Be More Agile, Starting a Business, CEO Know-How, BS on Billions, Fraudster Anna Sorokin, More With Less
 
 
The Year of Reinvention
 
March 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
Agile gets more agile with Transactional Competence
 
 
SPECIAL WEBINAR — 25 MAY — 4:00–5:30 PM PACIFIC
 
 
Most Agile Coaches struggle with Influencing up—getting greater buy-in for authentic Agility. It isn't easy to influence executive buy-in, and more challenging is to get buy-in for the real deal. In the absence of authentic Agility, you get all the pain and none of the gain. Ultimately, it will appear as if there is a missing piece to the manifesto. Join our panel of agility-focused Influential U students as we discuss how Transactional Competence™ allows Agility to out-perform expectations. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Starting your own company
 
 
FOCUS LECTURE — 14 MARCH — 4:00–5:30 PM PACIFIC
 
 
The Great Resignation is resulting in an unprecedented number of new startups. Do you have what it takes to start your own business? Think accurately before making big changes. It’s easy to leap from a bad situation to worse, yet, it’s also tough to know when it’s the right time to jump. Focus Lectures are free to active students and their guests. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Small business CEO know-how
 
 
FOCUS LECTURE — 11 APRIL — 4:00–5:30 PM PACIFIC 
 
 
Directing a small biz can be a lonely business. There are so many questions, moving parts, and challenges. It can be challenging to know what to do. The wrong move can spell disaster. The right move can put you on top of the world. In this 90-minute webinar by Influential U, we'll offer live Q&A time for some of the most pressing issues addressed by many small business directors, CEOs, and founders. Focus Lectures are free to active students and their guests.
 
 
 
 
 
 
MARCH 9
Auckland

MARCH 10
Europe

MARCH 14
Wellington

MARCH 18
Los Angeles

MARCH 21
Chicago

MARCH 23
Christchurch
 
MARCH 30
Asia Pacific

APRIL 7
Auckland

APRIL 22
Boston

APRIL 25
Philadelphia

MAY 20
San Franciso

MAY 23
Seattle
 
MAY 23
Seattle

JUNE 2
Auckland

JUNE 10
Atlanta

JUNE 13
Washington, DC

JUNE 15
Toronto

JULY 21
Auckland
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Influential U CEO calls BS on Billions’ take on Transactionalism
 
 
BAD TRANSACTING
 
 
As a teacher of Transactional Competence, I am used to hearing the term “transactional” misused and abused. However, a recent rash of scenes on the Showtime series BILLIONS have finally brought me out from behind the velvet rope of my business to call B.S. on the show’s bastardization of something we all do every day, transact. Humankind exchanges to survive. No one is immune.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Our fascination with Anna Sorokin—charming fraudster or genius influencer?
 
 
INFLUENCER?
 
 
Everything you know about being an influencer is wrong. Well, somewhat wrong. Case in point: a huge hit on Netflix is “Inventing Anna”, a drama miniseries starring Julia Garner, about the case of Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, a German convicted con artist and fraudster who Instagram-pretended to be a wealthy heiress defrauding banks, hotels, and acquaintances of hundreds of thousands of dollars. How has she stolen “the hearts and money of New York elites” as well as all this attention? Is she a charming fraudster or a genius influencer?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
With a shrinking talent pool, how do companies do more with less?
 
 
GO FASTER
 
 
A record number of employees have or plan to quit. Already hobbled by the pandemic, businesses are now looking for new ways to balance investment in talent attraction, professional development, and finding tools to increase productivity. With more people reconsidering their careers, many companies will have to reinvent productivity amid a rapidly evolving society and culture.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Five secrets to pull more income from your current job
 
 
MAKE MORE
 
 
A Google search for ways to make extra income will result in some 4.5 billion results talking about side hustles, second jobs, and even clinical trials. But how do you earn more wages from your current job? You don't have time for more work; you want less of it. It starts by being in the driver's seat of your own value rather than hoping for a promotion and accepting whatever you get. Here are five secrets to pulling more income from your current job.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Like earning your Bachelor’s of Influence degree
 
 
FUNDAMENTALS OF TRANSACTION — STARTS APRIL 19
 
 
What is life but a never-ending series of endless exchanges? Humans transact. It’s what we do. In fact, it’s practically all we do. Do you influence every exchange? Without Transactional Competence, probably not. Our potent program Fundamentals of Transaction teaches battle-tested techniques to target your aims, construct better exchanges, leverage your personality and accelerate your influence. Registration for our next class closes on April 1. Are you ready to learn how to get to yes faster?