5.2 Being influenced... and influential
A useful way to understand influence is to think about it in relation to you.
Think of a time when someone influenced you successfully to do something that you hadn’t wanted to do or that you hadn’t thought of doing. What did they want you to do? What was it about the way they influenced you that worked?
Perhaps think about some of the characteristics or attributes that this course has outlined so far.
Activity 5.1: Influencing others
Now think about an example of how you influenced someone to do something.
- What did you want them to do?
- What worked? What didn’t work?
- What was the influencing approach you used? Was it the same or different to the influencing approach that successfully influenced you?
Add your reflections to the free text box, in the Make Change Happen Plan or in your own notebook.
We hope that this gets you thinking about your personal influencing approach and the attributes you have for influencing others. It may also help you to continue to identify the characteristics that you want to strengthen in yourself in order to build your skills and abilities to influence others to make change happen.
5.1 Introduction to Unit 5: Spheres of influence
