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Human Motivation and Influence
AC 240
8 credits
Motivation and influence are the ability to assert one's own will and develop relationships using leadership skills to facilitate others to align with you in action by seeing their own interests as congruent with yours. In this leadership training program, students will learn to listen contextually to elicit data, speak and write intentionally for influence and positive movement, and obtain feedback on their communication, team performance and impact. This AC will help students elicit others' deepest desires and wants; understand methods of identifying and overcoming objections; deal with passive aggressive behavior; enroll others toward their highest vision of themselves and develop an action plan to facilitate positive movement toward an ideal state within a team environment. Prerequisite: AC60 Leadership
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