Street Fighter or Visionary: What’s Your Political MO?
Analysing the customary manner in which a stakeholder approaches organisational politics can give you insights into how they may respond to any move you make, and how you can adjust your own approach to be more effective with them.
Reflecting this back on your own Modus Operandi can also provide early warning of flash points between you and the stakeholder, or indeed, between them an other stakeholders.
All of which will enable you to be more effective at engaging and influencing in Read More
Early Warning: A Political Storm is Brewing
Opportunity of a Lifetime?
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 have just been told to get them on board.
The trouble is, you can’t meet with them face-to-face.
How are you going to make it happen? Read More
Feedback: When Will You Stop Asking?
Going to stick my neck out on this one. And, if you start reading this, I need you to read to the end.
At junior levels you need feedback because you are learning. You are encouraged to ask.
This creates a strong habit, which is useful, until you reach the level at which...
...people expect you to know what you are doing.
From then on, asking for feedback screams that you are unsure. Read More
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 in all probability, help you to develop faster.
It will also help to reduce the stresses and strains that usually accompany a rising level of responsibility. Read More
How to Maximise Your Promotion Prospects
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 finding the time to focus on your career development, preparing yourself for the next step, exposing yourself to the potential call from a headhunter, is also a top priority.
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 and the author. For me, the three most distinct characteristics of an executive mindset are: Read More
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