About the Course
Top reviews
FG
Feb 22, 2025
Great course and well fitted with the 2 previous course (establish your success path and communication). Thanks Wharton and Professors.
LL
Feb 1, 2020
The information provided was very helpful and beneficial, and presented in a very interesting way. Many tools were provided to help both personally and professionally.
76 - 98 of 98 Reviews for Influence
By Jay N
•Apr 13, 2020
Great course. I've learned a lot.
By Monica B
•Oct 15, 2024
A must for every professional.
By M C
•Jan 31, 2022
Highly recommend the course...
By Yamamoto B
•Oct 3, 2017
Exceptional
By Bryan M
•Oct 21, 2017
awesome!
By Tuhin C
•Jun 2, 2018
MUST DO
By Hu W J
•Jun 12, 2020
superb
By Jorge R V P
•Apr 25, 2020
Great.
By Hans R
•Sep 24, 2020
I had a wonderful experience doing this course. Although some of the course contents were geared more towards MBA students, I learnt some of the influence tactics that would help me reach my goals in a more realistic way. I thank Coursera and the University of Pennsylvania for devising this useful course online, giving the opportunity to a number of students to access quality information from the comfort of their homes.
By Fred V
•Aug 31, 2020
This course is a lot about power, less about influence. Notably, we missed a critical and topical issue: how scientific advisors can, or cannot, get their messages through politicians, through their influence. However, there are a lot of interesting things in this course about corporate power.
By Alex G B
•May 26, 2020
Good, engaging course using great examples. Not as compelling as Success, but then again, I've yet to take a course on Coursera that is!
By Utku K
•Oct 31, 2018
Very useful, mostly theoretical but very useful. Not much about influence in terms of negotiation skills...
By Ramiro J S A
•May 26, 2020
The teacher watched too much the teleprompter, I get distracted by that action.
By Natalia B
•Nov 26, 2022
Incredibly useful course. I wanted to go more in-depth.
By LATHRO
•Apr 3, 2019
Great content. I have learn much more than i hoped.
By Stephen M
•Jun 8, 2020
Very good introduction to influence
By Paula S
•Jan 20, 2023
I found learning about Sergio DeMello and Robert Moses to be very interesting. I enjoyed learning more about the Cuban Missile Crisis. I grew up in the 50's and 60's but did not know much about that. However, the course was way too difficult for me. I was taking the course specialization because the other three courses were relevant to my life right now. I am 71 years-old. I am going to work 1 and 1/2 more year and then retire. I was trying to figure out the course of the rest of my life. The Power and Influence part of it was a bit too much for a teacher. I really am not looking to lead anyone except students. Influence them yes, maybe have a little power over them but I feel that this class was overkill for all but business majors. There was never anyone on when I was and nobody to discuss things with. It was like pulling teeth to get my peer review assignments graded. Anyway, this is my feeling. I loved the previous three classes in this sequence.
By Runa S
•Nov 15, 2019
a good course overall, yet sometimes was too detailed especially in analyzing assessment results as probably would've been more interesting to talk about influence.
By nigel m
•Jan 26, 2026
I must admit that it is a bit complex trying to retain a lot of the vital information. but it will come in time I'm sure
By mandyliu
•Jun 15, 2022
Coursera is SCAM and the WORSE online learning platform. i unsubscrip long time ago. but i just found out they are still charging me for 18 months. i checked my purchase page, every course shows in inactive states. but Coursera still keep charging me, just becasue i didnt delete my credit card. at first, i thought i forgot to unsubscrip, so i follow their SELF SERVICE CENTER "how to cancel a subscription", there is no cancel subsription option there!
futhermore, i want to reach out to thier people. there is no any contact info or email you can reach out if you have any issue. so i end up paying USD79 * 18 months = USD 1422. i really hope that someone that could hlep me solve this situation. as that is a lot of money for me. i lost my job last year, that's why i signed up for this course. then i stoped after few months, then i unbscriped, but NOW at my home page and my purchase also didnt show when the user cancel the course. i just delate my credit card, but i am not sure if they will still ask me to pay, this has drive me carzy, i really hope i can reach out to them and solive this issue. thank you for whom is reading this.
By Timur N
•Dec 19, 2021
This course just wastes u time. Meaningless and unuseful. They just tell you some common phrase that u can take from Wikipedia.
Course is worthless.
By Shannon S
•Mar 20, 2021
This class is so hard to follow, the instructor talks way to fast and doesn't really explain in details.
By Kerem B Y
•Jun 1, 2021
Rubbish