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University of Michigan

Influencing People

This course will improve your ability to influence people in situations where you cannot use formal authority. You will learn about effective ways to build, develop, and sustain a power base in your organization. You will also learn influence tactics that enable you to be more persuasive and influential in working with your superiors, peers, and even subordinates. In addition, you will learn how to build and maintain high-quality relationships to further maximize your informal power and ability to influence others. Importantly, you will distinguish between influence and manipulation and learn how to protect yourself from the unwanted influence of others. The influence strategies you learn in this course will make you a more confident and influential leader, presenter, and decision-maker. You will more effective in pitching business ideas to your superiors, influencing customers, and building coalitions across stakeholders. This course will not only give you strategic guidance on how to develop and maintain your network for influence and power, but we will also equip you with specific tactics and strategies that are proven to work for gaining power and influencing people.

Status: Professional Networking
Status: Public Speaking
BeginnerCourse12 hours

Featured reviews

VG

5.0Reviewed Jan 22, 2016

extremely useful course to understand tactics of influencing others and protect yourself from an unwanted influence of others. Applicable in business, work as well as day-to day life.

JW

5.0Reviewed Feb 5, 2018

The course has good theory structure and real-life assignments that will provoke you to apply immediately what you have learned. I enjoyed the lecture's clear pronunciation. It is easy to follow.

SG

5.0Reviewed Jun 4, 2020

It's great course which insights on Influencing people and protect team from manipulation. Indeed it helps me a lot in my professional career. Looking forward for more course and adopt in future.

MF

5.0Reviewed Jan 21, 2016

Really useful course! I learnt many new ways to influence others and protect myself from other people's influence.P.S The cover is a deal-breaker. I joined this course after watching the intro.

AH

5.0Reviewed Dec 26, 2015

Thank you very much for the course. It was very good - would have been perfect if the slides would have been provided :)Would be great if there would be a course: Influencing People part 2

ZL

5.0Reviewed Jul 15, 2020

It is great to learn what is different from manupulate and influence, it is up to the intention. also know the strategy how to protect the team from the harm of manupulation. Great course!!!

TB

5.0Reviewed Dec 23, 2018

One of tutorial that I really like, the explanation video is very detailed. And I think this course recommended for those of you who have just entered the world of entrepreneur or employers.

SG

5.0Reviewed Sep 10, 2017

It was an interesting course, learned a lot of concepts which I haven't heard of earlier with regards to Influencing People in the corporate world. Overall it has been a great learning experience.

MS

4.0Reviewed Aug 12, 2025

This course teach you how you influence others and not get influence as well. after this course you will get to know that if person is trying to influencing and by which technique :)

BD

5.0Reviewed Jan 18, 2016

Some techniques were intuitively known to us but a clear structural classification of our knowledge plus many fresh insights are available in the course. Strongly recommend it for all leaders

JM

5.0Reviewed Feb 4, 2016

I loved this course. It gives a lot of good information to help when I need to influence other people, but my favorite thing is the tips it gives for avoiding others' influence and manipulation.

DA

5.0Reviewed Apr 11, 2021

Very Interesting and helpful program, it has been designed very systematically that fits each block well to draw a picture of how in reality people of different background will react. impressive.

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