Influential Communication Programme®

In detail

What you will learn

Get the most out of your difficult situation
How do you gain buy-in for your ideas and proposals? Pushing too hard can lead to conflict, while avoiding a stance may cost you your goals. This program helps you achieve your objectives effectively while considering others’ perspectives.

In this foundational training, you’ll explore the essence of communication and its impact. Through personal feedback on your verbal and non-verbal cues, you’ll refine your style for greater clarity and influence. The scientifically backed Influence Model® provides insights into diverse communication approaches, helping you adapt to different situations and audiences.

This training centers on pausing your agenda to engage fully in the present moment, fostering collaboration and more productive conversations.

Influential Communication Programme® equips you to:

Understanding your own communication style.
Being able to notice and follow up on non-verbal signals.
Effectively switching to other communication styles.
Communicating beyond the content (your own objective) and truly connect to a conversational partner.

More key takeaways of the Influential Communication Programme®:

You can shift your communication style to what the situation requires in the present moment (interventions).
Your ability to connect with your conversational partner is enhanced.
You will learn the basics of the Influence Model®:
Level 1: Influence Energy
Level 2: Influence Style

For whom

The Influential Communication 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 Influential Communication 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.

Dates and locations

Start Date

Monday 08-12-2025

End Date

Tuesday 09-12-2025

Location

Amsterdam

, The Netherlands

Language

English

Course programme

Structure Influential Communication Programme® | 2 days course

Pre-work: Personal intake & Influence Style Inventory (ISI)
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 Inventory, 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: Assessment & the Influence Model®
On day 1 you will get to know the group, the trainer(s), and the programme. You will start with an assessment exercise, in which you deploy your current, natural influence behaviour. This is followed by a theoretical discussion of the Influence Model®. Afterwards, you set up specific learning objectives for yourself. This is followed by a theoretical deep dive focusing on all the Influence Styles. You learn to use those styles effectively through short role plays and exercises.

Day 2: ISI analysis & practice in the “communication flight simulator’’
You get the tools to analyse your ISI assessment: What signals about your communication behaviour do you get from your graph? The rest of the day, you will be using your new insights in our “communication flight simulator”. Through exercises, role plays and a personal case from real life, you experiment with different ways of communicating and behaviour. This not only gives you insight into a new communication palette, but also allows you to experience how it feels to be more effective.

House of Influence
Join us at the House of Influence for a focused, distraction-free training experience. Step away from daily demands and fully immerse yourself in what truly matters. Enjoy the Influential Communication Programme® at our House of Influence or abroad for the complete experience.

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 Influential Communication 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!

Why your team should follow the Influential Communication Programme®:

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

I learned alot about myself and improvement steps to be made on my part in my styles of communication. Acknowledge people’s emotions, active listening-people want to be heard. Take note of emotions and understand why they are hurting to create a positive rapport and allow people to be open.

Selina

Was worth the time and effort. Gave me clear insights on how to achieve my developmental goal of self-reflection, listening and ability to switch styles

Soheila Rouhi

This programme has given me a lot of practical tools to practice in real life settings. I feel like I’ve gained a lot from it and I look forward to trying it out.

Garance

Good balance of theory and practical explanation.

Jinal

Would recommend

Anonymous

Intense but well balanced in terms of breaks and work

Anonymous

It is a real eye opner training for me.Many thanks.

Anonymous

I enjoyed it more than I thought

Aarish Amirali

Good balance of theory and practical explanation.

Jinal Tandel

It works! Not much to improve. Very intensive. Location and more free time after the training would be nice

Anonymous

Great programme. First day is quite long and would possibly be better spread over evenly

Anonymous

Very intense training. But helps a lot with finding ways how to improve missing parts.

Anonymous

Would recommend to anyone, i think everyone could learn and take something away from this course.

Anonymous

Loved the programme

Anonymous

Super insightful

Anonymous

Really helpful

Anonymous

Very good program with lots of personal development. Practise is very important

Anonymous

Awareness increases by having the model as a language to discuss and think about how you do things. Emphasis on the hands-on practicing is also much appreciated.

Anonymous

Great program but intense for the time period.

Anonymous

I have not attended a ‘humanities’ course for a while and this makes me interested in exploring this skill set further.

Anonymous

Insightful training for different communication styles

Anonymous

Everyone should do it. The world would be a better place.

Anonymous

The start was a bit slow. I am missing a public speaking part because thats quite important for being influential right.

Floor Steenkamp

Nice group, good content, good teachers

Anonymous

Great but sometimes lacking more details and elaborating on power relations and hidden agendas and motives during conversation

Anonymous

I would have needed the longer programming and would have liked more opportunity to practice.

Marciano Johns

It took me a bit to connect all the dots but by the end I felt more confidence in my communication and in speaking out

Anonymous

Very valuable content. As some point it felt a bit long and i wonder if it could be condensed.

Anonymous

It is a very good one but not yet to the 10

Anonymous

I learned a lot and gained confidence in my influential style.

Anonymous

I would prefer to give more time to process all the information we received. Mayby we could have 2 sessions in different weeks. The company could provide videos about the different style

Anonymous

Good structure and balance between theory and practice

Anonymous

Its a very nice and intensive program. But i expected to have more tips on how to combine styles and more opportunities to recieve personal feedback from the trainer

Anonymous

I can’t agree more

Syedhamjath Syedmansur

Great program, and really helpful for different situations

Anonymous

This programme has given me a lot of practical tools to practice in real life settings. I feel like I’ve gained a lot from it and I look forward to trying it out.

Garance Vidart

All good! Great programme with a lot of exercises and not so much theory. Great food. The noise from the constructions was a bit annoying.

Anonymous

Reallt good, valuable, enjoyable. One of the best trainings I’ve had, but there is always room to improve, isn’t it? ;)

Anonymous

Very useful!

Anonymous

It is worthy to take if one wants to improve communication

Anonymous

A lot of information but no overload and only sending information. Very interactive and that keeps me interested

Anonymous

It feels like I gathered some very fundamental communcation knowledge. Excited to put it into practice.

Anonymous

Its a nice refresh from the 5 days course but its a little packed

Anonymous

I think everybody could benefit from this program in daily and work life

Anonymous

I feel that I learnt a lot from it. I do not feel that I can give it a 10 yet as I have not yet seen what is it’s long term impact. My score could potentially be higher (or lower of course ) depending on its impact over the longer term .

Anonymous

very nice with very tight schedule.

Anonymous

Very complete

Anonymous

Already answered om the first question

Anonymous

Overall Usefull

Anonymous

Loved it

Anonymous

More comprehensive and actionable than other courses done in the past.

Anonymous

Was worth the time and effort. Gave me clear insights on how to achieve my developmental goal of self-reflection, listening and ability to switch styles

Gokulram Krishnamurthy

Great content superbly presented !

Anonymous

Verybeneficial

Anonymous

I am glad i attended this program

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