Techniques of exerting influence

Why you should take this training?

The training aims is designed to present specific methods of influence allowing participants to increase their power of persuasion using well-tested psychological tools

The training will also give you the opportunity to:

  1. Learn a number of the most effective social engineering techniques
  2. Learn the practical use of the best tools of the art of persuasion
  3. Gain the ability to use covert persuasion while respecting the rights of other people

Protect yourself against manipulation and feel safe

Who is it for?

The training is intended for those who want to hone their skills of exerting influence, including in sales settings, by consciously using proven methods of persuasion. It is also a great choice for those who want to knowingly read the messages coming from their environment and become more confident in relations with others.

Participation in the training is an opportunity to learn about exerting direct, though ethical influence using well-tested methods and techniques, such as body language, and to face this challenge in practice.

Agenda of the training:

I. Authority, status and persuasive power:

  1. building and developing group/team leadership
  2. the mechanism of self-confidence and how to strengthen it
  3. social worthiness as the key to the perception of everything you say and represent,
  4. authority-building techniques

II. How to get people to like you and feel good vibes: how to build good contacts with people:

  1. The likeability mechanism – what makes some people able to win people over and how to learn it
  2. How to turn enemies into allies
  3. Techniques for ethically making people like us more and to attain the same objective between group/team members

III. Social influence: how to increase people's trust, support and willingness to participate in what you suggest:

  1. Building and increasing the importance of any service, article, project or person
  2. Persuading people to take the suggested action
  3. Increasing support for your position
  4. Techniques for persuading people by showcasing others, i.e. how to make use of social proof

IV. Increasing value: how to increase demand and enthusiasm for what you present (services, ideas, products):

  1. How to give others the gut feeling that it is worth investing more money, time and energy in what you suggest
  2. The desire effect and how to deliberately induce it
  3. Techniques of the language of uniqueness – the most powerful psychological tool, and how to use it to boost someone's motivation (using your self-presentation as an example)

V. Ethical persuasion techniques: why do people do what they do and how can you get them to do exactly what you suggest?

  1. How to get people to agree with what you suggest
  2. How to reach the desired outcome by skilfully designing the situation
  3. Techniques for generating consequences: foot in the door, low ball, collecting acknowledgements

VI. Winning people over: how to boost the power of your contacts and relationships:

  1. How to get others to act in your favour
  2. How to increase the power of cooperation using the win-win approach
  3. How to make loyal and faithful colleagues
  4. How to boost the power of requests using the reciprocity principle
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