COURSES > CONFIDENCE & RESILIENCE

Influencing and Engaging Online

Remotely Convince and Persuade

Chaired by
Stuart Riddington

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All of our training courses can be tailored specifically for your team or organisation and presented at your offices, at another suitable location or virtually.


Overview

Trying to influence and engage with a colleague or stakeholder is very different online to in-person. The barriers come up and it’s easier for the person who you are trying to convince to shy away.

Our virtual course has been specifically designed to help public sector professionals overcome the barriers to remotely influencing and engaging colleagues, key stakeholders and service users online.

Learn and understand the theory behind influencing and engaging others; create a dynamic virtual setting to help you remotely engage, and gain online active listening skills and body language techniques.


Consultant

Stuart is a business development and strategy expert, who is passionate about developing leaders and helping organisations move forward. He works with the private sector, third sector and public sector in a wide range of training and consultancy projects to develop income generation; leadership development and strategic positioning.

He has worked with NHS Trusts, government departments, local authorities, international, national and local charities, SME’s and Fortune 500 companies. Stuart has worked extensively with organisations internationally including the USA, Hong Kong, Tanzania, China, Mexico, El Salvador and Thailand. His creative approach to developing strategy and leaders means he ...

Stuart Riddington

Learning Outcomes

  • Understanding the theory of
    influencing and engaging

  • Learn and apply the win/win theory

  • Create your virtual setting to
    maximise your influence

  • Gain online active listening and
    body language techniques

  • Enhance your influence in remote
    and hybrid settings through
    role-plays





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Agenda

09:00 - 09:30 Registration


09:30 - 10:00 Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Outcomes


10:00 - 10:30 Understanding the Theory of Influencing and Engaging

  • Gain a quick overview of the theory by influencing and engaging

  • Discuss in groups and with the trainer how influencing can be applied within the public sector

  • Learn about the psychology behind influencing and engaging

  • Understand the win/win theory


10:30 - 10:45 Break


10:45 - 11:30 Maximising Influence: Creating the Virtual Space

·       Plan and prepare your virtual setting: background picture, remove distractions, and resolve technology issues

·       Learn techniques to come across professionally online

·       Make an online impact instantly

·       Take a holistic view of all of the virtual platforms

·       Preparations required to Influence online


11:30 - 12:15 Active Listening Online

·       Gain active listening skills to influence online

·       Understand the importance of silence on video conferences

·       Instill trust and confidence in a virtual setting

·       Build longer lasting partnerships

·       Practice paraphrasing to demonstrate understanding

·       Learn when and not to question show that you have understood


12:15 - 13:00 Utilise Body Language Techniques Online

·       Learn how to build trust remotely

·       Practice developing your on-screen body language

·       Gain practical techniques to remotely read eye movement


13:00 - 14:00 Lunch


13:45 - 14:00 Reflection Session

  • Trainer will review the day’s learning and the next stages of the course

  • Delegates will have time to ask questions and share views with one another


14:00 – 16:00 Roleplay Workshop: Online Influencing and Engagement in Action

Working in groups, delegates will work in breakout rooms to practise techniques to influence remotely.

  • This session includes the opportunity for delegates to discuss which techniques would work best for them in a professional and personal environment

  • Work through public sector examples to help you become a better influencer

  • Take part in role plays to use the knowledge learnt during the day to hone your influencing skills

  • Apply the win/win theory

16:00 – 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation and Close

  • Effective Report Writing, Senior Engineering Specialist, Eastleigh Borough Council

    “This course provided an excellent understanding of how to write effectively and why it is important to do so.”

  • Effective Proofing and Editing Skills: Senior Events Officer, King's College London

    “I would really recommend the course. Sue is a fantastic trainer and the day passed by far too quickly. Lots of helpful resources to take away, also very impressed with the smooth transition to online learning. Thank you!

  • Effective Data Visualisation: Corporate Performance Management Officer, Carmarthenshire County Council

    “I have learned a great deal with many tips and ideas to enable to improve the authority’s reports”

  • Effective Business Process Mapping: Internal Quality and Improvement Officer, Social Work England

    “It was a fun course to take a part in. There was a lot of information given, and it was done in an engaging way with lots of interactivity, even over zoom. i really enjoyed the course and learned lots from it.”

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