September 2024
Beginner
109 pages
1h 26m
English
Overview
In an organisational context, you need to be able to influence well in a variety of situations. These can include but are not limited to:
- Networking and developing good interpersonal relationships;
- Leading and inspiring others;
- Communicating and gaining buy-in for your ideas;
- Promoting change;
- Developing a high-performing team;
- Negotiating with other people;
- Building successful working relationships;
- Navigating the complexities of hybrid/remote working; and
- Successful negotiating.
This book is very practical. It features case studies of successful influencing and persuading in different industries, including the cyber security sector.
It also contains advice, exercises, activities and diagnostics to help you improve your influencing skills.
Influencing is a soft skill that is applicable to leaders, managers, project managers and team members.
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.