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Managers and leaders use power every day, many feel reluctant to use it or even to admit that it is part of their job. However, using power effectively is an important skill and by developing influencing techniques it can lead to increased effectiveness in a team.

This course describes the sources of power and strategies and assesses your abilities in line with these. Power should contribute to organisational goals, respect human rights and conform to standards of equality and justice.

Before you commence tutorial 1 you need to carry out an assessment of your current level of knowledge in this skill. 

This BASELINE ASSESSMENT is used as a starting point for determining how much knowledge you have gained, once you have completed the module.

A comparison will be made with your final knowledge assessment, so it is important that you fully understand what you are learning in the tutorials.

Baseline Assessment Power and Influence

Managers and leaders use power in their day-to-day work. 

The power comes from a variety of sources - coercive, reward, legitimate, expert, informational, connection and referent. 

Using power effectively, is an important skill for every manager and leader.

Where one person exercises power over another it must conform to some basic ideas about what is appropriate. 

These five course tutorials look at the key areas to help you use power appropriately and effectively within your organisation and team.

Introduction to Power and Influence

Sources of Power: this is your ability to fully understand the five main sources of power and to put them into context in the workplace.

Tutorial 1: Sources of Power

Here are the Action Points from Tutorial 2 to use within the Action Planner.

Tutorial 1 - Implementation Guide

Use this action planner to identify the appropriate job-based actions, prompted by the implementation guidelines in the tutorial. The form is interactive.

Tutorial 1 - Action Planner

Using Power: this is your ability to look at situations in order to determine whether power has been used ethically or not.

Tutorial 2: Using Power

Tutorial 2 - Implementation Guide

Use this action planner to identify the appropriate job-based actions, prompted by the implementation guidelines in the tutorial. The form is interactive.

Tutorial 2 - Action Planner

Influencing others: this is your ability to understand how to influence another by the use of power, the use of politics and through social influence.

Tutorial 3: Influencing others

Here are the Action Points from Tutorial 3 to use within the Action Planner.

Tutorial 3 - Implementation Guide

Tutorial 3 - Action Planner

Impression Management: this is your ability to use the power of persuasion, appearance and perception, in order to change the way people think about you in a positive direction.

Tutorial 4: Impression Management

Here are the Action Points from Tutorial 4 to use within the Action Planner.

Tutorial 4 - Implementation Guide

Tutorial 4 - Action Planner

Empowering Others: this is your ability to understand the potential to improve effectiveness when team members and  groups of co-workers are empowered to make decisions.

Tutorial 5: Empowering Others

Here are the Action Points from Tutorial 5 to use within the Action Planner.

Tutorial 5 - Implementation Guide

Tutorial 5 - Action Planner

You should base this review on the action plans you completed at the end of each tutorial. You can type directly into the Action Plan Reviews.

Action Plan Review

Now that you have completed this course module, you should undertake a Final Assessment, as an indicator of how much knowledge you have gained, from working through the tutorials. The attainment level for the assessment is 80%. 

The best measure of your attainment level, however, relates to how much of the knowledge gained, has now been converted into work based actions and performance improvement.

Final Assessment Power and Influence

The transfer of the knowledge you have acquired from this course is a critical stage in the development of your skills and abilities, aligned to your current and future job roles.

What you have learned needs to be applied and practiced within the context of your job from this point forward. By this means you will improve your own performance and level of competence.

It takes commitment and time but the pay back will be self-evident.

To assist you in this process, there are implementation guidelines to provide you with a series of action points for you to implement and practice as part of your day-to-day activities.

The development plans are designed to provide a framework for you to plan and track your actions, identify issues and problems and monitor your progress. Print further copies of the relevant document if you require continuation sheets.

This process should prove very effective in improving your job performance, as well as providing you with an important portfolio of evidence, on which to build your career development plans.

ACTION PLAN  -  ACTIVITY LOG  -  REVIEW: OUTCOMES  -  REVIEW: PROCESS

DEVELOPMENT PLAN

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GLOSSARY OF TERMS

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Power and Influence

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