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		<h3>Description</h3>
		<p></p><p>One of the keys to success today is our ability to effectively influence others. Using the techniques that you learn on this workshop will enable you to influence to change the behaviour of others and produce an effective result without the apparent exertion of direct command or power.</p>
<p>Negotiations can take many forms and can be time-consuming and exhausting. Most employees negotiate without having received any formal training and this can lead to the loss of the object of the negotiation or obtaining a result which is less than satisfactory.</p>
<p><strong>Available as private Face to Face and virtual sessions (max 12 delegates) - £1,305 Plus VAT</strong></p>
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		<h3>Modules/Lessons</h3>
		<p></p><p><strong>Outcomes: </strong></p>
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<li>Detail the factors which impact on your ability to Influence</li>
<li>List the six principles of Persuasion</li>
<li>Describe the difference between Influence and Power</li>
<li>State the five potential outcomes for a Negotiation</li>
<li>Explain what to consider when planning to Negotiate</li>
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<p><strong>Content:</strong></p>
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<li>The Situations we Face - The Four Circles Model</li>
<li>Leadership is an Influencing process</li>
<li>The difference between Influence and Power</li>
<li>The two factors we judge people on</li>
<li>The Four Elements of Trust</li>
<li>The Six Principles of Influence</li>
<li>Knowing your Outcome</li>
<li>Five Potential Results of a Negotiation</li>
<li>Want v's Need</li>
<li>Walk Away</li>
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<p><strong>The Situations we Face - The Four Circles Model</strong></p>
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<li>Understanding how to manage situations we can/can't control, can/can't influence and the choices that we have for our behaviour.</li>
<li>The difference between a reaction and a response</li>
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<p><strong>What is Leadership?</strong></p>
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<li>Defining leadership</li>
<li>Are Influence and Power the same?</li>
<li>The role played by trust and respect</li>
<li>The Blanchard ABCD Model of Trust</li>
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<p><strong>The Six Principles of Persuasion</strong></p>
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<li>Outlined in 'Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion' by Robert Cialdini</li>
<li>How can we use the principles?</li>
<li>Knowing Your Outcome - thinking backwards rather than forwards</li>
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<p><strong>Negotiation</strong></p>
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<li>What are the five potential outcomes of a negotiation?</li>
<li>Negotiation and Motivation</li>
<li>Separating Wants from Needs</li>
<li>The importance of knowing when to walk away</li>
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Mpi Learning - Professional Learning And Development Provider

One of the keys to success today is our ability to effectively influence others.

Influencing Skills

General Admission

Harpenden

<p>The ability to influence others is a life skill but also one that has never been so critically useful at work. This one day workshop will set you on the road to discover what you need to be able to think and do that will help you take people with you. This involves learning some new tools and strategies that fit the situation you are in and making sure you use the right skills and behaviours to influence well, whether it is a single person or a room full of cynical expectant people!</p>This workshop will enable you to:<ul><li>Learn about and understand influencing styles and strategies available and formulate plans and ideas on how to use them in influencing situations</li><li>Understand which skills and behaviours to use to be the most effective influencer</li><li>Have greater confidence in situations where they need to influence someone</li><li>Use thinking, speaking and behavioural techniques that enable influencing to be effective and positive</li><li>Review and evaluate learning and have an action plan to take back and implement in the workplace</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Welcome, introductions &amp; getting to know you and why you are here</h3><ul><li>Course objectives</li></ul> <h3>2 Personal objectives</h3><ul><li>Introducing a learning diary</li></ul> <h3>3 Gallery exercise - using images of exemplars brought by participants</h3><ul><li>Plenary discussion</li><li>The skills and behaviours of an exemplar influencer</li></ul> <h3>4 Group task - what does your self-evaluation say?</h3><ul><li>Discussion and conclusions</li></ul> <h3>5 Influencing - what is it? - why do we need it?</h3><ul><li>The current organisational landscape including values and behaviours the influencer operates in</li></ul> <h3>6 Pit Stop - 'pull / push', 'the lost horse' and 'talking at'</h3> <h3>7 Direct / support / delegate / coach: the different choices and approaches to choose from</h3> <h3>8 Updating the learning diary</h3> <h3>9 Power and types of power - its impact on influencing ability and approach and what is within your control</h3><ul><li>Group task and discussion</li></ul> <h3>10 The 5 influencing styles tool</h3><ul><li>Series of tasks and exercises</li><li>Drilling down to a personal action plan for maximising influence</li></ul> <h3>11 'The person with the most flexibility has the most influence'</h3><ul><li>Skills and behaviours for effective influencing</li><li>Exercises and techniques that develop skills for influencing</li></ul> <h3>12 Review and evaluation</h3><ul><li>Action planning</li></ul> 


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The In House Training Company

Meeting Skills

Leadership Skills

Counselling Skills

Influence Skills

Presentation Skills

Influencing skills at work (In-House)

Manchester

Aspire People and Business Development

Strategic Management

Leadership Development

Strategic Thinking

2 Day Introduction - Becoming a Strategic Leader - Manchester

Delegate Cost

<p>This 2-day workshop is offered with an internal and external focus. Day 1 will focus on building your internal network and relationships by focusing on your personal network, your brand, influencing skills and perceptions. Day 2 focuses on your external relationships with suppliers, patient groups etc. This will focus on assertiveness, outcome rather than relationship focus, and influencing and negotiating skills.</p><section>
                    DAY ONE <h3>1 Can you succeed by yourself?</h3> <h3>2 Relationship awareness theory</h3> <h3>3 The Strengths Deployment Inventory / Your FACET5 profile</h3> <h3>4 Building rapport</h3> <h3>5 Influencing power bases</h3> <h3>6 Active listening</h3> <h3>7 Building your personal internal network</h3> <h3>8 Perceptions</h3> <h3>9 Your brand</h3> DAY TWO <h3>3 Preparing for conflict</h3> <h3>2 The negotiation conversation</h3> <h3>1 Your stakeholders and what they want from you</h3> <h3>4 Influencing others</h3> <h3>5 Your communication approaches for success</h3> <h3>6 Emotional Intelligence</h3> <h3>7 The trust model</h3> <h3>8 Knowing your outcomes</h3> 


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Negotiation Skills

Team Building

Building successful working relationships (In-House)

<p>The work of a technical team is invariably challenging and often unpredictable. Definition of the work can be problematic, timescales can be hard to estimate and the right technical approach difficult to select. Staff involved in this type of work usually have very high levels of specialist knowledge in their field and have high expectations of those who lead them.</p><p>In addition to the challenges of the work, the team leader often has to balance the need for professional excellence with financial and commercial considerations and to ensure that team goals are realistic by being an effective negotiator with other project and senior managers.</p><p>These characteristics make technical team leadership a demanding and complex activity. This programme aims to help participants develop the skills needed to become an effective technical team leader.</p>The objectives of this programme are to help participants:<ul><li>understand the significance of leadership skills and their impact on team performance</li><li>review the key skills needed to be an effective, 'multi-dimensional' team leader and learn how to develop, adapt and apply them in practice</li><li>learn how to identify the preferred leadership style for the context and organisational culture and how to develop personal style versatility</li><li>understand the role of the project leader in building an effective team and the skills required to promote and sustain team performance</li><li>gain a better understanding of the interpersonal skills needed to motivate individual team members and harness the full potential of the team</li></ul><section>
                    DAY ONE <h3>1 Technical teams and leadership</h3><ul><li>What is a leader?</li><li>How much can leadership be learned?</li><li>The team environment and the impact of leadership skills</li><li>The characteristics of high performance teams and their leaders</li><li>Some useful models and theories of leadership explored</li><li>Types of leadership; choosing how to use leadership power</li><li>Evaluating personal leadership style; how to develop style flexibility</li></ul> <h3>2 Essential skills for team leaders</h3><ul><li>3 key dimensions of effective leadership: inwards, outwards and upwards</li><li>Developing and promoting a 'team vision': strategic thinking skills</li><li>The vital role of communication skills and how to develop them</li><li>Understanding others; emotional intelligence skills</li><li>Being a visible leader; behavioural and influencing skills</li><li>Building effective relationships; the importance of trust and respect</li></ul> DAY TWO <h3>3 Leading inwards to build the team</h3><ul><li>The role of leadership in developing team performance</li><li>Understanding individuals in the team; recognising team role preferences</li><li>Managing conflict and promoting positive team dynamics</li><li>Setting standards, maintaining discipline and rewarding performance</li><li>Harnessing team potential: building motivation within the team</li><li>Promoting team learning; the team leader as coach / mentor</li></ul> <h3>4 Leading outwards and upwards to support the team</h3><ul><li>Negotiating realistic team goals; effective influencing skills</li><li>Gaining empowerment and support from the key stakeholders</li><li>Leading upwards: knowing when and how to take the initiative</li><li>Building team credibility within the organisation; helping the team deliver</li><li>Becoming an effective team player in leadership teams</li><li>Building and maintaining rapport with influential stakeholders</li></ul> 


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Team Leading

Project Leadership

Team Leader

Team Management

Leading technical teams (In-House)

<p>The leadership role of the project manager is increasingly recognised as a key determinant in delivering success. These skills can often be critical in project situations, where tight budgets and deadlines demand the highest levels of team performance and where the working environment presents fresh challenges on a daily basis.</p><p>This programme focuses on the leadership skills required of project managers and will benefit anyone involved in managing projects large or small wishing to extend or enhance those skills.</p>The objectives of this programme are to help the participants:<ul><li>Understand the significance of leadership skills to the project manager and the impact of these skills on project performance</li><li>Review the key skills needed to be an effective 'multi-dimensional' project leader and learn how to develop, adapt and apply them in practice</li><li>Learn how to identify the preferred leadership style for the context and organisational culture of a project and how to develop personal style versatility</li><li>Understand the role of the project leader in building an effective team and the skills required to promote and sustain team performance</li><li>Gain a better understanding of the interpersonal skills needed to motivate individual team members and harness the full potential of the team</li></ul><section>
                    DAY ONE <h3>1 Introduction</h3><ul><li>Aims and objectives</li><li>Personal objectives</li></ul> <h3>2 Project management and leadership</h3><ul><li>What is a leader? How much can leadership be learned?</li><li>The project environment and the impact of leadership skills</li><li>The characteristics of high performance project teams and their leaders</li></ul> <h3>3 Principles of effective leadership</h3><ul><li>Some useful models and theories of leadership explored</li><li>Types of leadership; choosing how to use leadership power</li><li>Evaluating personal leadership style; how to develop style flexibility</li></ul> <h3>4 Syndicate case study: Leadership in action</h3><ul><li>Review of the role of leadership in a contemporary project</li><li>Feedback and plenary discussion: effective project leadership</li></ul> <h3>5 Team exercise: Leadership skills of the project manager</h3><ul><li>Teams compete in performing a project simulation</li><li>Project review and feedback</li><li>Discussion of the outcome: role and skills of the project leader</li></ul> <h3>6 Leadership skills for project managers</h3><ul><li>The 3 dimensions of project leadership: inwards, outwards, and upwards</li><li>The vital role of communication skills and how to develop them</li><li>Developing a 'project vision': strategic thinking skills</li><li>Understanding others; emotional intelligence skills</li><li>Being a visible leader; behavioural and influencing skills</li><li>Building effective relationships; the importance of trust and respect</li></ul> DAY TWO <h3>7 Leading the project team</h3><ul><li>The role of leadership in developing team performance</li><li>Understanding individual strengths; recognising team role preferences</li><li>Managing conflict and promoting positive team dynamics</li><li>Setting standards, maintaining discipline and rewarding performance</li><li>Harnessing team potential: building motivation within the team</li><li>Promoting team learning; the team leader as coach / mentor</li></ul> <h3>8 Leading through the organisation</h3><ul><li>Gaining the support others; developing effective influencing skills</li><li>Getting empowerment from key stakeholders</li><li>Knowing when and how to take the initiative and lead</li><li>Building and maintaining rapport with key partners</li><li>Becoming an effective team player in leadership teams</li><li>Becoming a business leader; leading colleagues and co-workers</li></ul> <h3>9 Team exercise: Leadership and negotiation</h3><ul><li>Teams engage in a negotiation exercise</li><li>Exercise review and feedback</li><li>Discussion of the outcome: negotiation skills of the project leader</li></ul> <h3>10 Negotiation skills for project leaders</h3><ul><li>Characteristics of effective negotiators</li><li>Classic problem behaviours and mind-sets to avoid</li><li>Getting to win-win; building partnership and trust</li></ul> <h3>11 Leading more senior stakeholders</h3><ul><li>The challenges and skills of leading and managing upwards</li><li>Communicating with more senior stakeholders; building credibility</li><li>Negotiating upwards: knowing when and how</li><li>The role of networking skills; building and maintaining rapport</li><li>Handling disagreements; the art of diplomacy</li><li>Handling personality and style conflicts with more senior people</li></ul> 


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Global Leadership

Organisational Skills

Effective project leadership (In-House)

<p>It's a fact of life that costs generally increase and as a result prices must go up too.</p><p>Implementing an increase without losing customers is challenging. Talking about a price increase with customers never makes for an easy conversation. Your customers will generally decide whether to accept the increase based upon value, as well as the hassle cost of switching and going elsewhere. Even the most experienced salesperson who has implemented price increases before will be fighting back the nerves when faced with the task of 'selling' the increase.</p><p>In this flexible programme, we will support your internal preparations at whichever stage you and your colleagues are at. From making the decision to increase prices, right through to those on the frontline already dealing with any push-back.</p>This programme will help participants:<ul><li>Understand the business case for increasing prices</li><li>Take steps to research the market</li><li>Consider their customers' motivations</li><li>Use the six principles of influence</li><li>Identify and adapt for different personality styles</li><li>Assess their level of trust with customers</li><li>Build rapport rapidly with their customers and prospects</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Raising prices - keys to success</h3><ul><li>Understanding the business case</li><li>Researching the market</li><li>Assessing the value of your offering</li></ul> <h3>2 Understanding your customer base</h3><ul><li>Assessing your key accounts</li><li>What is your 'target' customer range?</li><li>Creating consistency in pricing approach</li></ul> <h3>3 Planning the increase</h3><ul><li>Timing your implementation</li><li>Communication strategy</li><li>Elements of a good price increase letter</li></ul> <h3>4 Developing influencing skills</h3><ul><li>The Trust Equation</li><li>The six principles of influence</li><li>Discovering your customer's buying decisions</li></ul> <h3>5 Emotional intelligence and price increases</h3><ul><li>The part emotion plays</li><li>Developing strategies for keeping calm</li><li>Handling your customer's responses</li></ul> <h3>6 Understanding different customer styles</h3><ul><li>Discover your own style</li><li>Recognising behaviour traits in others</li><li>Adapting your approach to their style</li></ul> <h3>7 Preparing for customer contact</h3><ul><li>Preparing for specific customers</li><li>Anticipating their response</li><li>Dealing with challenging customers</li></ul> <h3>8 Following through</h3><ul><li>Maintaining a consistent approach</li><li>Resisting requests for discounts</li><li>Confirming the increase in writing</li></ul> 


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Dealing With Difficult Customers

Price increases (In-House)

<p>Maximising the relationship and sales potential of each active account is key to the sustainability of any business relying on repeatable custom.</p><p>In this workshop we start by looking at key techniques for analysing the profitability and development opportunities for different clients before deciding upon the strategy and skills needed for moving the relationship to that of trusted adviser and partner.</p><p>By understanding and creating the need we can use our influencing skills to harness any sales development potential. By creating the habit of explaining our ideas in a way that also meets the need of the other party we help everybody make the right decisions for them.</p>This course will help participants:<ul><li>Assess the sales profitability and potential of existing key accounts</li><li>Prioritise where time and energy is directed for maximum profitability</li><li>Understand the key players in the decision making unit</li><li>Create a strategic plan for the development of each client target</li><li>Develop proactive sales consultancy skills</li><li>Learn advanced communication and influencing techniques</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 What makes an effective account manager?</h3><ul><li>The difference between order taking and account management</li><li>How do you define a key account in your business?</li><li>Why should existing customers remain with your company?</li><li>How do you compare to the competition?</li></ul> <h3>2 How do I prioritise my account management activity?</h3><ul><li>Use practical tools to help you assess revenue potential</li><li>Analyse the investment required versus the return on your time</li><li>Create a SWOT analysis on your clients - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities &amp; Threats</li><li>Appreciate how this knowledge will improve your sales development</li></ul> <h3>3 Planning strategies for each account</h3><ul><li>Create a list of priority accounts and activities</li><li>Learn how to develop a long-term and sustainable relationship</li><li>Discover how they make their purchasing decisions</li><li>Research the make-up of the Decision Making Unit for each client</li></ul> <h3>4 Learning and utilising the six principles of influence</h3><ul><li>Learn the secrets these principles offer sales people</li><li>Discover how these principles will work for you</li><li>Create an influencing strategy for influencers within the client</li><li>Learn new habits of influence</li></ul> <h3>5 Proactive sales skills</h3><ul><li>Plan proactive sales meetings for key accounts</li><li>Set primary and secondary objectives for every touch point with the customer</li><li>Structure sales meetings for maximum effectiveness</li><li>Help the customer commit and achieve their objectives</li></ul> <h3>6 Putting it into practice</h3><ul><li>Discuss real scenarios to plan for putting these skills into practice</li><li>Share common issues with fellow sales people</li><li>Create a personal development plan</li></ul> 


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Account Manager

Account Management

Sales Management

Management Skills

Account management essentials (In-House)

<p>It is important for Officers to understand the roles and responsibilities, processes and procedures involved when working with Elected Members. They also need to appreciate the significance of Elected Members as the decision-makers in local government.</p><p>Officers have a responsibility to work and communicate with Elected Members effectively. This very successful course is designed to help Officers with this.</p><p>Note: this is very much an indicative outline. The programme is tailored to the needs of each particular organisation.</p>To provide managers with the knowledge and understanding they need to have productive working relationships with Elected Members and provide appropriate support.<p>By the end of the course participants will:</p><ul><li>Understand the roles, responsibilities, processes and procedures in place for working with Elected Members</li><li>Be able to identify the best way to approach potentially sensitive issues</li><li>Understand the skills and behaviours required for working effectively with Members</li><li>Be able to deploy their influencing skills more successfully</li><li>Review their learning and have an action plan to take back and implement at work</li></ul><section>
                    					<p><em>Note: this is very much an indicative outline. The programme is tailored to the needs of each particular organisation.</em></p>			  <h3>1 Introduction</h3><ul><li>Welcome and introductions</li><li>Objectives and programme overview</li></ul> <h3>2 Working in a political environment</h3><ul><li>What is political awareness?</li><li>Contact and experience with Members</li><li>Importance of the role of Members</li></ul> <h3>3 Why be an Elected Member?</h3><ul><li>Perceptions of what Elected Members are and do</li><li>Values of Members and their motivations for doing what they do</li></ul> <h3>4 Political decision-making in local government</h3><ul><li>Current challenges and drivers affecting the organisation / the council</li><li>Roles and responsibilities of Officers and Members</li><li>Centrality of Members' strategic role</li></ul> <h3>5 (Option) A day in the life of an Elected Member</h3><ul><li><em>An Elected Member gives a talk about what they do</em></li><li></li></ul> <h3>6 Having a beneficial relationship between Officers and Members</h3> <h3>7 Member / Officer communication</h3><ul><li>Discussion of the formal processes, service procedures, etc (whether enshrined in a protocol, Memorandum of Understanding, etc)</li><li>Response times and requirements</li><li>Procedures required by Heads of Service [if appropriate]</li></ul> <h3>8 Influencing styles and strategies</h3><ul><li>Different forms of power and how they impact</li><li>Developing an appropriate 'influencing style'</li><li>Exploring strategies for improving communication and influencing at work</li></ul> <h3>9 Review and evaluation</h3><ul><li>Review and evaluation of learning</li><li>Personal action plans</li></ul> 


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Professional Skills Course (PSC)

Working with Elected Members (In-House)

<p>This very practical one-day IACCM-approved programme enables participants to manage the process of commercial contracting and contract management effectively and efficiently to ensure value for money, improved service, and appropriate relationships. It covers a wide range of contract types in terms of risk and value. The programme empowers participants with the tools and techniques needed to collaborate with all key stakeholders.</p>By the end of the programme participants will be able to:<ul><li>Understand the total process of managing contracts</li><li>Exploit opportunities to extract even more added value</li><li>Develop appropriate relationships with contractors</li><li>Understand and use a range of contracting strategies and options</li><li>Measure and improve contract performance</li><li>Understand the impact of legislation on contract performance</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Welcome</h3><ul><li>Introductions</li><li>Aims and objectives</li><li>Plan for the day</li></ul> <h3>2 Contract management</h3><ul><li>An overview of the contracting process, mapping the 'territory'</li></ul> <h3>3 Contract managers</h3><ul><li>Skills</li><li>Knowledge</li><li>Attributes</li><li>Responsibilities</li></ul> <h3>4 Critical success factors</h3><ul><li>Defining successful outcomes</li><li>Effective stakeholder engagement</li><li>Creating a shared vision of the outcomes</li></ul> <h3>5 Placing contracts</h3><ul><li>How to develop an effective specification and scope of work documents</li><li>How to develop a robust contracting strategy</li><li>Appropriate types of contract</li></ul> <h3>6 Customers and stakeholders</h3><ul><li>Customer and stakeholder analysis</li><li>Managing expectations and the 'shared vision' concept to ensure customer co-operation, satisfaction, and delight</li></ul> <h3>7 Working with suppliers</h3><ul><li>Creating and developing commercial relationships</li><li>Types of relationship</li><li>How to manage difficult relationships</li><li>Contractor motivational issues</li><li>How to use incentives</li></ul> <h3>8 Negotiation and related skills</h3><ul><li>Introduction to key negotiation skills</li><li>Persuading and influencing skills to work with stakeholders to improve outcomes for all</li></ul> <h3>9 Dealing with change</h3><ul><li>Claims and variations</li><li>How to challenge contractor claims and requests for variations by making use of contractual terms</li><li>Specifications to prevent false claims</li></ul> <h3>10 Performance improvement</h3><ul><li>How to measure and improve contractor performance</li><li>Developing KPI systems</li><li>Using contractual terms and conditions and basic legal principles</li></ul> <h3>11 Contract close</h3><ul><li>The importance of effective contract close processes</li></ul> <h3>12 Close</h3><ul><li>Review of key learning points</li><li>Personal action planning</li></ul> 


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