- Get others on board with your plans and gain support for your ideas
- Discover powerful strategies for boosting your persuasiveness
- Explore a wide range of influencing skills to use in any scenario
Influencing skills
- LesvormKlassikaal en Virtueel
- Group size4-12 participants
- 2 daysSpread over 6 weeks
- LanguageEnglish

Target audience
At every stage of your career or level of your organisation, effective influencing skills are always a vital asset. Stop letting your good ideas go unnoticed! With the proven strategies and tactics you learn in this Influencing course, you set yourself on a path to more enriching interactions, better persuasiveness and stronger support from your colleagues and other stakeholders.
Choose in-person or online
When you register, you can choose for an in-person course at one of our venues. Or, register for an online course in the 'virtual classroom'. Which do you prefer? With the 'virtual class' we guarantee the same quality and results. You can read it on www.sn.nl/opleidingen-en-trainingen/virtual-classroom-en.
do, 18 juni 2026 Nog 2 plekken
€ 1.680,54
What you learn
Your best ideas are only as powerful as your ability to attract support from others. That’s why influencing skills are fundamental to your success in any interpersonal communication situation. This Influencing course prepares you to maximise your persuasiveness in any setting, whether it’s a presentation, meeting or informal conversation.
Throughout the Influencing training, you will work hands-on with your trainer and other course participants. You will discover a wide range of strategies and communication techniques that help you promote your ideas and win support more effectively.
Influencing skills are not about ‘tricking’ others to believe whatever you want them to. Instead, they are about positioning your thoughts in ways that allow others to see the potential, understand the mutual benefits and enthusiastically share your vision. Learn all this and more in this in-depth, interactive course.
- The continuum of ‘power - manipulation - influence’
- The basics of influencing: 10 influencing behaviours
- The power of beliefs
- The power of feelings
- Effective influencing strategies: contexts, targets and goals
- Inspiring presentations: The importance of authenticity
- The debating game: What works and what doesn't
- The power of thinking
- The power of will
- Non-verbal aspects of high-impact influencing
- Stakeholder analysis
Dates & locations
Costs
- Often fully reimbursed via your personal training budget
- Immediate results: apply it in the workplace tomorrow
- Free and no-obligation personal study advice
Training course
The price of this course is € 1.445,00 (excl. 21% VAT).
Do you pay the invoice yourself? Then you automatically get a beneficial advantage. Instead of a 21% VAT charge, you only receive a 10% fee. Your course price will then be € 1.589,50.
Course material
The price for the course materials is € 75,54 (excl. VAT). You will receive:
- Ten influencing skills (book)
- Personal licence for learning environment
Facility costs
The price for the use of the accommodation, coffee/tea and a varied lunch is € 160,00 (excl. VAT). You obviously do not pay any facility costs if you choose the online course in the 'virtual class'.
What does the training look like?
Your learning trajectory consists of a balanced mix of learning activities that you do during the two meetings, in the online learning environment, at work and at home. On the online learning environment you will find assignments that will help you before, during and after the program to increase your knowledge and skills and to apply them in practice.
Program in brief
Duration: 6 weeks
Meetings: 2 days
Time investment for self-study: approx. 12 hours
Participants
The maximum group size for the training course is 12 participants.
Certificate
On completion of the training course and subject to attendance and active participation, Schouten & Nelissen will award a certificate. Our certificates are highly regarded in the business community.
4-12 participants
2 days
Duur
Online leeromgeving
12 uur
Certificate
Training
Influencing skills
Next start date
2 spots left
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Wieneke Wegeling

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