course improves your skills. We can guarantee that. How? Before you start your course, you take a scan. This determines your starting level and helps set the right goals. You receive a personal report. That way, you know exactly where you stand, what you want to accomplish, and how to get there. Your trainer helps you to focus and develop, in order to reach your full potential. After your training is done, you take another scan. This end measurement shows how much you’ve grown, and where you can still develop your skills further.

Course days

The total duration of the training course is 6 weeks. The training course consists of an online kick-off and 2 blocks of 1 day. Your time investment is approximately two hours of self study a week: theoretical and practical through the MijnSN learning community.

Block 1 and 2

• 1 day from 9.30 AM till 5.00 PM

You train virtual? Then we modify the course days: a training that original takes one day, will be virtual in two days of 3,5 hours. In this way we ensure that you do not spend full days behind your screen and you stay fresh enough to absorb the information. View the schedule for your course days and times.

Participants

The maximum group size for the training course is 12 participants.

Mentor

Real learning starts with the practical application of what you have learned. You will commence several practical assignments within your own organization, selecting a mentor to supervise and stimulate your learning process - before the first meeting. The mentor could be your manager or a (senior) colleague. For more information on the mentor's role please visit www.suas.nl/mentor. After three weeks you will take your experiences in this regard to the next meeting.

Certificate

On completion of the training course and subject to attendance and active participation, SUAS will award a certificate. Our certificates are highly regarded in the business community.

Are several colleagues facing the same challenge? Then in-company is the ideal option. This course or training can be organized within your organization. Our specialized sister company Relevance will develop this customized training program in cooperation with you. Relevance will then adapt the assignments and examples to the practical situation in your organization.

Benefits of Incompany

• Efficient - You bring the knowledge and competences of entire teams to a higher level in one go.
• High efficiency - The specific learning objectives and wishes of your colleagues are central.
• Assurance - We use current practical situations for optimal assurance of learning goals.
• Always - You decide when we organize the course or training.
• Everywhere - We organize the course or training wherever you want. Inside or outside your organization.

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