Power and Influence

Power and influence are crucial to understanding organizational dynamics, resolving conflict, navigating and promoting change, building cooperation, and developing professional skills in the workplace. The course aims to help students identify, diagnose, and analyze power as well as expose them to influence methods from an organizational, managerial, and professional skills perspective. The purpose of this course is to examine the different types of formal and personal power people use to influence others, explore ways power and influence are used for both good and bad, and develop students capabilities to create their own path to obtaining, managing, and sustaining power and influence.