Leadership Upskilling: Don’t Just Manage; Lead with Influence and Impact For the Changing Workplace!

14 Jan 2026
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
60 Minutes

Leadership upskilling is essential as businesses and organizations continue to transform into a more interconnected, interdependent, global workplace that is also experiencing ongoing change. Because of these changes, leaders can no longer lead solely by the power of their authority or position. They need the personal power of influence - the ability to positively impact the actions, behaviors, opinions of, not just their direct reports, but also bosses, peers, executive management as well as key decision makers.
If your leaders and managers don’t have influence, they will have difficulty leading others to take action and implementing the goals and strategies of your organization.
 
 Therefore, it is crucial that all your leaders - whatever their level - understand the range of influence techniques they can use, know when and how to use them, as well as build their personal power base so that they can play a greater role in impacting the organization’s success.
 
Influence Is the New Leadership Skill. Make Sure Your Leaders Have It!
“Leadership Upskilling” is a practical, hands-on webinar that will give participants new ways of looking at the dynamics of personal power, politics, persuasion, and influence during times of change. You will see these benefits:

  • Stronger leadership: Builds managers skilled at influencing, motivating, and driving results.
  • Better change adoption: Equips managers to guide their teams through uncertainty.
  • Higher performance: Powers people’s engagement, alignment, accountability
  • Healthier team dynamics: Reduces stress, conflict, enhances collaboration.


Register your managers and emerging leaders today to strengthen their leadership influence and impact. You’ll be developing leaders who can influence change—not react to it!

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

When was the last time you thought about how you influence others — how you change minds, shape opinions, move others to act? Perhaps you are a line manager or supervisor feeling frustrated because others are not supporting your ideas? Or a project manager trying to lead a cross-functional team that is going in different directions? Or new in your job wanting to learn how to become a better leader? Or realizing you must improve your influencing skills to advance your career?
Even with a solid foundation of personal credibility and competence, you as leaders and managers may fall short if you don’t understand the influence dynamics of power, politics, and persuasion. Whether you’re getting support for your recommendations or getting approval for expenditures beyond your budget or getting items onto the agenda for the next meeting, your ability to influence matters.
 
That’s why it is so vitally important to have influencing skills as part of your professional portfolio. The ability to influence your boss, your peers, your staff, as well as key decision makers is an essential skill for leaders, managers and supervisors, whatever their level or position.
 
Start Building Your Influence! Upskill Your Leadership and Career!
Register now for this engaging and high-impact webinar “Leadership Upskilling”. You will learn practical skills to:
·         Lead people, change, and results in today’s changing workplace and workforce.
·         Influence without authority by developing your personal power, rather than relying on title or control.
·         Gain buy-in faster by communicating ideas in ways that resonate across generations, teams and work styles.
·         Strengthen executive presence and increase impact in meetings, presentations, and decision-making moments.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

During this highly informative webinar you will discover how to build your influencing and personal power skills to be a more effective leader. These seven objectives will be covered in this webinar:
 

  • Know the 5 reasons why leading through influence matters in a changing workplace.
  • Recognize the value of personal power to motivate positive change and positive results.
  • Identify the 6 sources of leadership power; review each source’s challenges and impact on others.
  • Review 4 skills and attitudes on how to influence others from The Centre for Creative Leadership.
  • Understand why organizational politics and power are not bad words; they are vital to success.
  • Learn how to check your personal credibility and why it’s important for influencing others.
  • Explore Marshall Goldsmith’s “Rules of the Road”: 5 ways to influence decision makers.

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

CEO’s
COO’s
VP of Human Resources
Chief Learning Officer
Directors
Project Managers
Staff & Operation Managers and Supervisors
Team Leaders, Human Resources Professionals. Managers and Supervisors, Talent Management Professionals, Team Leaders, All professionals who want to enhance their influence skills

When was the last time you thought about how you influence others — how you change minds, shape opinions, move others to act? Perhaps you are a line manager or supervisor feeling frustrated because others are not supporting your ideas? Or a project manager trying to lead a cross-functional team that is going in different directions? Or new in your job wanting to learn how to become a better leader? Or realizing you must improve your influencing skills to advance your career?
Even with a solid foundation of personal credibility and competence, you as leaders and managers may fall short if you don’t understand the influence dynamics of power, politics, and persuasion. Whether you’re getting support for your recommendations or getting approval for expenditures beyond your budget or getting items onto the agenda for the next meeting, your ability to influence matters.
 
That’s why it is so vitally important to have influencing skills as part of your professional portfolio. The ability to influence your boss, your peers, your staff, as well as key decision makers is an essential skill for leaders, managers and supervisors, whatever their level or position.
 
Start Building Your Influence! Upskill Your Leadership and Career!
Register now for this engaging and high-impact webinar “Leadership Upskilling”. You will learn practical skills to:
·         Lead people, change, and results in today’s changing workplace and workforce.
·         Influence without authority by developing your personal power, rather than relying on title or control.
·         Gain buy-in faster by communicating ideas in ways that resonate across generations, teams and work styles.
·         Strengthen executive presence and increase impact in meetings, presentations, and decision-making moments.

During this highly informative webinar you will discover how to build your influencing and personal power skills to be a more effective leader. These seven objectives will be covered in this webinar:
 

  • Know the 5 reasons why leading through influence matters in a changing workplace.
  • Recognize the value of personal power to motivate positive change and positive results.
  • Identify the 6 sources of leadership power; review each source’s challenges and impact on others.
  • Review 4 skills and attitudes on how to influence others from The Centre for Creative Leadership.
  • Understand why organizational politics and power are not bad words; they are vital to success.
  • Learn how to check your personal credibility and why it’s important for influencing others.
  • Explore Marshall Goldsmith’s “Rules of the Road”: 5 ways to influence decision makers.

CEO’s
COO’s
VP of Human Resources
Chief Learning Officer
Directors
Project Managers
Staff & Operation Managers and Supervisors
Team Leaders, Human Resources Professionals. Managers and Supervisors, Talent Management Professionals, Team Leaders, All professionals who want to enhance their influence skills

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Speaker Profile

ins_img Marcia Zidle

Marcia Zidle, the Smart Moves Coach, is a board-certified executive and career coach, business management consultant, and keynote speaker, with over 25 years of management, business consulting, and international experience in a variety of industries including health care, financial services, oil and gas, manufacturing, insurance, pharmaceuticals, hospitality, government and nonprofits. She has expertise in strategy and alignment; executive and team leadership development; social and emotional intelligence; employee engagement and innovation; career and organization change management; employee relations and talent management. Marcia has been selected as one of LinkedIn Profinder’s top coaches for the past 7 years. Check out the 200 …

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