Power • Influence • Impact
If you want to become more influential, it really helps if you know the how, and the why, of influence. That way you can economise on your work as an influencer, and gain a great deal more influence. At its most basic, influence is about causing someone to take a...
Tough organisations have a tendency to grind you down. The complexity, pressure, conflicting agendas, politics and bureaucracy all combine to make rapid progress extremely difficult. I don't know what your reputational ambitions are; however, I'm pretty sure that they...
An important key to influence is being able to notice before you attempt to influence what is likely to motivate someone to want to do what you want them to do. An easy way to begin learning more about motivations is to look inwardly at how and why others are able to...
In complex leadership arenas you do not have the time to influence everyone directly. That is why you need to get very efficient and working out how to influence groups. When you can do this, you can reap the economic rewards by gaining even more influence. Before you...
Most people in leadership roles are so busy surviving that they miss opportunities to become more powerful and influential. Rather than being a shaper, they remain stuck in reaction mode. Although understandable, it is not excusable if you want to be highly...
Over nearly fifteen years, since deciding to specialise in helping people to become more influential, one of the most frequent questions I’ve been asked on the conference stage and in the conversations following a presentation is… “How do men and women differ when it...