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Influencing Skills and Attitudes

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Certain key skills and attitudes are essential for effective influencing. An understanding of these skills and attitudes, together with an awareness of your own ability in the areas, is helpful for successful influencing in today’s complex organisational environment.

The aim of argument or of discussion should not be victory, but progress

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French writer

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© 2006 Fiona Elsa Dent and Mike Brent

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Dent, F.E., Brent, M. (2006). Influencing Skills and Attitudes. In: Influencing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596689_3

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