Power • Influence • Impact

How to Develop Your Personal Power

Personal power provides you with a short cut to influence without the need to rely upon the use of political tactics. If you have sufficient power, people will do what you need them to do without you having to try too hard.

Put another way, personal power is about gaining more control over what happens in your life — it enables you to be able to decide what you want to have happen in a particular situation. It doesn’t mean that you always get your way, or that you should always get your way. Instead, it is increasing the potential that you have to influence things in a way that is convenient to you.

You should also bear in mind that power is not necessarily an ugly concept. Two people can have identical power and use it differently depending on their morals and agenda, and it is the ethical stance which makes the use of power good or bad. Using your personal power to help others, provide greater value to your customers and colleagues and make the world a better place is certainly an activity to be encouraged!

This guide brings together the key resources in the blog which can help you to become more powerful.

Background Reading

  • [intlink id=”1048″ type=”post”]Are You Powerful Enough? [/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”1511″ type=”post”]How To Influence People Without Even Trying[/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”187″ type=”post”]Seven Ways to Become More Powerful[/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”338″ type=”post”]The Components of Power[/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”2083″ type=”post”]Nine Sources of Personal Power[/intlink].

Exercises

  • [intlink id=”3369″ type=”post”]Developing Your Personal Power[/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”3362″ type=”post”]What Personal Power You Have?[/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”3368″ type=”post”]What Power Do You Need?[/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”2093″ type=”post”]How Power Works in Your Organisation[/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”2105″ type=”post”]Informal Groups in Your Organisation[/intlink].

Further Reading

  • [intlink id=”177″ type=”post”]Promotion Power Shifts[/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”448″ type=”post”]Power Vacuums and Unstable Systems [/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”1179″ type=”post”]Using Social Capital to Build Political Muscle [/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”1381″ type=”post”]Are You Wasting Your Time When You Try to Influence? [/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”1637″ type=”post”]How To Be A Powerful Leader Without Alienating People[/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”2111″ type=”post”]Group, Organisational, Formal and Informal Power[/intlink].
  • [intlink id=”2546″ type=”post”]What Is Group Power? How to Influence Strategically[/intlink].

 

 

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