Positive Power and Influence

Chartwell Learning & Development is the UK and Ireland's exclusive licensee for the Positive Power and Influence Programme.

Positive Power & Influence is the world's most successful influence skills development programme. Last year in the UK more than a thousand key staff from over 300 organisations attended Positive Power & Influence (PPI) programmes. More than a quarter of a million people in over 40 countries have learnt these skills, and the programme has been translated into 15 languages.

The Growing Need for Influence Skills
The move from autocratic, structured, tightly supervised cultures to looser, team-based, project management climates has created the need for people to be more self-reliant and personally competent to achieve their, and the organisation's, objectives. PPI develops personal power and influence and shows how to use it in a positive way to achieve results. Influencing is an essential skill for leadership and management.

Who Needs Influencing Skills?








Training and Reference Materials
The programme is supported by a comprehensive set of materials used throughout the course and retained for reference afterwards. These include:

The Course Workbook

The Reference Book - Managing Influence

Library of 25 Exercises

Aide-Memoire

Course Format
PPI is mainly experiential, with each new skill demonstrated and discussed, then practised in a series of exercises and role-play simulations of business life. Tutors give guidance and coaching as participants become confident in using their new skills. They review their performance in the role-plays and re-enact them as their skills develop.

Open PPI* courses are run throughout the year in locations across the UK, Ireland and France. These are residential courses and last five days.

Directors' Open PPI courses enable senior staff to experience PPI with their opposite numbers in other organisations.

In-house PPI courses, run by us or the client's own trainers, can be tailored to the requirements of the organisation.

Download a PPI factsheet here (pdf 328KB)

*Open PPIs in the UK and Ireland are run in association with Sheppard Moscow Personal Development, whose consultants conduct the programmes.