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Influence Without Authority

4.8 (159)

2 Days

Cohort-based Course

Principles, processes, skills and frameworks to influence people, have more impact and grow in your career.

Influence Without Authority

4.8 (159)

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

Ex - Meta Yelp Yahoo. Led consumer, biz, ads & integrity products. Coached x0

Satish Mummareddy

Ex - Meta Yelp Yahoo. Led consumer, biz, ads & integrity products. Coached x0

Course overview

Develop an actionable strategy to become an influential leader.

Course Outcomes

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.

Course Syllabus

How to embrace a high integrity savvy influence model

How to account for organizational dynamics and power structures

How to leverage human psychology to change minds

How to use processes to build alignment and deep commitment

How to use principled decision frameworks to drive complex tradeoffs

How to improve core interpersonal skills

How to strengthen Emotional Intelligence and Positive Intelligence

Build a custom plan to achieve your influence outcomes and grow your skills

Format

Blend of principles/frameworks combined with application to your scenarios in breakout groups

In-class & take home exercises to practice interpersonal skills

Worksheets & exercises to develop emotional intelligence & positive intelligence

Templates to develop organization understanding and improve relationships

Templates for influence strategy

Your Peers

Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, Data Scientists, User Researchers from 50+ companies including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Adobe, Square, Lyft, Uber, PayPal, Instacart, Grammarly, Discord have taken this course and found it life changing.

Who is this course for:

Strong Product thinkers Product Manager - Designer - Engineer - User Researcher - Data Scientist who want to increase their influence.

People who encountered career obstacles as a result of not having an extensive influence skills toolkit.

People who feel others with similar hard skills are rising faster and want a roadmap to improving their influence / soft skills.

Strong Product thinkers Product Manager - Designer - Engineer - User Researcher - Data Scientist who want to increase their influence.

People who encountered career obstacles as a result of not having an extensive influence skills toolkit.

People who feel others with similar hard skills are rising faster and want a roadmap to improving their influence / soft skills.

What you will get out of this course

How to embrace a high integrity savvy influence model

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.

How to account for organizational dynamics and power structures

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.

How to leverage human psychology to change minds

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.

How to use processes to build alignment and deep commitment

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.

How to use principled decision frameworks to drive complex tradeoffs

Develop the right mindset, leverage key decision frameworks and include balanced advocacy to influence individuals, small groups and large organizations.

How to improve core interpersonal skills

Practical exercises to build trustful relationships, listen deeply, speak precisely, write collaboratively and negotiate effectively.

How to strengthen Emotional Intelligence and Positive Intelligence

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.

Build a custom plan to achieve your influence outcomes and grow your skills

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.

This course includes

6 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

34 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Course syllabus

Week 1

Feb 22—Feb 23

Live Events

Feb
22
IWA - Day 1
Sat 2/224:00 PM—12:00 AM (UTC)
Feb
23
IWA - Day 2
Sun 2/234:00 PM—12:00 AM (UTC)

Worksheet & Course Logistics

2 items

Course Intro

2 items

A1. Human Communication Model

2 items

A2. Presence

2 items

A3. Listening Deeply & Speaking Precisely

2 items

A4. Difficult Conversations, Negotiation, Charisma

2 items

A5. Positive Intelligence

2 items

A6. Emotional Intelligence

2 items

B1. Influence Styles

2 items

B2. Influence Without Authority Definition & Mindset

2 items

B3. Organizational Dynamics

2 items

B4. Relationships & Reputation

5 items

B5. Decision Complexity

2 items

B6. Influence Process - 1:1

2 items

B7. Influence Process for Large Groups

2 items

Q&A

1 item

Post-course

Bonus Events

Feb
28
[Bonus] Check In 1: Discussion, Q&A & Deliberate Practice
Fri 2/283:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Mar
7
[Bonus] Check In 2: Discussion, Q&A & Deliberate Practice
Fri 3/73:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Mar
14
[Bonus] Check In 3: Discussion, Q&A & Deliberate Practice
Fri 3/142:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Mar
28
[Bonus] Check In 4: Discussion, Q&A & Deliberate Practice
Fri 3/282:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)

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Meet your instructor

Satish Mummareddy

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.

See what people are saying

This course should be mandatory tech onboarding for everyone especially Product People (PMs, TL, UX, DS) at FAANG. Satish breaks down complex topics and makes them approachable and even attractive. He does not talk about fancy new techniques but practical things you can do everyday to turbocharge your PM and tech career.

Product Manager, Meta

Satish brings a tons of clarity on the topic of "Influence at work" by sharing the effective frameworks, knowledge and real examples. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who are interested in advancing their careers and navigating organizational dynamics.

Sr. Product Manager, Amazon

This course goes deep into soft skill areas that most professionals seek or need help on but find very hard and time-consuming to get clear insights, methods and frameworks. Satish has thoughtfully put together content and narrative that elegantly deconstructs a given aspect and provides practical guidance. I highly recommend this course!

Senior Manager, Product Analytics & Data Science, PayPal

Every company should invest in sending their employees of all levels to this workshop. The hands-on exercises were some of the best segments of the course. Satish modeled a great example by using personal stories to help drive home many abstract concepts that might have been really hard to understand without the help of concrete examples.

Sr. Software Engineer, Google

Satish did a great job preparing and delivering this course and the content in it. All categories contribute to techniques and toolkits that allow us to build the competency to influence without being in the position of authority was very carefully selected and extensively discussed during the course. I am glad I signed up for this.

Sr. Technical Program Manager, T-Mobile

Since I am an individual contributor and not a product manager, I was initially unsure if the course will be the right use of my time. After going through the course I feel it helped me understand multiple principles/concepts/frameworks that will be extremely useful for my work in influencing others and bringing the right outcome for my company.

Sr Staff ML Engineer, Adobe

The course was spot on in addressing my current challenges. By the end of the course there were clear and actionable areas to get started. The intricate details on how to maintain inter personal relationships was eye opening, which is the foundation for influencing without authority.

Product Manager, Square

One of the best investments of time and money. Satish's course has opened my eyes to how much agency I have in my control. His teachings are sure to help you all the way from the next Monday to the next decade!

Sr. Product Manager, Dell Technologies

This course is a lifetime investment. The content is authentic, humanized, simplified and easy to follow. Satish gives examples of his experience navigating influence which makes it easy to relate and enables one to identify a similar experience in the workplace. As a PM, I feel empowered to drive my career forward with the tools and frameworks.

Product Manager, One Football

Satish skillfully dissects the behind-the-scenes structures and interactions at most organizations and equips you with actionable tools and frameworks to navigate them in a mutually beneficial way. But it's not all theory. He makes this all accessible by connecting the dots by sharing real-world examples that were profoundly insightful, too.

Design Leader, ex-Intuit

Satish is a great leader and teacher. The material he wove together for this course was truly outstanding, and I found his approach to navigating organizational dynamics extremely insightful and pragmatic.

UX Researcher, Microsoft

Amazing content for someone who is looking to up level their influencing skills both in personal and professional lives. It served as mirror for me and made me realise my blind spots when it comes to influencing people around you in ethical way. Satish's energy and engagement was superb during the course.

Staff Product Manager, Bumble

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