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Persuasion & Influencing skills training
Our Persuasion & Influencing skills training will focus on the skills and characteristics that contribute to successful persuasion and influence.
Enhance your interpersonal and communication skills, broaden your perspectives, become more flexible and connect with others to achieve a win-win situation.
With our Persuasion & Influencing skills training, you’ll take away some practical tools and techniques to help maximise your chances of achieving successful outcomes.
We have developed the course to enable you to become more confident, influential and persuasive both in work or in your home life.
You will learn to influence without reliance or authority. You will spend some time looking at behavioural traits. We will look at how to understand different traits and how this will help you to communicate effectively. This leads to being able to persuade and influence others more effectively.
- The definition and differences of persuading and influencing
- Gain self-awareness of your own influencing style, its benefits and possible impact on others
- Learn the best techniques for influencing the different styles and how to become more flexible and adapt your own style
- Why behaviours make a difference and the importance of assertiveness
- How to develop listening, communication skills and effective language patterns
- Have the opportunity to practice key elements of the learning in a safe environment
This course is appropriate for anyone who wants to develop their persuasion and influencing skills and improve their communication skills and self-management.
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Crisp Professional Development
Crisp Professional Development, Pynes Hill Business Centre,Exeter,DevonEX2 5JL
Crisp Professional Development
Crisp Professional Development, Pynes Hill Business Centre,Exeter,DevonEX2 5JL
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Influencing and persuading skills are ways of communicating effectively in order to change someone’s behaviour or thought process, build rapport and motivate. It is a key requirement in organisational communication as often you cannot simply tell someone what to do. They may work in another department, may not be line managed by you or may be resistant to what you are asking.
While it may seem that some people have an innate ability to persuade and influence, they probably spent time trying different techniques. There are plenty of books and TED talks on influencing and persuading. Alternatively you could attend a training course.
Influencing and persuasion skills training takes the form of enhancing your self-awareness and communication skills. You will learn about your assumptions and preferences, the preferences of others, and how to adapt your communication style to get the best out of the interaction with the other person. It will contain elements to help you improve your listening, questioning and rapport building skills.
Cialdini’s six principles of persuasion (sometimes referred to as the science of persuasion) are; reciprocity; scarcity; authority; consistency; liking and consensus.