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Influencing Skills for Leaders™

Influencing Skills for Leaders™equips you with the necessary skills to effect different outcomes with effective communication.

This three-day program gives you the skills and confidence you need to confront, develop and influence peers, associates, managers, customers and direct reports to produce exceptional results with consistency and excellence.

Who Should Attend

If you would like to improve your skills in confronting difficult situations and people, influencing others over whom you have no authority, clarifying and communicating expectations, or developing and supporting excellence in others then this program is for you. You do not need to have direct reports to benefit from this program.

Program Outcomes

  • More skillfully conduct a difficult conversation

  • Use valuable insights into your own preferred ways of thinking and responding, and knowledge of others’ to increase the likelihood of a successful, shared outcome

  • Demonstrate more effective skills for active listening and identification of common interests to reach agreement

  • Achieve commitment and buy-in vs. compliance from others at all levels of the organization

  • Achieve results through others and strengthen the relationship

Key Program Features

  • Comprehensive individual feedback based upon the perspective of those with whom you work. Insights are provided on your current strengths and challenges in performing coaching and influencing functions

  • Videotaped coaching exercises with peer and coach reviews and feedback

  • Write and practise your own coaching vignettes using current situations from your workplace


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Testimonials

 
"Excellent course - extremely pleased with the high quality facilitators who are clearly experts in this field."

Lana Lougheed, MBA - Director, Strategic Services
Alberta Gaming

"The facilitators' warmth and knowledge together with the conveyance of their personal experiences made for highly educational sessions."

Vernon Hoshizaki - Manager, Completions
Penn West Petroleum Ltd.