Influencing For Opportunity: Identify and Maximize Ways to Influence Influencing for Opportunity combines self-study with realistic workplace activities to provide you with the key skills and techniques to influence those around you. You will learn the theory of influence, influence principles and strategies, as well as how to plan and prepare for important opportunities to influence. As a result, you should achieve greater results in your organization, work more productively and effectively in a team environment, and develop stronger working relationships with co-workers, suppliers and customers. The ability to influence others is critical in today's competitive business environment. Being highly skilled in influence enables you to build the relationships you need to get results inside or outside the organization. Employees and managers alike cannot assume they have power over others - they must earn it through influence. Being an influential person is a skill that can be learned and practiced. Influencing for Opportunity will help you succeed in the modern corporate environment by increasing your ability to influence others. Influencing for Opportunity includes a Job Aid and learning support tool, '6 Rules of Influence', provided to you as a free download.