Influence Without Authority
4.8
(119 ratings)
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
(119 ratings)
2 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Principles, processes, skills and frameworks to influence people, have more impact and grow in your career.
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:
01
Strong Product thinkers Product Manager - Designer - Engineer - User Researcher - Data Scientist who want to increase their influence.
02
People who encountered career obstacles as a result of not having an extensive influence skills toolkit.
03
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
Interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
37 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
Projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Influence Without Authority
Course syllabus
4.8
(119 ratings)
What students are saying
See what people are saying
Product Manager, Meta
Sr. Product Manager, Amazon
Senior Manager, Product Analytics & Data Science, PayPal
Sr. Software Engineer, Google
Sr. Technical Program Manager, T-Mobile
Sr Staff ML Engineer, Adobe
Product Manager, Square
Sr. Product Manager, Dell Technologies
Product Manager, One Football
Design Leader, ex-Intuit
UX Researcher, Microsoft
Staff Product Manager, Bumble
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.
Course schedule
14 hours total
Saturday, Jan 20
8:00AM - 4:00PM Pacific Time
11:00am - 7:00pm Eastern Time
Recording will be available.
Sunday, Jan 21
8:00AM - 4:00PM Pacific Time
11:00am - 7:00pm Eastern Time
Recording will be available.
Learning is better with cohorts
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