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- AI Literacy
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Measure
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8 tracks
Get buy-in and move cross-functional work forward when you have no formal authority over the people involved — by mapping stakeholders, framing the ask in their currency, and trading value to reach a real yes.
The second course in the Power Skills Track, building on the candour you practised in 'Hard Talks Made Human: Feedback & Difficult Conversations'. Influence is the skill that decides whether your roadmap survives contact with the rest of the org: the security review you don't control, the platform team whose quarter you need a slice of, the VP whose sign-off gates your launch. You watch the difference between an ask that lands and one that dies in a Slack thread, learn the spine of influence — map, frame, trade, follow up — decide your move under real 2026 cross-functional pressure, and write the exact opening lines and influence plan you'd use, against a clear rubric.
Hook: watch the same ask die and then land, then surface where you actually stand on influence.
The models: map the stakeholders, frame the ask in their currency, trade value, and make the yes stick.
Apply it: read the room, frame in their currency, sequence the influence play, and trade your way to yes.
Prove it in your own words: write the ask, pass the judgement gate, and commit to a real influence plan.
Book a demo and we'll run "Influence Without Authority" end to end on your people — the AI asks, your people think — or point the Forge at your own material instead (a pre-pilot capability preview).