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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Influencing People by University of Michigan

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About the Course

This course will improve your ability to influence people in situations where you cannot use formal authority. You will learn about effective ways to build, develop, and sustain a power base in your organization. You will also learn influence tactics that enable you to be more persuasive and influential in working with your superiors, peers, and even subordinates. In addition, you will learn how to build and maintain high-quality relationships to further maximize your informal power and ability to influence others. Importantly, you will distinguish between influence and manipulation and learn how to protect yourself from the unwanted influence of others. The influence strategies you learn in this course will make you a more confident and influential leader, presenter, and decision-maker. You will more effective in pitching business ideas to your superiors, influencing customers, and building coalitions across stakeholders. This course will not only give you strategic guidance on how to develop and maintain your network for influence and power, but we will also equip you with specific tactics and strategies that are proven to work for gaining power and influencing people....

Top reviews

TA

Mar 24, 2019

A very useful course, presented in a very simple and structured way, using an easy English language with a lot of subtitles.

You shall like and get a huge benefit from the materials and the course.

MF

Jan 21, 2016

Really useful course! I learnt many new ways to influence others and protect myself from other people's influence.

P.S The cover is a deal-breaker. I joined this course after watching the intro.

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By Shoeb

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Mar 16, 2021

Good

By Simona D C

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Aug 13, 2021

4,5

By Abdulmohsen A

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Sep 26, 2021

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By Brianna K

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Jul 17, 2024

Scott DeRue, Ph.D. I find it exceptional that he is teaching the course about influencing people when he can't keep the "ums" out of every other word. How is he expected to influence anyone when he keeps 'um-ing' like someone with "no power" not a Ph.D. professor confident in his teaching materials. Very disappointed. Especially given that this a recorded class, meaning he could have done some reshoots to sound a little better.

By Alberto A

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Jan 23, 2022

good but basic, not ideal for professionals

By Pavel V

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Dec 5, 2023

Not enough practical examples

By Meghan W

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May 3, 2022

great course, but a review of the quizes and stats needs to happen. Two of the four sections gave a prompt hat mor ethan the majority of the sutdent popution didn't pass the quiz. That tells me tharere is an issue with the quiz. Specifally week two, I took it enough times to try every answero nce, and try what I thought the correct answer (C) for question one and there is no right answer. At some point someone needs to dust this tried and true coure off an take a look at what is happening and get some more recent studies to back up findings or counter them as the landscape has changed. Een if more recetn studies back up the fidings of the older studies, that is fine. It is now releant. The studies shown lacked demographic diversity as well.

By Nandita M

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Jul 25, 2022

Thank you for the course.

What I did not like is - first in the course it is explained how to influence others and in the end of the course it is explained what to be done so not to get influenced by others. That means others will do the same when you are trying to influence.

Nevertheless, I liked few points from videos in week 2 & 3.

By p v

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Jul 5, 2022

good

By ENRIQUE A A M

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Mar 20, 2021

Demasiado lento y desactualizado ya que el material es de 2015. Intenté cancelarlo pero no me deja hacerlo. No he podido contactar a alguien en persona para hacerlo ya que no quiero que me vayan a hacer cargos a mi forma de pago.