Practical Influencing Techniques
2h 51mBeginner2021-04-12
Authors

Chris Croft
Lecturer, Thought Leader, Project Management, Leadership
Course details
Influencing is happening in every meeting you have. Other people are influencing you, and you are influencing them. It's a vital life skill. In this course, instructor Chris Croft brings an engineer's mind to the subject. Chris presents a six-step process that you can follow in any influencing situation, with techniques that you can use at each stage, depending on the type of person you would like to influence. He explains how you can use this process to prepare for meetings and get the best from every relationship, whether at work or at home, with customers, bosses, suppliers, friends, or relatives. Chris goes over the ethics of influencing, as well. Understanding the psychology of influencing helps you to build better relationships and get better outcomes with everyone you meet.
Skills covered
Leadership SkillsLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- What to expect - Process and people
What Is Influencing
- Every interaction
- Stick and carrot
- Push vs. pull
An Influencing Process
- Based on a real example
- Decide on your objectives
- Be liked
- Understand their position
- Explain your problem
- Suggest a solution
- Handle objections
- Apply it to a real situation
But People Vary
- Adapting the process to personality
- A model of four types of person
Techniques for Analytical People
- The first category of person
- How to spot a blue or analytical person
- Be impressed by their knowledge
- Talk in their style, not yours
- Joint problem-solving
- Give them the facts
- Use feelings
- Start with a small commitment
- Apply the blue people's tips to the six steps
Techniques for Controllers
- Welcome to red people
- How to spot a red person or controller
- Impressed by their achievements
- The results they can get
- Make it quick and easy for them
- Question to weaken
- Choice of A or B
- Negotiate
- Bad things to say to a controller
- Timing
- Applying the red tips to the six-step process
Techniques for Enthusiasts
- Pros and cons of being a yellow enthusiast
- How to spot a yellow enthusiast
- A process that yellows enjoy
- Paint a picture
- High energy
- Compared to what
- Confront them with facts
- Questioning
- Applying the yellow's tips to the six-step process
Techniques for Amiable People
- Are green people easy to influence
- How to identify green people
- Relationships are everything
- Show emotions
- Taking your time
- Social proof
- Security
- Give and take
- Using facts
- Applying the green's tips to the six-step process
Conclusion
- Use ethically
- Congratulations and summing up