Extract from Influential Leadership: A Leader's Guide to Getting Things Done  

Those exceptional abilities you have which enable you to get things done.

  People don’t get ahead and become highly influential by being the same as everyone else. In this source, it points to the particular skills which you have which really stand out. You are not just good at these, you are exceptionally good, and others know it. These skills need to be relevant to your Leadership Arena and Read More

Extract from Influential Leadership: A Leader's Guide to Getting Things Done  

The network of relationships you have around you and your work.

  Without doubt, connections can make you more powerful. By connections I mean the Read More

Extract from Influential Leadership: A Leader's Guide to Getting Things Done  

The roles you play and how you manoeuvre yourself into the limelight.

  To become powerful it certainly helps to get yourself into a good position. Position means much more that simply being given a particular role or title by your organisation, even though this type of position is the most understood and easy to recognise. Beyond this, you have people who are given temporary Read More

Extract from Influential Leadership: A Leader's Guide to Getting Things Done  

The impact you create and the feelings you stimulate when people meet you.

  Much is made these days of Executive Presence, and with good cause – because it is a source of considerable power and influence. It is usually described vaguely as a collection of characteristics which combine to create and aura around the executive making them immediately noticeable. When they glide into the room, everyone immediately feels and responds to their presence. When it comes to becoming powerful as a leader Read More