Course Overview

Influencing Without Authority is a leadership competency course which gives an insight on how to positively impact others and persuade or convince them to gain your support. With the influence competency, you are persuasive and engaging and can build buy-in from critical people. This course equips you with the skills to enhance your trustworthiness with critical stakeholders. It enables you to discuss the behaviours of leaders who know how to get work done through influence and persuasion, whether managing up, down, across, or diagonally within organisations.

Benefits of Attending

• Master how to be an efficient and “informal” leader without formal authority
• Cultivate relations with and influence critical stakeholders to drive successful collaboration in top-down and multi-dimensional work environment
• Hone influencing abilities to resolve performance challenges

Who Should Attend

This workshop-styled course is especially suitable for those who need to be more effective in gaining the support of those over whom you do not have formal authority across levels, functions, and industries. Attending this course will benefit a wide range of roles, such as (but not limited to) project managers, business analysts, top managers, middle managers, first-line managers, team leaders, project team members, and sponsors. In addition, executives who need to promote your agenda, who need to “manage up,” and those who need to drive change, both one-on-one and across organisational boundaries, will also benefit from this course.

Course Requirements

You must meet two criteria to be eligible for an Informa Connect Academy Certificate of Completion:

• Satisfactory attendance – You must attend all sessions of the course. If you miss more than two hours of the course you will not be eligible to receive the certificate
• Successful completion of the course assessment – Assessment will be ongoing based on your in-class participation

Delivered by Melina

Melina is the founder of Earth & Co, a consulting company that has been leading SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and ESG (Environmental, Social andGovernance), projects from conception to implementation, supporting Fortune 1000 companies in the Agri-food, Renewable Energy, Technology, Media, Retail, andConsumer Goods markets. She is a social entrepreneur who in 2020 was one of the seven women globally that received the prestigious “SDGs and Her” award from the United Nations and the World Bank, for her work in the implementation of the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development.

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