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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Influencing People by University of Michigan

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3,909 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

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.

MF

Jan 21, 2016

Really useful course! I learnt many new ways to influence others and protect myself from other people's influence.

P.S The cover is a deal-breaker. I joined this course after watching the intro.

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By Héctor G M

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Dec 14, 2015

Useful knowledge

By MOHD E B B

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Apr 29, 2020

Helpfull course

By Syed M A A

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Dec 15, 2015

good knowledge!

By Rajat S

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Jul 21, 2020

Nice course .

By Tiago C

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Sep 18, 2016

Interesting.

By PK D G

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Jan 1, 2016

Good course.

By Deleted A

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Dec 30, 2015

Good course.

By Tin Z P

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Sep 2, 2020

Thank you

By Deleted A

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Dec 28, 2015

good one.

By Shina

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Aug 10, 2019

Excelle

By Emmanuel J

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Feb 8, 2016

GOOD.

By Santiago D M B

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Jan 5, 2016

Exce

By Priya D

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Dec 10, 2015

B

By Quincy P

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Jan 10, 2016

I thought all of the information was great but at times the course was just very bland especially in terms of presentation. Also, the title is somewhat misleading and the presumptions that the course creators make about its students assume I am a business guy sitting in an office or a part of some team which makes the activities that you HAVE to do in order to pass the course a bit harder to complete. This is good because if what the activity desn't really apply to your situation it makes good practice to imagine a situation - not soo imaginative the task is incredibly easy - and apply what you've learned. However, as I've said, if what you're being asked to do is harder to apply than the activity in many ways isn't all that practical. I prefer Cumulative tests as well because they assess everything you've learned and whether you've retained the information or not.

By Roshni

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Jan 9, 2018

The psychology aspect of this course was interesting and applicable, however, it could probably be condensed. The week one content could probably be half the length and still be just as effective. If you are not taking this for a certificate, I would recommend fast forwarding or scanning the transcripts for week one and focusing on weeks 2 and 3.

By Deleted A

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Sep 28, 2016

Adequate information to grasp on. Learn something useful. But the videos are a bit boring that sometimes I have a hard time to carry on. Hope to share more interesting video examples and reading materials. Good effort but spice up the video a bit with salient stuff instead of pure talking and notes would be good.

By Camila B

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Jun 21, 2016

I found the course was unfortunately slightly dry - I was expecting more from the videos. The speakers know their information and showcase the different types of power and influence you can exert on people and they can exert on you, however, I believe it could have had more real world examples.

By Sreenivasan K

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Mar 31, 2016

Good concepts, very useful tips shared in this course.

I reduced 1 star because, it has very less illustrations. Interactions, live examples could have been added in the content.

Especially the video background is not good. It matters because, it's distracting while listening the class.

By EFTHYMIOS K

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Jan 3, 2016

The only reason I give 3 stars is because there were no pdf documents of the lectures. Being able to check back notes fast is important and very helpful and I can't see why they are not given.

Other than that the course content was very interesting and fascinating. Well done on that!!

By Tilman J

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Jul 31, 2016

Interesting but basic course. Mostly a series of tips on how to take advantage of human susceptibility to persuasion. The last week, concerning how to resist attempts to manipulate you, was probably the most important.

By Ju M

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Dec 18, 2019

As mentioned for other courses of this Specialisation, lecturers are far too long when they could be streamlined a bit more to keep the content concise. This is overall a better course than others until here.

By Natasa N

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Dec 22, 2015

This course remind me so much of course done by Wesleyan University - Social Psychology, by great profssor Scott Plous.

By Edgar R M R

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Feb 11, 2016

El curso está en Inglés y solamente tiene subtítulos en Inglés.

By USMAN A B M

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Apr 28, 2020

such a good course to attend.

By Sudhanva H

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Apr 17, 2017

Good Content