Building your influence in the workplace requires mastering two critical skills: leveraging your networks and persuading others. In this course, you'll identify how to create an effective network by improving your interpersonal skills, accessing new information, and connecting with important organizational stakeholders. You'll also determine how to boost your ability to persuade effectively and gain others' buy-in, helping you build credibility, earn trust, and increase your influence.
Build Your Influence
Build Your Influence
This course is part of Boost Your Leadership Impact Specialization
Instructor: Harvard Business Review
Access provided by Signify
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level
Some related experience required
1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
What you'll learn
Create, assess, and strengthen your network while initiating and developing reciprocal relationships
Leverage your networks to achieve personal, team, and organizational goals and apply strategies for sustaining networks
Sharpen your persuasion skills to increase your influence and build your credibility by establishing expertise and earning trust
Discover how to persuade others by appealing to their logic and emotion, and develop strategies to overcome resistance to your ideas
Skills you'll gain
Details to know
Shareable certificate
Add to your LinkedIn profile
Taught in English
Recently updated!
October 2025
See how employees at top companies are mastering in-demand skills
Build your subject-matter expertise
This course is part of the Boost Your Leadership Impact Specialization
When you enroll in this course, you'll also be enrolled in this Specialization.
- Learn new concepts from industry experts
- Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
- Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
- Earn a shareable career certificate
There are 3 modules in this course
Networking isn’t “just political game-playing”—it’s a crucial skill for all managers. By learning to create an effective network, you can improve your interpersonal skills, access new information, and connect with important organizational stakeholders.
What's included
27 videos34 readings1 assignment
Boost your ability to persuade others to get the buy-in you need to accomplish your goals. By learning the art and science of effective persuasion, you build credibility, earn trust, and increase your influence.
What's included
8 videos31 readings1 assignment
What's included
2 assignments
Earn a career certificate
Add this credential to your LinkedIn profile, resume, or CV. Share it on social media and in your performance review.
Instructor
Offered by
Why people choose Coursera for their career
Felipe M.
Learner since 2018
"To be able to take courses at my own pace and rhythm has been an amazing experience. I can learn whenever it fits my schedule and mood."
Jennifer J.
Learner since 2020
"I directly applied the concepts and skills I learned from my courses to an exciting new project at work."
Larry W.
Learner since 2021
"When I need courses on topics that my university doesn't offer, Coursera is one of the best places to go."
Chaitanya A.
"Learning isn't just about being better at your job: it's so much more than that. Coursera allows me to learn without limits."
Explore more from Business
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
Coursera
Northwestern University
¹ Some assignments in this course are AI-graded. For these assignments, your data will be used in accordance with Coursera's Privacy Notice.