Topic: The art of influence
If you know you deserve to be heard, want to make a difference or change something — then actively working on your influencing skills is going to be important. And given the collaborative and distributed nature of work today and the increasingly elastic nature of our roles, our ability to get people on board with our ideas and 'take them with us' has never been more valued.
Influence means different things to different people, and the contexts in which we want to have more influence can be nuanced too. To some it might mean selling in a creative idea to a client, or negotiating a higher fee; to others it could be about drawing out decisions quicker or getting our kids in the bath on time.
Snapshot: Workshop prompts, tools + resources
Core content covered:
• The mindset to influence well
• The new ABC of influence: Attunement, buoyancy and clarity
• Finding win-wins, and the 'creative middle ground'
• Tactical empathy
• Framing and the power of metaphor
• Using prefixes to soften a suggestion
Delve into some of the thinking, sources and resources that support and shape our workshops, pathways and tools on this topic — openly shared, and regularly updated here.
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