Influence Edge

Yesterdy (Thursday, Oct 12th) I attended a Personal Development training called Influence Edge in my company. It was an interesting training. The training is about how you can get your work done without authority and how you can influence a person to do something, to say something and to give something.

Influence skill is important to get work done faster, reduce conflict, relieve stress and etc. There are strategies and tools to assist you in the development. There are a lot of activities through out the training to keep the class lively and interesting so i never felt sleepy in the class :)

Share with you some of the Influence Edge Situational Facotrs:

Goal
What do I want?
What will make it clear to the other person?

Self
What assumption am I making?
What is my mindset?

Other
What is their mindset?
What is important to them?

Organisation
What is going on in their organisation?
What is the history?

It's good to refer to these situation and take some time to think about yourself in relation to the other person and the other person's sitaution, in short put yourself in others shoes. Influence always work in two-way, so please take the other person's view into consideration. It might work well for you.

So, why are you still hesitating? Start practicing your influencing power now :) I would strongly recommend you to attend this class, you can actually gain a lot from the class.