Influence 247 is a highly results-oriented program, where leaders, managers and executives learn the art of influencing their teams to increase employee engagement, and transform their performance at work. 

Thousands of executives from over 13 countries have benefited from the Influence 247 system, being equipped with a roadmap to accelerate the process of influence and win people over.

This programme includes the resource book "Win People Over - 75 Simple and Powerful Ways to Influence Anyone", authored by Influence Co’s co-founder and director, Karen Leong.

Objective

You will learn to: 

• Identify your inner resources, how to strengthen them, and leverage them to lead yourself and influence others more effectively and naturally
• Gain insights into your natural influencing style and identify others’ influencing profiles
• Enhance your versatility in influencing people, regardless of their position, profile or personality types
• Master the framework intuitive influencers use to win people over effortlessly
• Re-energise the way in which you engage and manage (internal and external) stakeholders
• Obtain the keys to building rapport and developing deeper connection rapidly
• Takeaway simple yet powerful steps to increase likeability and respect
• Sustain easy, natural conversations of influence in all situations
• Cultivate and maintain a winning attitude 
• Walk-away with a personalised action plan that helps you achieve desired results

Outline

Laying the Foundation

• Setting personal expectations and desired results
• Realising the advantages of being an effective influencer and how you can use influence to enhance productivity and profitability
• Developing a simple, effective personal action plan to achieve results

Self-Awareness & Self-leadership

• Identifying your inner skills and resources
• Simple, yet powerful techniques to leverage these resources
• The power of perception and how it impacts reality

Pillars of Influence

• Understanding the two pillars of influence
• Learning the Influencing profiles, identify your default style, and how to recognize them in others
• Developing the versatility to influence different personality and behavior types

The Influence Process

• Understanding the mechanics of yielding influence effortlessly and effectively
• Mastering the art of making favorable first impressions every time
• Learning powerful conversations that build rapport rapidly and deepen emotional connection

Leveraging the 5 Cs to Exert Influence Effortlessly

• Learning how to enter the zone of maximum trust
• Enhancing likeability and respect through simple actions
• Gaining the versatility to influence a variety of personalities

Stakeholder Engagement

• Identifying the stakeholders we need to influence
• Gaining clarity on how to influence individual stakeholders most effectively
• Increasing engagement by nurturing rewarding relationships 

Making it Real

• Applying the influence process to enhance effectiveness in real scenarios
• Evolving powerful approaches to current work-life challenges
• Achieving immediate wins that open the door to big results

Review and Reflection

• Gaining clarity and a wider perspective 
• Honing your confidence in unleashing the influencer within
• Setting a new direction - walk out with a simple action plan that resonates with you

Who should attend

Methodology

INFLUENCING STYLES PROFILING TOOL
The 2-day program includes the Influencing Styles Profiling Tool that reveals your dominant influencing style and shows you how versatile you are in switching across the four influencing styles. Understanding these influencing styles will also enable you to better identify them in others. This, in turn, will enable you to exert influence more effectively and effortlessly.

Enhance your sphere of influence
Influencing styles are not personality profiles. We are not limited by our default influencing style. And the influencing styles profiling tool will reveal how we are more versatile than we think. It enhances self-awareness, and we can now select the influencing style that works best for any particular person or situation. The greater your appreciation of the different ways, the more easily and intuitively you will be able to influence people.

You will learn:

• Primary characteristics of your natural influencing style
• The likely dark side
• Situations where you thrive in
• Situations where you need to be more alert / aware
• Opportunities where you can be more influential

OUR ACTION BASED LEARNING METHODOLOGY

• The foundation of all our programmes is a unique Action-based Learning Methodology designed to produce lasting, personal, relevant, and actionable realisations.
• The Action-based Learning Methodology has four distinct modes of knowledge production: theoretical knowledge, technical skills, experiential encounters, and reflection and realisation.
• The use of these multiple methods to engage and challenge participants generates the buy-in, commitment, and connection needed to ensure sustainable transformation, and thus, the increase in performance.

BLEND OF COACHING AND TRAINING
Our unique action-based methodology enables participants, not just to expand their horizons by seeing other concepts, but also to identify Simple-Repetitive-Visible actions, which they can use to implement the concepts, at work and in their personal lives.

Testimonial

"Brought practical actions to the forefront of our thinking.  Enabled many ‘ah ha’ moments."
Jennifer Hewit, Director, Credit Suisse, Singapore

"The presentation inspired me. The stories really touched me."
Chan Young Lee, Proctor & Gamble, Korea

"The F.R.E.E. Process is very actionable. The course was well structured, clearly aimed and well delivered."
Amy Liu, Caterpillar Inc. China

"Perfect 10. Engaging and effective. Never a dull moment!"
Lois Changi Airport Singapore 

10/10, Simple, structured process and technique.
Keppel Land Singapore

Karen Leong's Profile

Featured in the Ten Influential Professional Speaker in Singapore (Business Review)

Women's Icon Award 2017 by Business Excellence and Research Group

TEDx Speaker

Karen Leong is an authority on influence and is highly regarded for her transformational keynotes and programmes. Her Influence 247 system provide practical, powerful solutions to win people over, a much needed skill for success and fulfilment.

A TEDx speaker, and the author of the book 'Win People Over - 75 Simple and Powerful Ways to Influence Anyone', Karen was featured as one of the ten influential professional speakers in Singapore by the Singapore Business Review. Karen was also honoured with the Women Icons Award 2017 by the Business Excellence and Research group. A regular feature on television, radio and print, Karen is on the Channel News Asia’s panel as an Influence and Body Language expert, where she analysed the 2016 US Presidential Debates "live" in the studio.

Karen is a chartered accountant with a decade-­long corporate career spanning audit, consulting and corporate education. She specialised in business consulting and IPO projects with KPMG and KPMG Consulting in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Karen is the master trainer for the Improving Human Performance certification program of the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD). She is also certified as a Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP).

Karen is a much sought-­after keynote speaker, having inspired thousands, including CEOs and senior management across diverse industries. She is also a champion for women's leadership, and has been engaged by forward looking organisations to achieve greater results with their women leaders.

Karen is the co-founder of a premier learning and development organisation that operates in 13 countries and 4 languages. She has been profiled in Channel U’s CEO series and Vulcan Post’s "10 Fearless Singaporean female entrepreneurs who made it happen"

Mukul Deva's Profile

An alumnus of La Martiniere College, Lucknow, the National Defence Academy, Pune, and the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun, Mukul was commissioned as an officer in the SIKH LIGHT INFANTRY of the Indian Army in 1981.

Honing his leadership skills in the crucible of combat, with a decade of operational service in India and overseas, Mukul then turned his attention to the corporate battlefield, and to his first love - writing. His entrepreneurial journey resulted in two companies that have touched thousands of lives in a dozen countries. And his books, fiction and non-fiction, in five different genres, have been applauded and appreciated the world over.

What truly drives Mukul is his passion for helping others live up to their potential. Hence, acquiring certification in coaching from the Henley Business School, University of Reading, U.K. Mukul, continued his journey as The Change Maker. He is also a highly sought after and acclaimed Executive Coach, professional mentor, and facilitator.

His life mantra is If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.