Positive Power & Influence® Programme

In detail

What you will learn

Get the most out of every situation
How do you easily convince people of your ideas and proposals? How do you get buy-in from people? Trying to do things your way sometimes leads to clashes with your colleagues. Not taking a position means that you don’t achieve your goal. Find out how you effectively achieve your objectives, while taking other people into consideration.

The Influence Model® teaches you how your current behaviour affects others. Experience how you can be successful using a different approach. With our help, you personally guide yourself through your learning process. During your training programme you will determine your learning objectives and your path towards reaching them. You decide how far you want to step outside of your comfort zone to get to the desired result. This will ensure that you will be successful in achieving the goals you are aiming for!

Positive Power & Influence® Programme equips you to:

Understanding your own behaviour and that of others.
Effectively dealing with resistance and confrontation.
Getting people involved with your ideas.
Providing clarity in your communication towards others.

More key takeaways of the Positive Power & Influence® Programme:

You are able to persuade others about your plans.
You are able to effectively state what you want and what results you expect (providing feedback).
You enhance collaboration by addressing challenges and concerns directly, rather than avoiding difficult conversations.
You create enthusiasm and get others on board with your vision or idea.
You get the most out of the Influence Model® by acting on all 3 levels:
– Level 1: Influence Energy
– Level 2: Influence Style
– Level 3: Influence Behaviour

For whom

The Positive Power & Influence® Programme is relevant for professionals at all levels! The ability to influence others is necessary in order to achieve your goals, regardless of which position you hold in your company.

Examples of common participants are: managers, project managers, specialists, graduate students, etc. Whether your goal is to have proposals approved, being more involved in important meetings, or you would like to have more confidence during discussions, there will always be someone you need to influence.

The Positive Power & Influence® Programme consists of practical exercises, so that you will be at the centre of attention most of the time – also because there are only 9 participants per trainer.

Course programme

Structure Positive Power & Influence® Programme | 3-day course

The Positive Power & Influence® Programme is a blended training programme, designed to enable you to work on your influencing skills in a very intensive way. As the director of your own learning outcomes, you define your own learning objectives, the content of your personal programme and how far you want to step outside your comfort zone to achieve the result you are looking for. This is what the training looks like:

Pre-work: Personal intake & Influence Style Questionnaire
One month before training, you’ll receive an invitation to activate your profile in the Influence Hub®, our online learning platform. There, you’ll complete your Personal Intake to define your learning objectives and the Influence Style Questionnaire, a 360-degree assessment of your influencing approach. In addition we ask you to invite (max 7) supporters from work and personal life to provide feedback as well.

Day 1: Introductions & The Influence Model®
On day 1 you will get to know the group, the trainer(s), the programme, and The Influence Model®. You will start with an assessment exercise, in which you deploy and discuss your preferred influence behaviour. Afterwards, you set up specific learning objectives for yourself. This is followed by a theoretical deep dive focusing on two of the four Influence Model® styles. You learn to use those styles effectively through short role plays and exercises.

Day 2: The Influence Model® & practical exercises
You continue with the deep dive and exploration exercises of the remaining two styles of the Influence Model®. Next up is putting together a set of exercises that are relevant to you. This could include one-to-one discussions, meeting exercises or group exercises. You will then actively tackle these exercises designed to help you achieve your learning objectives.

Day 3: Your own programme
On the final day, you’ll focus on your Critical Influence Situation (CIS)—a real-world influence challenge relevant to your work. This exercise helps you apply what you’ve learned and provides a practical foothold for future situations. You’ll also explore strategies to sustain your insights and newly trained behaviours before concluding the three-day training.

Support tools: the 28-day programme
As you return to your daily work, you’ll actively apply your learning objectives and personal exercises from the training. You’ll discuss progress and feedback with your training buddy and use the Influence Hub® for evaluation and job aids. It’s up to you to integrate your new skills into everyday practice!

In-house training

An in-house course is a tailored made training programme for you and your colleagues according to your needs. Together we look at your learning goals and whether this fits with our programme and vision.

Many organizations struggle with their teams not performing optimally. This is often caused by a lack of influence, effectiveness, and communication within the organization. As a result, they miss opportunities, waste valuable resources, and risk falling behind the competition.
At The Influence Company, we understand this issue and offer an effective solution. Our Positive Power & Influence® Programme in-house course is designed to enhance the personal effectiveness, leadership, and communication skills of your team members. With our proven approach, we help your organization to a higher level of success!

A few highlights of our Positive Power & Influence® in-house course:

Increase your team’s influence and witness them achieve their goals more easily, regardless of challenges.
Create a positive and supportive work environment where team members feel valued and can deliver their best work.
Optimize the productivity and efficiency of your organization, potentially leading to significant cost savings.
Equip your team with tangible tools and skills needed to thrive in a competitive market and achieve lasting success.

Reviews

4.6

out of 187 reviews

Great insight in the model. Good people insight =ØOÜ

Kristian Lomborg

Was really sceptical about the training but it is clear and precise and you learn a lot of things you can really apply in real life

Thibaut van Springel

I found the training very interesting and helpful. It was also very confronting, to get to know yourself and your coping mechanisms. I found ways to communicate better

Kimberley Paolino

Usefull training to really understand on how you behave and influence & to test how it is to use different styles and get comfortable with new styles

Bram Coenen

Eye-opening training. Got a lot more from it than expected. Good combination of Theory and Practice in role-play setup.

Gilles Uyttenhove

it was really an interesting training. Much better than I expected actually. It gives a lot of tools to better approach our way of working and the daily interactions with stakeholders.

Stéphanie de Groote

What were taught in the course are very practical not only for work, but also good life skills to have in general. Highly recommand

Charity Lin

I like the content, exercises, i think three days is too long. Also, i d prefer if the homework ahead of the course would be less time consuming (also for others)

Marnix Montanus

I think it is really insightful and makes you self aware of your behaviour and how you are perceived by other people. Especially putting it into practice was really helpful.

Ena Wiersma

I felt like I was learning very valuable information and social techniques from the very first day and a noticeable improvement on the third day

Carlos Arturo Svoboda

Simple but very practical framework Exercises are eye opening

Tom Guillemyn

You learn a lot about yourself objectively , which allows you to think about how would you like to respond to it

Rahul Singha

Great engaging programme, nice trainer, learned a lot overall! Well structured

Sofia Monfardini

Very eye opening and profoundly changed the way I see my communication style

Anela Petrovi

Very valuable learnings, good structure

Jess Rodgers

I give the program and our facilitator a 10. I received some great insights

Valerie Soto

Erg leerzaam, goede training met duidelijk materiaal. Leuke trainster

Eline van der Hulst

It is a very interesting program with a good balance between types of learning. The exercises help to make the theory your own and to reflect on your own influence styles and behavior. The exercise around mental block’s is insightful and confronting.

Kevin van Tilburg

Programma heeft me veel gebracht. Fijn om een toolkit aan ”styles” te leren en om te oefenen in een veilige (en leuke) omgeving. De opbouw van het programma was goed, met voldoende lucht en pauzes. Training opdrachten waren intens, maar leidde telkens weer tot nieuwe zelf-reflectie-inzichten.

Lotte Vermeer

It’s an intense training program because you immediately put into practice what you learn which reinforces the influence behaviors. I would recommend this to everyone. In fact, I really wish they would teach this stuff in college.

Daniëlla Gammon

Really insightful. This was the missing puzzle I was missing to be a effective leader.

Jyhi Shen

Very fun, practical and informative session. Let enough time to really digest and put theory into practice. Open and approachable trainer. Also enjoyed working with other colleagues.

Oliver Baggaley

practical and at times mind blowing

Vivian Stavrou

– Very useful, and great mix of theory and practice – Excellent facilitation.

Jayadev Sreekanth

Very enthusiast and keeping the audience motivated Very good organization of content Good balance theory vs practical exercise Very good ability to engage the audience and keep it very interactive Highly knowledgeable about influencing skills Used of tailor examples

Valerie Boels

We had very well prepared, organized and useful training.

Nena Radosavljevic

The training really helps to gain insight into your behaviour and possible alternative approaches that might be more effective.

Bart Meeuwissen

Really liked how you can take the theory into practice right away.

Pim Wisbrun

The IBPP programme is very deeply on content which is great when you get to more than just basics. The involvement of actors is the final test in which you can test achieved progress during the programme. Also trainer (Dennis the Mennis) is knowledgable en skilled to lead such workshops trough out the complete 3 days.

Youri Beck

The training highly helped me understand the various styles of influencing. It was also opportunity to perform exercises with the group and the actors. The training material provided will be helpful in the longer run.

Deepti Sawant

very good training, quite dense but it is on our request that we have a shorter form

Morgane Hily

Very impactful training with many occasion to practice and feel more comfortable about being out of the comfort zone. Definitely the best soft skills training I’ve had so far

Farida Bensadoun

Liked the way all comes together, gradually more challenging as we go.

Olivier Houbiers

It is a really useful training , not only for the professional also personal life

Maria Garcia

It is a training that give you tools for personal growth professionally and also private life.

Francesca Muratori

I think this is a really executable training. Great frameworks you can use immediately

Arturo Alvarado

Attentive and able to guide quickly and effectively towards goals

Alex Baird

The program was successful at teaching and providing tools to use during conversation and situation to achieve favourable outcomes.

James Jaroszewski

Really is very important to know that exist different styles of influence and the valuable use depends of the situations. Apply for both cases: personal and labour life.

Lina Maria Garcia

It give skills and opportunity to improve conversation.

Pery Rao

Big investment in time but the return is phenomenal.

Humberto Avila

This programme is really effective to improve the influence & better covince the people , also the mental block identification is the another benefit of it

Manish Dwivedi

Overall, great experience. Lots of new material and I ve been in dozens of trainings over 30 years

Frank Crisp

Influencing is an important aspect of life if you want to achieve your GOAL . It can be your family , your business , career . You need to adopt this skill to handle different situation

Yogesh Khaladkar

I did learn a lot. Very professional organized. I did like the trainers.

Martin Overhageboeck

Very practical, but also allowing for self reflection Very strong coaches: strong knowledge, very observant, with very useful and practical insights Very nice setting

Manuel Ferreira

Good to create Awareness of own style and learn ways of being more influential.

Emilio Roque

This is a good training and easy to adopt to actual case

KJ Oh Oh

Understand different way to communicate and influences. I like the content, Role play, the agenda.

Yeow Choon (Eugene) Teoh

Life changing event this week

Jason Wagner

Great content and great delivery with real life applications

Scott (Cameron) Kouns

It provides a logical structure for influence energies / behaviours when managing relationship.

Colin Patrick

1-I think it is useful.2-Lots of helpful comment from the coaches, the groups, and the team members

Lokman Li

Excellent content that was relevant to me.

Scott Pelhank

It is a highly effective program. It formalises and gives a structured approach and tool.

Chris Perry

The trainers were exceptional – friendly, extremely professional and experts in the subject. They created an environment which was interactive with Lots of coaching , examples and feedback

Jyotinder Mehta

Great training, very practical tools and methods.

Thomas Kaiser

Great personal insights gained and clear, tangible ways to take action and be better.

Becky Layana Gallagher

The training style gives opportunities for practicals, which makes this program impactful and not just content delivery. I anticipate everyone can learn something about themselves.

Sydney Baglio

This was a great course

Christopher Collins

Well done program

Kevin Johnson

New different, inovativive style to learn, right amour of insight

Silvina Lopez

Very useful, but hard work to excercise

Martin Poertner

The content and Tim is exceptional.

Humberto Caldelas

Practical and useful in the real world

Eduardo Carvalho

It was a really deep experience. Will be really helpful.

Jan Beck

Very clear and useful tool that can be applied it a wide scope of contextx

Ralph Kussman

Great experience

Howard Biery

Very interesting and useful

David Ogando

The course clearly explains each behaviour style and allows us to build common language across the company. It will be enjoyable identifying future behaviour styles with my teammates, and I see it as a way to break tension and strengthen relationships. It has made me a more effective leader.

Paul McHale

I like introduce this course to the other people that English speak well

Tony Wu

Nice content, well organised and very good content

Ralf Fuhrmann

Was a good course that kept us engaged and taught relatable topics that can be used effectively in the future.

Timothy O'Neil

Very good training to help me to know myself.I put 8 because if the training can be shorter will be great for more people join

Ben Bo

Overall the training was excellent, learning the power of influence and applying it in the session will help me both retain and utilize what I have learned

Jonathan Smith

This was very helpful to be intentional on my influence styles. I also found role plays to be incredibly helpful.

Garrett Price

Great coaching and material, good balance between theory and practical part. Awesome in terms of inclusion and networking

Crjstians Porcheddu

This could have been about a half a day shorter

Amber Fischer

Great trainers, practical insights, lots of practice

Zuzana Tuso

Program content and objectives are good, travel and logistics made this a tough program. The days are too long. The skills acquired and the active learning techniques were effective for my style of learning. The collaboration and connecting with other global leading colleagues was very impactful as we are facing the same or very similar challenges day in and day out. Having some common language to diagnosis and evaluate with each other is helpful.

Adam Brennan

Good content and learning. Too long in my opinion. Not the most efficient use of time.

Bryan Campion

So well done in a great setting with instructors that not just explained teh material well, but challenged you to get better and be more self aware

Boz Malik

Content valuable

Matt Perry

Excellent trainers.

Mark Conway

Useful tools, techniques and practice

Nicki Zahler

very very good programme and trainer

Andre Moreira

The course gave me a really good to understanding of influence structure, and to be able to use these techniques going forward. But the key was to identify areas where you need to work on, and for me it was clear

Ben Wheeler-Bailey

good training /ambiance , open minded which has helped me to better know me and what i need to improve

David Boisseau

Intense course but content was good & did not feel too mentally taxing. Good balance between verbal explanation, videos & practical exercises.

Kasia Stannard

Program was varied, the instructor was really good. Very engaging. But also a little intense. Usually i do not like roleplaying, but the instructor did it in a really good way that made me more open to do it again

Nathaniel Grant-Hines

Very insightful and fun course. It really helped me with some realizations about my style and approach to other people.

Frida Thorborg

Lively, engaging 3 days. Jan was great, really extracting the best from us & creating a productive atmosphere, where the group felt comfortable to share

Robyn Siebritz

I enjoyed working with flexibility and the role plays, the 8 is given as there is always a room for improvement. There was a bit much of repetition of the same content during the day two.

Weronika Kubiak

It is very dinamic, good energy and we get to practice imediatly after learning the concepts

Pedro Bateira

Its a good training program to become more aware of your natural communication skills and fine tune where required.

Josef Steindl

I really liked this training, because it will actually help me in my daily job to lead my team more effective. Maybe the break out room exercises were a bit to long some times.

Maurice van Arkel

Awesome content and good framework to help individuals like myslef. Really enjoyed the course and learnings

Alexander Dolley

Its just awesome and looking forward to apply the techniques which already very well explained by the trainer

Binu

Very important to do at all stages in your career

Wali Kamp

Paul McHale

Definitely 10! I never had such great time of training before (and I have a lot of trainings in my life ). The content was really well created for the purpose that it has

Anonymous

Very good We could give a few more weeks in between the first module and second module. Three weeks was to me too snort to reflect and to practice . Six weeks would be more suitable

Anonymous

Great program

Mathias Vinther

The programme is compact and intensive but a lot have been learned. It would be better if we can do more exercises after the programme or have a sort of alumni structure for those who want to join.

Anonymous

Is very useful and effective for my current role.

Leandro Loureiro

It is very well organised. The material, the people, the location. It is not a 10 because some texts need to be revised

Anonymous

Think was very good. I think the structure 2×3 days i would change. I would make 1×3, 1×1 and then a final 2 days. The main reason is that its almost too short to really practice at work and then have the final three days. I would like to have the option to do a check in day inbetween where i could get a recap and ask for help and then the final 2-3 days after that

Anonymous

It was very good and useful. It was a good mix of theory and practice. Also a good group size 7 people

Anonymous

Great

Anonymous

I think the program is great

Anonymous

Same answer as first question

Anonymous

Best training I’ve ever taken

Diederik Kuipers

It is good.

Anonymous

Could maybe be more compact… 5 days is long

Anonymous

Programme is quite intensive however no pain no gain

Anonymous

Great program.

Anonymous

Well structured, practical, all details thought through. Attentive stuff and delicious food.

Anonymous

Life changin :)

Anonymous

Lots of practice. I wish there was a follow-up or deepening course to sign up and further improve

Federico Calore

Exceeded my expectations

Anonymous

Less intensive would be better, it is really demanding trainning.

Anonymous

Super helpful and we learn useful tools in a practical way with actual case studies.

Anonymous

Super

Giriraj Mathur

After learning the powers and styles, I have realised how confusing and sometimes even messy my influential conversatins were in the past. Many of them were successfull but many times – not. Now, after the training, I understand the reason and know how to make them more effective.

Dmitry Gorbach

I have enjoyed the program, the group, the structure, the hotel. The group size is perfect

Anonymous

Great program, definitely have learnt something that i believe i will use in future

Anonymous

It is dependent on the other people in the room,so even if you bring a lot of learning to the table, if sb fron your team doesnt it does not have full effect

Anonymous

I really like the program of 3 days and 28 days of gap for evolution and 3days to review the evolution. Awesome program

Vinod Koppolu

1 less point excersises could be practiced in 1,5days vs 2. It is very beneficial to have the practice with the trainer in the room

Anonymous

Great programme. It would be nice to practicd more real life situations. Also, i had the feeling that 6 days was maybe a bit too long. Maybe we could do less of practising only in one style

Anonymous

Great exercise

Anonymous

Had some strugel with making the evaluation real

Anonymous

Everything was good except long hours at the location.

Chaitanya Badida

I think the trainer could be more present sometimes because the quality of the exercise does sometime depend on the quality of the feedback from the other participant.

Xavier Soubeyran

I think the only draw back I found was having the break in between, I think maybe having done the 5 days straight would have been less exausting but I havent done the 5 day course so I dont have a realistic comparison, it is onky a feeling I get

Anonymous

It was the best training on soft skills I had so far. The content sticks to you and it’s easy to identify behaviours, and encourages you to apply the styles consciously. I think the 2×3 programme helped by having the 28day period in between and practicing before finishing the programme.

Anonymous

Intense and rewarding. Immediate impact on my communications

Anonymous

I cannot fault the programme

Craig Pazikas

De oefeningen waren fijn, het aanbod ook. Heel fijn om zoveel te kunnen oefenen. Ik had zelf best een keer willen oefenen met acteurs (bijvoorbeeld 1 dag), om wat extremere situaties te doen. Verder was het top!

Anonymous

It is great program with great mix of theory and practice

Anonymous

The programme is really complete and the lessons learned can be used in the short and long run. The location makes the experience really complete; the hosts and everyone around are so nice and welcoming that I immediately felt at home there.

Tania Morán Luengo

Fount it extremely helpful and got great tips to continue my learning journey

Anonymous

The experience is really positive. But the place is a bit too far and for whole 5 days people have to stay inside and sitting.

Anonymous

Great programme, well designed.

Anonymous

Great program

Anonymous

It’s excellent program and could be life changing. Its not boring by any means and excellent content. Followup part some effort is taken but follow up is really important

Anonymous

Very good program.

Anonymous

A course which is a must for every professional

Martijn de Groot

It’s just really great! Well designed training

Anonymous

I really enjoyed this week, the content of this training is definetely relevant for myself and there is enough exercises to really push effectively learning

Diana Coelho

I really like the training format/material, hotel arrangements and the trainer. It helped me realize my pitfalls and mental blockages. I have already started to work on them i think i will use the knowledge i got throughout my career.

Anonymous

Its great course!

Anonymous

Eye opening and life changing

Anton Jura

Good stuff.

Anonymous

Very nice course where aclot can be learnt

Anonymous

I am very happy with the programme, with all the learnings, my personal improvement and connections that I,ve made. I am certain it will help me a lot in future.

Voichita Etesse

Great training but very intense

Anonymous

Sometimes difficult to make a role play realistic.

Anonymous

Its based on my overall experince

Anonymous

Good

Gagandeep Singh Taluja

Great program. Could have been 4 days though as I thought the wednesday and thursday could have been condensed.

Anonymous

A bit intense but excellent

Anonymous

An 8 for me is very, very high. And I am so positive due to the fact that the balance between content and practice is good. The content is short and (relatively) simple what makes it so good and the time to practice really helped.

Bas Theunissen

Great program that taught be to be self-aware of my speech (words I am using) and the various styles in which you could influence and make more of an impactful conversation

Tomas Meenhorst

3-days went by very rapid. A good combination of a short time covering the theory, while the emphasis is on practicing. First training I experienced where practicing really resulted in ‘feeling’ where to improve rather than just ‘learning’.

Rick Verdoold

practicing uncomfortable situation with tough counter part

Radomír Van ek

Prima training met duidelijk model en goeie opdrachten.

Eduard Stratenus

Great training to get valuable insights in your own communication.

Tionne Braam

a lot of roleplay, good amount of breaks, well explained theory which can be used inmediately, good to have this development days break my working mode

Arthur Reijnders

I believe that this type of training is not for everybody. Most likely the personality should fit in that type of training.

Libor Nguyen

It was a training session where I discovered something new about myself and the fact that I can approach things in a different manner, which I wasn t aware of until today.

Iulia Petrea

Learned to much from this program, it was very engaging & fun!

Miruna Moiceanu

Interesting, new knowledge, keep me interested

Daniela Ungureanu

Het is ontzettend leerzaam voor iedereen. Het is een goede mix van theorie en praktijk. Veel opdrachten oefen je in kleine groepjes en uiteindelijk met een acteur. Dit is een ervaring die je niet vaak krijgt.

Aniek Smetsers

Heeft me heel erg geholpen

Jeroen Vester

Heel plezierige mix tussen theorie en praktijk. Waarbij de oefening met de acteurs wel echt het toetje was van de maaltijd. Fijn om met een proffesional een echte case te kunnen oefenen.

Evert Siderius

Zeer duidelijke uitleg en goed om dit te koppelen met rollenspellen zodat de materie beter blijft hangen

Sara Nasri

Really interactive training, good balance between base theory and good set of practice excercises

Remon Prins

The human element and the way the whole group got together by the end of the training. It was both the context and the vibe/energy

Vasilis Trakas

Really professional trainer. Great course.

Michael Keegan

I got good self awareness of my own behaviours and where I can improve. I also learned a lot of areas where I do better.

Abhinav Adurty

I think the training was good in general. While it did not get to the level of revelations, it did het to the level of great insights in my own behaviour and a bit of confrontational analysis.

Michel Lisman

Really learned a lot and how to reflect the lessons from this training in my personal / professional life. Super nice trainer and amazing actors to practice with. Really loved the three days of training. The pace of the training with the exercises were helpful in learning-by-doing and reflecting!

Surabhi Chauhan

Bram did a really good job to set a safe environment. The exercises were so much fun and I had the best group :)

Elsa Boing

In my future role I am expected to sell this program to my associates ;-)

Marjan Hoffman

Goede training waarin iedereen de gelegenheid krijgt om te oefenen en leren

Kavita Nadram

You become very aware of your own behaviour (reflection, feedback etc.) Get more understanding of influencing methods (examples, explanation etc.) Become more versatile in your influencing methods (practicing, actors etc.)

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