An Advanced Leadership Skills Accelerator 

Strategic Influence

Leaders must use their critical thinking skills to analyze, act, and influence within their organization to promote a competitive advantage.

Strategic Influence provides leaders with a real-work learning experience to explore a challenge, apply new skills, develop a prototype solution, and leave prepared to teach others those skills.

The series includes seven virtual sessions and uses The Bridge Innovate® Digital Studio, powered by Sprintbase™, for virtual collaboration.

Skills You’ll Learn

Business Insight Analysis

Minimum of 10 participants. Volume & non-profit pricing are available.

FORMAT

DURATION

CONTACT

Virtual Course

Seven 1-hour Sessions

Key Takeaways 

  • Build alignment, unity, and an overall sense of team cohesion using The Five Behaviors®.

  • Build strategic influencing skills to lead proactive vs. reactive solutions.

  • Apply the tools of creative problem solving to form prototype solutions.

  • Learn the fundamentals of leading organizational change. 

  • Be prepared to teach the concepts of strategic influence to others.

  • Takeaway a Strategic Influence toolkit.

  • Access to Sprintbase™ for virtual collaboration.

  • Earn a verified digital badge.

Modules

  • This module is designed to bring together empirical data with empathy data to identify insights and opportunities. Participants practice using these tools:

    The 5 Whys  |  Interview Planners & Summaries  |  Insights Map

  • This module is designed to represent several tools for creativity with immediate opportunities for application. Participants practice using these tools:

    How Might We?  |  Extreme Users  |  Crazy Eights

  • This module is designed around participants applying concepts from the ExperienceChange™ Model to the solution(s) they had created in the previous module. Participants practice using these tools:

    Stakeholder Map / Engagement Map  |  Force Field Analysis  |  Change Plan

  • This module is designed to give participants the chance to “teach-back” their new skills to the entire cohort. Participants are tasked with creating and presenting a portfolio of their learnings and solutions — designed using their learned skills and tools from the Business Insights, Creative Problem Solving, and Leading Change modules.

Stakeholder Engagement

Change Management

Creative Problem Solving

Team Alignment

Solution Design

  • “The Strategic Influence Workshop is hands down one of the most interesting trainings I've participated in. It was well worth the time and (I assume) financial investment. I believe that I will be receiving the ROI in my career for a long time!”

    – Christy McDonald, Unum

  • This program was most effective because of the interactive nature - I highly recommend this to anyone who is a part of facilitating change in their organization.

    - Laura Mildenberger, Unum

Earn and Showcase Your Badge

Upon completing the Strategic Influence Series, you'll receive your Badge of Completion, delivered via email as a downloadable PDF. Your badge is designed for easy uploading and sharing on LinkedIn, allowing you to showcase your strategic influence expertise.