LEADERSHIP

The Art and Science of Influence and Persuasion

Critical and Valuable for Success for Executives and Entrepreneurs

Imagine attracting, influencing, persuading, and mobilizing the people, resources,

and opportunities, to live a life of purpose, meaning, and happiness,

through visioning, presencing, presenting, and selling.

Imagine If Institute, founded by Norman Glyn Jones, offers four complimentary self-directed online leadership programs, where each student is supported with personalized calls, coaching, critiques, and rehearsals with Norman, an internationally experienced corporate trainer, with extensive executive and entrepreneur experience.

All programs are designed to be of very high value to aspiring and current executives and to aspiring and current entrepreneurs, who want to learn the knowledge and develop the skills of Leadership, through The Art and Science of Influence and Persuasion, through Visioning, Presencing, Presenting, and Selling.

Proficiency in Visioning, Presencing, Presenting, and Selling is of critical importance and of great value for the success of every executive and every entrepreneur, and their organizations. 

Possessing the knowledge and skills of The Art and Science of Influence and Persuasion enables executives and entrepreneurs to attract, influence, persuade, and mobilize the people, resources, and opportunities, to live a life of purpose, meaning, and happiness.

Individual Learning and Group Learning

Each program is designed to maximize the learning value for individual learners and groups of learners.

Individuals can progress through the programs at their own place, in their own time, at their own pace, whilst being fully and personally supported by Norman throughout their learning journey. 

A group of learners from the same organization can arrange to progress through the programs during the same time period and be fully and personally supported by Norman throughout their learning journey, through one or a combination of four group learning formats – online, virtual, blended, and onsite learning.

INFLUENCE Programs

Visioning – imagine, influence, and realize!

Visionary leaders create visionary organizations, which have a lucid, coherent, and meaningful vision, which influences their people in creating their own future.

This program explores the essentials of what a vision is, guides the process of creating a vision for your own organization, and explores what it takes and what it means to live life as a visionary leader.

Read details about the Visioning Program.

PERSUASION Programs

Presenting – inform, persuade, and inspire!

Delivering a persuasive presentation or pitch is the most effective way to inform, persuade, and inspire people to an action, belief, decision, or idea, or to buy, sell, invest, or divest.

This program explores the four elements of an effective persuasive presentation, or pitch – Story, Sensation, Spirit, and Q & A.

Read details about the Presenting Program.

Professional Courses with Personal Coaching

Imagine If Institute programs are comprised of courses that have been developed by a professional for professionals.

Norman, with decades of experience as an executive and as an entrepreneur, including as a face-to-face corporate trainer, has developed Imagine If Institute’s programs and courses for other professionals, who are either aspiring or current executives or entrepreneurs, and who wish to learn The Art and Science of Influence and Persuasion online.

As one example of Norman’s corporate training experience, the onsite training version of the “Producing Your Polished Presentations” Program, has been taught face-to-face by Norman, in several Asia-Pacific countries, to executives from:

Societe Generale (SocGen)

MFS Investment Management (MFS)

Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP Paribas)

Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts (Banyan Tree)

Guy Carpenter & Company (Guy Carpenter)

Tapestry, Inc. (Coach, Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman)

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC)

To ensure Imagine If Institute’s online students receive as many of the benefits as possible of face-to-face interactive onsite learning, Norman supports every student, of every program, at every level, with virtual online personalized coaching sessions, during which students may ask questions, engage in discussion, practice their newly acquired skills, and receive answers, feedback, guidance, and suggestions from Norman.

Effective Learning through Enjoyable Learning

The content of Imagine If Institute’s programs is based on science, research, and experience, ensuring it is grounded in objective principles, observable outcomes, and professional practice, making each program easy to understand, simple to remember, smooth to implement, and effective in creating desired influence and persuasion outcomes.

To ensure an effective, enjoyable, and enlightening learning experience, program content, depending on the program level, is presented and supported through a combination of different adult learning activities.

Program support, including calls, critiques, coaching, rehearsals, and facilitation, is undertaken individually with Norman and is personalized to the needs and benefits of each student.