Influence Without Authority
9.4
(45 ratings)
2 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Principles, processes, skills and frameworks to influence people, have more impact and grow in your career.
9.4
(45 ratings)
2 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Principles, processes, skills and frameworks to influence people, have more impact and grow in your career.
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Satish Mummareddy
PM leader at Meta, Yelp, Yahoo. Led consumer, biz, ads and integrity products.
Course overview
Create an influence plan by understanding human psychology, organizational dynamics and political styles.
Improve core interpersonal skills to amplify your influence.
Develop Emotional Intelligence and Positive Intelligence to ensure great outcomes in high stakes situations.
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Strong Product thinkers Product Manager - Designer - Engineer - User Researcher - Data Scientist who want to increase their influence.
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People who encountered career obstacles as a result of not having an extensive influence skills toolkit.
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People who feel others with similar hard skills are rising faster and want a roadmap to improving their influence / soft skills.
Understand the differences between political styles ranging from cynic to machiavellian to leader. Embrace the mindset for Influence Without Authority to operate in a high integrity savvy manner.
Learn to build an influence map of your organization, identify incentive structures for individual people & teams, and develop a plan that accounts for these diverse needs.
Understand how people form opinions, the shortcuts the human mind takes in decision making, the need for humans to be right and proven processes for changing minds.
Learn to develop a plan that includes the right mix of 1:1s, small & large group meetings, async feedback on documents, and review prep check-ins with leads to drive strong outcomes.
Develop the right mindset, leverage key decision frameworks and include balanced advocacy to influence individuals, small groups and large organizations.
Practical exercises to build trustful relationships, listen deeply, speak precisely, write collaboratively and negotiate effectively.
Toolkit to manage your emotions and navigate other people's negative emotions to produce positive outcomes. Toolkit to manage your psychology, stay in the game and produce outstanding results.
Leave the course with an operational plan to achieve your influence outcomes (big rocks, small pebbles and daily sand) and a growth plan for your influence skills.
9.4
(45 ratings)
Product Manager, Meta
Sr. Prouduct Manager, Amazon
Sr. Technical Program Manager, T-Mobile
Senior Manager, Product Analytics & Data Science, PayPal
Sr. Product Manager, Dell Technologies
Over his 20 year career as a product & engineering leader, Satish had led & scaled products at Meta, Yelp, Yahoo and VideoMining. At Meta, Satish led teams building content & product recommendations, teen safety & well-being, civic engagement and advertising products. Previously, he led the services verticals and self-serve ads businesses at Yelp, and supported video platforms & personalization at Yahoo. Satish started his career as a computer vision researcher at a start up building AI driven products after graduating from Penn State University.
After switching from an engineering leadership role to an IC PM role 11 years ago Satish realized that he needed to develop skills to Influence Without Authority. He is sharing the playbook of principles, processes, skills and frameworks developed over the last decade so that you can improve your influence skills at a 10x faster rate with 10% of the effort.
8:00AM - 12:00PM Pacific Time
11:00am - 3:00pm Eastern Time
Optional Q &A: 12:00PM - 1PM Pacific Time. Recording will be available.
8:00AM - 12:00PM Pacific Time
Optional Q &A: 12:00PM - 1PM Pacific Time. Recording will be available.
This is an intensive weekend-only seminar for folks with busy calendars during the weekdays. The sessions will be recorded if you want to re-watch them.
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Understanding Political Styles
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Embracing Influence Without Authority Mindset
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Understanding Organizational Dynamics and Incentives
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Building Relationships and Reputation
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Understanding Decision Complexity
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Choose the Right Influence Models and Processes
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Understand the Human Communication Model
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Improve Interpersonal Communication Skills
09
Strengthen Emotional Intelligence
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Cultivate Positive Intelligence
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Integrate into an influence strategy and skills growth plan
Active learning, not passive watching
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you