If you want to be influential, you need to set specific outcome orientated goals for your influence. You probably have very clear goals and targets in other parts of your role, and influencing should be no different. For most people at middle to senior levels,...
Organisations vary considerably in their culture and what is tough to one may be easy to another. For instance, I recall a headmaster bemoaning how hard and tough it was in his school. After spending a little time there, to me it seemed to pale by comparison to the...
Regardless of the reason why you believe that you find it difficult to influence, an important step in overcoming the challenge is to explore it in detail. What you need to do is to take a hard look at what you are experiencing, what the causes might be and then you...
What process do you adopt when you prepare to influence others? Have you even thought about it as a process? While writing my latest book, I pulled the threads together and produced this five-step process that has a high level of common sense while also touching on...
Over the last four years on this blog I have written a great deal about how to influence others, but I have never written about how to respond when other people try to influence you, apart from how to handle the negative politics. The point is that as you become more...
To maximise your progress, recognise that your mind is likely to transform its beliefs about your goal as you continue to work towards it. Once you can see the path, you can take action to accelerate your progress along it. Here's the pathway... Want. The first...