Collaboration and Influence

Successful leaders understand how critical the power of influence is to the ability to create value for their stakeholders. This new digital program guides leaders through the process of understanding the perspectives of their various stakeholder groups and engaging with them to achieve common goals. Learn to deliver a powerful vision, orchestrate complex change, or gain support for a key innovation by developing your competence in stakeholder engagement, influence, strategic engagement and negotiation.

OUTCOMES

• Build empathy by identifying what matters to each stakeholder group
• Learn how to better engage with your key stakeholders
• Align purpose and address conflicts within groups
• Appeal to and leverage different stakeholder perspectives to develop more effective solutions
• Develop a negotiation style and approach that opens communication and builds trust between parties, making it possible to create mutual value in the final agreement

COURSE FORMAT

Collaboration and Influence is an on-demand, online program conducted over the course of 5 weeks. There are five modules, which each contain:

• Videos covering important concepts
• Learning Surveys to benchmark your pre-program knowledge and track your progress throughout the program
• Assignments that give you a chance to learn by doing
• Toolkits that provide you with strategies for taking these skills back to the real world

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS PROGRAM?

Leaders and team members who need to:

• Communicate a vision and gather support for it
• Motivate teams to do accomplish goals
• Manage the risks of diverse stakeholders failing to achieve alignment on key projects
• Become more influential inside and outside their organization
• Efficiently and effectively navigate daily interactions with peers, teams, and other stakeholders