Private Insights on Influence

Influencing People Remotely

Here’s a contemporary workplace challenge. You need to get someone bought in to your vision, project plan or endorsing a decision you need made. They may report to you, either dotted or solid line. Perhaps they are a member of your virtual project team, or you may...

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Executive Mindset: Seven Obstacles

As you strive to develop your executive mindset, keep aware of the obstacles. Then you will have more opportunity to mitigate them, and critically, you will be able to take action now to avoid them troubling you. This will prime you for success, reduce your risks and...

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How to Maximise Your Promotion Prospects

If you’re interested in being promoted, especially to the most senior levels, there are a great many things you need to do. Since I don’t know the specifics of your situation, I cannot predict exactly what you need to do. What I can tell you though, is you probably...

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Developing Your Executive Career

As an executive, or a talented individual heading for the executive level, your first priority is always to deliver results and meet expectations, in your current role. I’m sure you’ll agree that this is no easy task in today’s climate. Yet you’ll also agree that...

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The Executive Mindset

If you aspire to become an executive, want to be selected as one, and want to succeed at the highest levels, you need to develop and cultivate the right mindset and begin to think like an executive. Exactly what this means depends on the environment, your personality...

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Simple Rules for Influence: Part 3

Finally in this series, I want to focus on three rules that will help guide your behaviour as you're out there doing your influencing. As you're going out there, talking to the people that you need to influence, starting to move forward on your objective, these three...

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