Understanding Influence within a Project Community
This online engineering PDH course rests on the model of a large-project setting (50+ team members) in which there are budget, schedule, planning, and delivery deadlines creating enormous pressures on team members every day. It is not about the typical examples of influence - i.e., who you know - but rather the more subtle situations that are around us every day and that we often overlook. Life teaches us about patterns and repetition. Those lessons provide the temptation to use mental shortcuts in familiar situations (or what we think is familiar) to act based on what we have experienced before, save a little time, and get a little more done instead of analyzing each situation as if it was never seen before.
These mental shortcuts - if (that condition) and then (this result) - can be helpful when we are correct but dangerous when we are wrong. The greater our awareness of the behavioral, stimulus-response triggers we encounter and the attempts by others to influence our actions, the greater the likelihood we will think before acting and then act in a way that either helps us or at least does not harm us. Collectively, the more that we can think before acting will improve the project's overall harmony and the less career damage those actions will pose for us.
This 2 PDH online course is intended for current or potential project managers as well as project team members that want to play a role of greater leadership and responsibility in a project by seeking to understand influence as part of large project team.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Knowing the difference between socially acceptable and socially predictable responses within the project community
- Knowing the six kinds of stimulus-response situations within a project setting
- Learning how to increase the likelihood a teammate will comply with your request of a favor
- Learning to identify the potential dangers hidden within a vendor's price quote
- Learning how the sequence of specific items within a request can influence your success in getting what you want
- Learning the hidden dangers associated with uninvited debts
- Learning how to use the principle of reciprocal concessions to your advantage
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the document titled "Understanding Influence within a Project Community".
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