If you feel bad about office politics that go on around you, you are certainly not alone. In any group of more than one, people will be trying to influence each other and some people use less savoury tactics or dirty tricks, in order to get their … [Continue reading]
Influencing Skills: The Seven Dimensions of Influence
The Influencing Skills Survey is a self-assessment and 360° feedback tool used to determine the level of influencing skills you are demonstrating. It is based on research by Colin Gautrey and contains 42 different skills which were found to be … [Continue reading]
Exercise: Influencing Skills Development Priorities
If you are interested in becoming more influential, you can use the explored in the Influencing Skills Survey to focus you attention where it will yield the greatest result. There is no point spending lots of time developing a skill if you it will … [Continue reading]
Interpreting Your Influencing Skills Report
If you have a report, you will see that it is fairly self-explanatory. It has been designed to be easy to understand, yet a few things are worth explaining. Each of the 42 items has been scored between 0 and 5 to gauge the level of agreement … [Continue reading]
Exercise: Organisational Risks and Opportunities
This is another opportunity to stimulate your thinking about the risks and opportunities that might have an impact on what you are working on. Unless you have a clear view (albeit perhaps a little vague), you will keep your head down and try to … [Continue reading]
Exercise: Risk and Opportunity Action
Without doubt, this is probably the key skill which will save you from making big mistakes in the project and influence game. This exercise will help you to understand what your options are based on the risks you face and perhaps, the opportunities … [Continue reading]
Exercise: Assessing Risks and Opportunities
Make sure and be prudent when it comes to investing in assessing the risks you face, and also, the opportunities which might otherwise pass you by. This exercise will help you to get to grips with this topic.To begin, ask … [Continue reading]
Analysing Risks and Spotting Opportunities
One of the dangers of focusing on people and relationships in the is that it draws attention away from events which could happen. High impact events are fairly evident, but not always anticipated, or planned for. Quite often, events pass by without … [Continue reading]
Leaders: Bullies by Nature or Nurture?
Many of the behaviours exhibited by leaders can easily be classified as bullying behaviours, especially when many of them converge to form the essence of a leader’s style. In a recent article, I cited which could be viewed as legitimate yet prone to … [Continue reading]
Business Partners: How to Influence the Relationship
NB: This is a large guide and will take you quite a while to work through all the elements over several weeks. When I say business partners, I am referring to many different types of relationship, including outsourcing providers, suppliers, and … [Continue reading]
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