An ambitious vision for the future of your organisation isn’t enough – how do you communicate this vision to get your colleagues on board? The ability to effectively communicate and persuade others is a key leadership skill. Traditional and common-sense models of communication and persuasion often fail to capture the complex nature of ‘influencing’. Via structured learning activities (video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessments) this course will develop your capacity to communicate appropriately in different situational and cultural contexts, making you a highly influential leader.
This course is part of the Influencing: Storytelling, Change Management and Governance Specialization
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Critically evaluate a range of theories to decode the components of persuasive communications
Apply a range of different strategies to a variety of contexts to build rapport, overcome resistance, and find acceptance
Develop skills to interpret the motivation of the audience and influence the way they think and feel to support your ideas
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
The necessary art of persuasion: Understanding what matters to your audience
Telling your story: Developing a dramatic narrative
Connecting with people: Developing authenticity and building rapport
Talk the talk: Creating impressions and guiding influential conversations
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TOP REVIEWS FROM STORYTELLING AND INFLUENCING: COMMUNICATE WITH IMPACT
This is by far the most engaging and interesting Coursera course I've ever took. It's absolutely worth spending your time. The auxiliary materials are brilliant as well as main lectures.
This course covered what is needed to make a great presentation, tell a compelling interesting story and also covered a good review of the sales skills everyone needs and much more.
Excellent course! Absolutely great content, lots of examples and further resources. I really enjoyed this course with th two course leaders, Arabella MacPherson and Lawrence Ang. Thank you!
I found this course is very fascinating and fun. I love all the techniques and how they give tips to apply in our daily life. I strongly recommend you to join this informative course!
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