Power • Influence • Impact

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

For a number of reasons I do not accept public comments on my blog. It is not because I don’t want to hear from you — I definitely want to engage with you as you are growing in influence. Here is one example which I am sharing with you exactly as it happened (no...

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Identifying Powerful Stakeholders

In , you will have begun to lay out the groups within your organisational environment, with a natural emphasis on those which are more closely connected with your purpose. [intlink...

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Adapting Your Style of Influence

As you grow up and experience the world you begin to learn what works and what does not work. When you find something that works, you will tend to repeat it until such time as it is proven conclusively that it no longer works for you. This is how personality evolves...

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Preparing to Persist

A few articles ago I pointed out that one of the most common influencing mistakes is . Allied to that is another mistake ― giving up too easily. Many people can think through situations, develop...

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Safeguarding Your Reputation Building

As you begin to create a disturbance with your reputation building, others may become uncomfortable with the change in the way you are operating. The status quo has gone, and they may be more, or less, happy with the new challenge you are presenting. In the last...

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Failing to Attempt Influence

There are many common mistakes when it comes to influencing. In the work I do, arguably the most common one I see is that of not knowing what you want to achieve (I covered this in the first article in this series, Exactly What Do You...

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