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Please join us for the professional development workshop "Using Influence Strategies and Approaches to Attain Your Work Goals," presented by Mike Cardus, leadership and organizational consultant, on Thursday, November 7, from 10:00 a.m. to noon in Chase Hall 109.

To complete your tasks at work, you must depend on other people (many of whom you do not have direct authority over) to supply you with the necessary information to complete your work on time and on budget, and to ensure a quality product or outcome. As you work to complete a project, goal, or task, you must sometimes influence multiple people with different roles on and off campus. Influence can be defined as the use of personal energy to create an impact on, redirect, or change the outcome of a situation; the same influence approach does not work with everyone. This workshop will help you to learn a variety of influence approaches (or strategies) and allow you to identify how to choose which approach will be most effective.

During this workshop, you will accomplish the following:

• Understand five influence strategies and determine when it is best to apply each.
• Learn how to develop profiles for those you need to influence and how to alter your approach to increase the odds that your idea will be heard and accepted.
• Share stories of how you have influenced others and what worked and did not work; listen to and learn various influence approaches from others' stories.

Light snacks will be provided. Please register through the Workshop Registration System.