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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Influencing People by University of Michigan

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4,094 ratings

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

JW

Feb 5, 2018

The course has good theory structure and real-life assignments that will provoke you to apply immediately what you have learned. I enjoyed the lecture's clear pronunciation. It is easy to follow.

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.

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By Danielle T

Apr 25, 2021

I enjoyed this course very much and the information learned is very useful. The only change I would make is to switch up the format of the course. Instead of having all of the content be delivered in videos, I would like more articles, etc.

By Matthew L

Dec 10, 2021

It's a good course, but some of the submissions i've read seems to be lazy or missing the point. I think better examples could help them that SALES to a large group of people does not equal influencing

By Oliver M

Jun 30, 2021

A helpful and insightful course which provides the student with a number of effective tools to improve their power and influence in the workplace.

By Igor G

Mar 6, 2025

Great insight in Influence technics. For a senior PM like me this was a great repetition. woth spending the time

By Hetal J

Dec 5, 2022

This course provides information on various tactics one can use to influence with some practical examples

By KAOUKABI O

Feb 25, 2022

Coursera helped me more and more to develop my knowledge and I am happy to be a member of Coursera :)

By Gaurab M

Dec 29, 2021

Content is very good. Videos can be made a little more animated & visually engaging.

By PARVIN A

Feb 11, 2021

I had an interesting experiment and realized some important moments. Thanks!

By MIRIAN C C R

Aug 28, 2024

Conteudo bem estruturado com exemplos bastante didáticos.

By Sandy A B

Jan 26, 2021

Very nice and interesting course, I highly recommend it

By Shiakh A A

Mar 8, 2022

Highly recommended

By Pritesh N M

Jan 22, 2021

It was good course

By Saumya C

Mar 29, 2022

very informative

By MARISA S

Nov 7, 2024

menginspirasi

By Ana M d C R

Aug 23, 2021

Ana Maria

By Ajay K

Aug 17, 2023

Good

By Rodrigue N

Oct 31, 2022

Bon

By MANEA M A

Jul 19, 2021

GOOD

By Shoeb

Mar 16, 2021

Good

By Simona D C

Aug 13, 2021

4,5

By Abdulmohsen A

Sep 26, 2021

.

By Brianna K

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

Jan 23, 2022

good but basic, not ideal for professionals

By Pavel V

Dec 5, 2023

Not enough practical examples