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Coachability · Influencing Skills
Your Influencing Goal
This tool helps participants understand how they naturally influence others and apply those insights to real situations. Through a short self-assessment across nine influencing styles, users identify their strongest approaches, reflect on their impact, and consider how others prefer to be influenced. They then apply these insights to a current priority and create a practical, personalized influence plan.
List up to three key priorities where you need to apply influence this month.
External (clients, prospects, partners) or internal (colleagues, leadership, other teams).
Please add at least one priority before continuing.
Coachability · Influencing Skills
Understanding Your Influencing Styles
This reflection shows you the influencing styles you naturally lead with, and how to use those strengths with greater authenticity, intention, and impact.
How this works
- 1RespondThirty-six short statements on how you tend to influence. About five minutes.
- 2See your profileYour scores across all nine styles, strongest first.
- 3Explore your strengthsWhat your leading styles offer, and how they show up with external and internal stakeholders, and personally.
- 4Put it to workApply it to a real conversation that matters.
This is a reflection and self-assessment. There is no single style you are. Most people lead with several, and after the assessment it is worth continuing to reflect on the styles that others respond to.
The nine influencing styles
Each is a distinct route through which people are influenced. You will see which you lead with once you have responded.
Thirty-six statements, about five minutes. Your answers are saved in this browser as you go, and are never sent anywhere.
Influencing Styles Self-Assessment
For each statement, choose the score that best reflects how you behave when you set out to influence someone. Answer honestly rather than aspirationally; the honest picture is the useful one.
Please answer every statement in this set before moving on.
Your influencing profile
A snapshot of how you currently influence, not a verdict on ability.
Your full profile
All nine, ranked by how readily you reach for each. Each style is scored out of 16, from its four statements.
Send my results
We’ll email you a PDF of your influencing profile and all nine styles described in full. Finish the remaining steps and we’ll send the complete report with your plan.
Reflect on your styles
Focus on the style you rely on most. Complete that one and select it as your dominant style below. Reflect on the others if you have time.
Review all three and select your dominant style
The one you rely on most. This carries through to your plan.
Please select your dominant style before continuing.
Your influence plan
Choose one priority and decide how you will bring your styles to it. You can come back and plan your other priorities afterwards; each is saved separately.
1 · Your priority
Choose a priority and the style you will lead with before continuing.
Your commitment
Take this into the conversation
Your working brief for one real influence situation. Print it or save it as a PDF.
Send this to my inbox
We’ll email you a PDF containing your influencing profile, your reflections, the plan above, and all nine styles described in full — so you have it after you close this page.
Your answers are saved in this browser as you type, so you can come back to them. Nothing leaves this browser unless you use the button above to email yourself a copy.