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Crucial Influence (APPEL-CIN)Building & Leading NASA Teams

Crucial Influence (APPEL-CIN)

PARTICIPANT TESTIMONIALS

  • Building & Leading NASA Teams
    Building & Leading NASA Teams

Skill Level: Team/Subsystem Leads or higher.

Crucial Influence® teaches leadership skills that are essential to leaders at every level. Drawing on five decades of social science research and work with successful leaders around the world, the Crucial Influence Model reveals why people do what they do and how all leaders—from aspiring leaders to top executives—can influence others for lasting results.

Crucial Influence incorporates group discussion, video case studies, personal reflection, and engaging exercises into an active learning experience that enables learners to develop an influence plan to solve their challenges.

This course is designed for NASA’s Program Managers, aspiring Program Managers, Senior and Project Managers, Lead and Senior Systems Engineers, Project Systems Engineers, Chief Engineers, and Business Group Leaders will also benefit from this course.

Project Management Competencies
Common Competencies
  • C 5.2 - Knowledge Sharing

    • Click here to view the Competency Models.

    APPEL Library Resource
    NASA Galaxie Library NASA Galaxie Library
    All supplemental resources are NASA accessible only unless otherwise noted.

    Upon completion of the Change Management Course, participants will be able to:

    • Identify what influence is.
    • Identify the influence challenges you face as a leader that are keeping you from results.
    • Clarify the vital behaviors that directly drive results.
    • Examine the Six Sources of Influence-personal, social, and structural factors – to discover the causes of any behavior.
    • Diagnose why the current behavior exists to prescribe the most effective and comprehensive solution.
    • Learn how to engage multiple sources of influence to overwhelm persistent and resistant behaviors.
    • Help others want to do vital behaviors by connecting to values.
    • Invest in deliberate practice to significantly enhance personal ability.
    • Harness the power of social influence.
    • Identify and engage opinion leaders.
    • Make incentives and consequences work for you by supporting, not undermining, desired behaviors.
    • Practice using all the skills of Crucial Influence on a real-life case.
    • Make plans to execute on your own Influence Challenge plan.
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    Schedule & Registration

    Click the Dates Below to Register Inside SATERN. These are all in-person course offerings.
    KSC Jul 9, 2024
    Registration opens on:

    May 01, 2024

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    GRC Aug 6, 2024
    Registration opens on:

    Jun 03, 2024

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    Registration Overview

    Registration Question? Contact a training specialist below for assistance.

    Tyler Waddell
    tyler.c.waddell@nasa.gov
    (321) 861-1112

    EXTERNAL CERTIFICATION CREDIT

    To be determined.

    About the Instructor(s)

    Candace Bertotti

    Candace Bertotti began working in live media, and then served seven years at the U.S. Department of Education. Candace works with a wide range of audiences (from CEOs to coal miners), industries (from healthcare to high-tech), and organizations (from Homeland Security to Honda, Google, Mars Snack Foods, and others). For five years Candace taught negotiation, decision-making and crisis leadership at the University of Maryland’s Center for International Development and Conflict Management. Candace currently teaches negotiation at Georgetown Law School, and serves as a mediator for child abuse cases in D.C. Superior Court.

    Traci Chevraux

    Traci Chevraux has more than 18 years of experience as a facilitator, speaker, coach and organizational consultant. She balances theory, experience, and practice with the organizations she works with to maximize their potential through increased effectiveness, results-driven strategy, and strengthened vital behaviors. Traci’s approach to facilitation embraces the concept of experiential learning and high-level discussion to give participants the chance to learn by engaging with the context.

    Steve Childs

    Steve spent 18 years in the pharmaceutical industry, where he started as a sales representative and was promoted to head of a marketing division, then head of a sales division, and eventually to the leadership development team. In 2009, Steve started his own consulting company specializing in leadership development and began working with VitalSmarts. Steve’s goal is to engage learners in an active process to increase retention and post-learning application.

    Barbara Hauser

    Barbara Hauser has dedicated her career to helping global leaders achieve growth in their business objectives and significance in their professional lives. The spark that animates Barbara’s coaching and facilitation work is her entrepreneurial spirit and disciplined approach to learning for the sake of growth. The experience that grounds her interventions in real-world business issues has been culled from a wide range of clients in multiple industries within both the US and Latin America. Having lived and worked in Latin America for over thirty years, Barbara is exceptionally effective at facilitating in Latin American and global business settings and cultures.

    Jillian Morenz

    Jillian has presented on a variety of professional development and leadership topics over the years. Since 2011, she has partnered with Crucial Learning to deliver speeches and trainings around the world that are grounded in the company’s ongoing observational research. Jillian brings key training concepts to both on-site and virtual events focused on interpersonal communication, individual and team accountability, and organizational change.

    Amy Podurgal

    Amy Podurgal has over twenty-five years of experience as an organization and human resource development practitioner. Amy’s strengths include a strong business acumen, experience in large-scale change, organization diagnosis, and training and development. Executives and teams enjoy working with Amy because of her ability to apply organizational development theories to real business issues. Her genuine compassion for people enables her to quickly build meaningful relationships with both teams and individuals. Amy has experience facilitating and working with companies across the globe and at all levels within an organization.

    Beth Wolfson

    Beth Wolfson has over thirty years of experience as both a leader in large organizations and as a consultant and trainer to organizations across almost every industry sector. She understands from personal experience the challenges, realities, issues, and frustrations her clients bring into the classroom. Beth excels in surfacing real issues in a safe manner so that participants can have breakthrough moments and experiences. Her ability to lead teams from being stuck into gaining forward momentum is one of her hallmark traits.

    CURRICULUM LEAD

    Curriculum Question? Contact the curriculum lead below for assistance.

    Diana Wehrell-Grabowski
    diana.m.wehrell-grabowski@nasa.gov

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