What power(s) does your instructor have? What influence tactics does your instructor use to motivate you to learn? Describe a time in the last week that someone influenced you to do something you would not otherwise have done. What influence tactic(s) did she or he use? Is another persons ethics important to you in your decision to allow that person to influence you? Why or why not? How can you ethically use power, influence, and politics to get a promotion? Have you ever tried to influence your boss to do something? What upward influence tactics did you try? Were you successful? Why or why not? Are office politics bad? Why or why not? How do you use impression management at work?