The thinking you have done so far in the process is likely to be useless unless you get active. Careful preparation before you engage your stakeholders will increase the probability that you’ll achieve your goal. And this stage is all about preparation. It explores a...
It is one of the most natural things in the world to be preoccupied with your own ideas and plans. If this spreads into the way you engage with stakeholders, it isn’t going to get you very far. It is essential to translate your own ideas and goals into words and...
This part of the Stakeholder Influence Process usually begins to happen quite naturally as you are analysing each individuals position. Yet what usually happen is that the initial ideas for action are unlikely to be the more appropriate or effective. Here you will...
If you give it a half decent go, you will quickly start to notch up the benefits. Over the years, I have seen people achieve remarkable advances in a very short space of time in so many different areas. For example, clients have been able to… Focus their time on what...
The Stakeholder Influence Process is a sequence of steps which will help you work out what you need to do to achieve your goals when they are reliant on the agreement of other powerful people. It provides a simple framework to think through the situation you wish to...
Research is consistent the world over that in just about every walk of life it really helps if you are influential, and this is particularly true of people who work in leadership roles. Some people have gone so far as to say that Leadership = Influence and while it is...