Without influence, managers are ineffective. There is growing recognition that this is a core leadership skill across industries, geographies, and sectors. Managers need to influence up, down & increasingly, sideways, as organisations become flatter, more manoeuvrable & less hierarchical. The Influencing Capabilities Profile provides you with an understanding of your preferred influencing strategy. This is based on the four influencing strategies that make up the Influencing Capabilities Framework: investigating, calculating, motivating & collaborating.
Influencing Capabilities Diagnostic
This report (click on the report above to see a sample profile) is designed to diagnose your influencing capabilities and, in turn, develop your managerial influence. Besides providing you with your profile, it offers valuable information on your strengths and opportunities for growth as an influencer.
Proven Framework and Practical Techniques
It also includes hyperlinks to the different strategies used by four prominent and highly influential leaders. This framework and report have been proven to enhance the ability of managers to influence. It is based on The New Influencing Toolkit: Capabilities for Communicating with Influence, which includes over 60 practical techniques and methods to strengthen each of the four influencing strategies.