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Influencing Risk Professionals
Enhancing Influence to Drive Better Risk Outcomes
About this course
After receiving overwhelmingly positive feedback from the delivery of Influencing Essentials at the 2025 RMIA Conference, we are thrilled to launch our brand new professional development offering, Influencing Essentials for Risk Professionals. This course is for risk managers looking to enhance their communication skills and become more effective influencers. The ability to influence individuals, teams, customers, and stakeholders is a critical aspect of a risk manager's role, fostering agreement and alignment with key perspectives and proposals. By mastering the art of influencing outcomes while preserving strong relationships, participants will be better equipped to effectively drive successful strategic decision making and action.
Course specifics
Audience: This course is designed for risk professionals at all levels who need to build stronger influencing capabilities to drive effective risk outcomes. Ideal participants include Risk and Compliance Managers, Enterprise Risk and Operational Risk Leads, Project Risk Specialists and Emerging Risk Leaders
Cost: $770.00 (members), $990.00 (non-members)
Facilitator: Lisa Harrison
Format: 1x Half Day Online Learning Workshop
Time: 4 hours
CPD Points: 4
Course Facilitator:
The Learning Pyramid
Topics Covered
Establishing trust and rapport
Finding the starting point
Principles of influence.
Planning the interaction
Structuring influencing conversations
Learning Outcomes
Apply influencing with an ethical approach
Communicate through verbal and non-verbal channels
Use key skills including active listening and perspective taking
Establish trust, rapport and credibility to negotiate win-win outcomes
Apply principles of influence to expand their sphere of influence.
Structure conversations for optimal influencing and persuasion
Use information effectively for influencing