“Influential Leadership is an exceptional program. It is geared especially toward meeting the high expectations of today’s clients.”

Jan Shaffer, Assistant VP Customer Service Merrill Lynch

“This was by far the most useful, interesting and inspirational in my career. Thanks!”

Accountant,
Anoka, MN

“Sherry appeals to all personality types and touches everybody with her accessible style.”

Susan Mortensen,
Director of Honeywell's Women's Council

Influential Leadership

Overview:
In this one day program, you will learn from successful business leaders about how to plan, influence and communicate with new strategies, approaches and tools. By applying this practical information, you will begin thinking more strategically while increasing the buy-in of multiple audiences.

Leadership begins with self-understanding. By completing the DiSC instrument, you will gain new information about your personal strengths and areas to work on as a leader. To understand how to better approach diverse audiences, you will review current data on your audiences in the areas of thinking styles, motivational levels, gender and generational differences.

Results:
As a result of practicing the new leadership tools and techniques, each person will have an outline of a persuasive leadership plan and an influential communication.

Highlights:

• The principles of influence leaders
• A leadership communication approach for creating buy-in
• How to adjust your message to your audience based on thinking styles and differences in gender and generations
• The “Talking Points” method for leadership planning and communicating
• The “Gorilla Method” for strategizing recommended by Warren Buffett
• Tools and techniques for responding to others
• 9 Diplomacy tactics

Activities:
Each participant will:

• Develop and practice a leadership communication they can present at work
• Complete and apply knowledge from the DiSC Instrument