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Intelligent Influence Workshops

In studying the power of influence, I learned that “a leader or project team’s success is primarily determined by the manner that they influence others.”  Amazingly, the way in which a leader or project team influences others is more important than what they actually do. 

Most leadership and team training workshops are ineffective because they do not offer the influence related training necessary to provide sustainable improvement in the workshop participants.  The “Intelligent Influence Workshops” are custom designed to enhance the effectiveness of leaders, project teams and employees in a sustainable way. 

Every successful person, project team and organization consciously or intuitively utilizes the four-step Intelligent Influence process to achieve their goals.  However, most people do not know this secret of success.

Step 1 of the process is called Influence Awareness.  This step entails understanding how each individual in the workshop has been influenced to do what they do in the way that they do it.

Step 2 is called Influence Impact.  This step entails assessing each participant’s influence strengths and weaknesses.

Step 3 is called Influence Management. This step entails identifying the influences each workshop participant needs to overcome their Influence Weaknesses and achieve their personal, professional and organization goals.

Step 4 is called Influence Maximization.  This final step entails using information gathered from the other three steps to establish the type of Credibility, Creativity and Connection necessary to influence anyone, in any way at any time.

Influence is embedded in our notion of leadership, intrinsically understood by marketers to be the basis for advertising dominance, fundamental to the ability to manage effectively and inspire teams.  Yet the importance of influence to a leader or project team’s performance remains hidden even as it represents the key to success across all functions of an organization. 

The Intelligent Influence Workshops are customized to our client’s specific staff development needs.  This training, which utilizes real-life scenarios, the latest research and videos, can take place in a few hours, one day or over multiple days.  The length of the workshops depends on our client’s specific training needs.   We work with clients to ensure that the cost of the Intelligent Influence Workshop is within their budget and provides a significant return on their investment through the increased engagement, productivity and influence of the participants.

If you would like more information about the Intelligent Influence Workshops, please contact us at dcaldwell@StrategicInfluence.consulting.  Our objective is to use workshops and training sessions to increase the effectiveness of client leadership teams.

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