What does your Influence Profile reveal?
Your influence map
A radar across eight influence dimensions — reciprocity, commitment, social proof, authority, liking, scarcity, unity and contrast — shows where you naturally reach for each lever.
Your strongest influence levers
Your report identifies the influence mechanisms you use most naturally and effectively in negotiation.
Your blind spot
Your report highlights the influence lever you are least likely to use deliberately — and what that may mean for your effectiveness.
Your influence archetype
Your report describes the influence approach that characterizes your negotiation style.
The shadow side of every lever
Your report shows how each influence strength can become less effective when overused or applied without discipline.
Your development focus
Your report provides a 30-day development plan to strengthen your least-used influence lever while moderating your strongest.
Influence is not just about being persuasive. It is about knowing how to adapt.
An influence approach that works with one counterpart or situation may be ineffective in another. Greater awareness of your influence patterns can help you choose the right lever for the right moment.
Your Influence Profile Report
Influence Profile
Use this report as a practical guide to how you tend to negotiate in this specific area. Start with your overall pattern, then look at the scores and behaviours behind it. Pay particular attention to where your strengths may become less useful under pressure and to the development actions you can test in real negotiations.
There are no 'good' or 'bad' profiles. The value comes from understanding your natural tendencies, where they help you and where greater choice could improve your effectiveness.
This specialist assessment is part of the Elite Negotiator Index™. It is a developmental self-report tool designed to support reflection and professional development in negotiation.
Your results describe patterns in the responses you provided. They are not a clinical assessment, a measure of personal worth, or a ranking against other negotiators.
Your Profile at a Glance
You build agreement the way a skilled architect builds a bridge — one well-founded element at a time. Your influence rests on credibility and step-by-step commitment, and you reinforce it with genuine relational connection. Counterparts rarely feel pushed; they feel guided toward a conclusion that, by the time it arrives, feels like their own.
Scores range from 19 to 36 out of 42. A spread of 17 points shows a clear, deliberate profile rather than a flat, undifferentiated one.
Your top three tools — Commitment, Credibility and Relational Connection — work as a sequence: you make your position credible, build rapport, then lock in alignment step by step. Counterparts experience this as being guided, not pushed.
The 17-point spread between your strongest and weakest tools means you have a recognisable influence style. This is an asset — a flat profile usually signals lack of self-awareness about which tools you actually reach for.
Commitment sits well above your other scores. When it works, it is your most reliable path to agreement. When the situation calls for urgency or reframing, you may find yourself without a ready alternative.
Your agreements are durable because they are well-built, but they can be slow to close because you rarely make the cost of delay explicit. Practice framing a genuine, verifiable reason to act now — not manufactured pressure, but the real downside of inaction made visible to the counterpart.
Your Influence Signature™
How your eight influence tools combine.
How Your Pattern Works
You build agreement step by step, confirming alignment at each step and making the final agreement feel like a natural conclusion.
Counterparts find it hard to backtrack because each step was explicitly agreed. They experience you as methodical and reliable, not pushy.
You build credibility through preparation, accurate statements, and demonstrating command of the subject matter.
Counterparts take your proposals seriously because they trust the foundation they rest on. Your positions feel well-founded rather than asserted.
You invest in understanding the person across the table — their context, pressures, and what matters to them beyond the deal.
Counterparts lower their guard and share information they would withhold from a purely transactional negotiator.
Your three strongest tools form a sequence rather than three separate moves. Credibility opens the door — your preparation and command of the subject matter earn the right to be heard. Relational Connection widens it — genuine interest in the counterpart makes them willing to share what they actually need. Commitment then walks the counterpart through, one agreed step at a time, so that by the time you ask for the final decision it feels like the only sensible next step.
The risk is that the sequence is slow. When a negotiation is time-pressured or the counterpart is purely positional, you may invest in rapport and step-by-step alignment that the situation does not reward.
Prepared, credible, and genuinely interested in what I need. I never felt pushed — I felt guided toward a decision that made sense.
Sometimes the step-by-step approach felt slow. In a faster, more transactional conversation I wanted them to get to the point sooner.
Watch-Outs and Risks
Your signature is trust-based and methodical. The watch-out is not overuse of a single tool — it is over-reliance on the sequence itself. When the situation calls for urgency, reframing, or a direct positional move, your instinct is to build more rapport or confirm another step. That can make you slow to close and vulnerable to counterparts who exploit your patience.
| Tool | Possible Overuse |
|---|---|
| Credibility | Over-proving expertise or relying too heavily on authority. |
| Relational Connection | Prioritising rapport to the point that challenge or clarity is weakened. |
| Exchange | Making the interaction feel overly transactional or conditional. |
| Social Validation | Relying too heavily on what others do instead of the merits of the current decision. |
| Commitment | Creating rigidity or pushing consistency after circumstances have changed. |
| Opportunity Framing | Creating excessive urgency or overstating the cost of delay. |
| Identity Alignment | Putting pressure on the counterpart to behave consistently with an identity or value label. |
| Reference-Point Framing | Using anchors or comparisons so strongly that the framing feels engineered or overly directive. |
Before applying an influence tactic, ask:
If not, reconsider the tactic.
Your Development Plan
In your next negotiation, identify one genuine, verifiable reason the counterpart should act now and state it plainly. Not a manufactured deadline — the real cost of delay, made visible.
Keep your trust-based sequence for relationship-critical negotiations, but build a faster, more positional mode for time-pressured or one-off transactions. Let your existing credibility carry the case so you do not need the full sequence.
Watch for the counterpart who engages with rapport but does not reciprocate substance. When rapport is not earning you information or movement, switch tools rather than investing more in the relationship.
Choose a negotiation this week where you would normally build alignment slowly. Before it starts, write down one genuine reason the counterpart should act now — a real cost of delay, not a manufactured one.
State the reason for acting now once, clearly, and without repeating it. Then return to your normal step-by-step approach. Notice whether the counterpart moves faster without feeling pressured.
Ask yourself: did naming the cost of delay change the pace without damaging the relationship? If yes, you have a new tool that complements your sequence. If no, was the urgency genuine or did it feel manufactured?
The best negotiator is not the person with the highest score. It is the person who can choose the right influence tool for the right counterpart at the right moment — while remaining credible and ethical.
This profile reflects your self-reported influence tendencies. It shows the influence approaches you tend to use most naturally, not a judgment of your effectiveness. Higher is not automatically better — influence range and situational choice matter more than any single score. Every influence approach can be used ethically or unethically; the objective is awareness, range and ethical use.
Synthetic sample report — all scores and narratives are illustrative and do not represent any real respondent.
What Your Report Includes
- 1Your Influence Map — radar across eight influence dimensions
- 2Strengths & Blind Spot — your top three levers and your lowest
- 3Dimension-by-Dimension Feedback — score and band for each lever
- 4Your Development Focus — 30-day plan to strengthen your weakest lever
- 5The Shadow Side of Every Lever — how each strength can become a risk
- 6The Ethics Test — five questions to check your influence approach
Why take this if you already have the Elite Negotiator Index™?
Integrated Breadth
Elite Negotiator Index™
The Elite Negotiator Index™ shows how your influence profile fits into your wider negotiation profile across multiple dimensions and patterns.
Specialist Depth
Influence Profile
This assessment goes deeper into your influence tendencies and provides a dedicated report focused specifically on how you persuade and adapt.
The two reports complement one another. Your Elite Negotiator Index™ report does not replace the deeper Influence Profile report.
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The Influence Profile is designed to deepen self-awareness and support professional development. It is not a hiring or employee-performance test.
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