...first learn what it means! If you are new to leadership or have been a leader for a little while, you can improve your skills by investing some time in developing your own definition of leadership. Of course, there are lots of fine definitions … [Continue reading]
Focusing Your Stakeholder Management
Becoming more strategic at managing and influencing your stakeholders requires that you take a structured approach to your work. The first step of the Stakeholder Influence Process requires that you get very clear on exactly what you want to … [Continue reading]
How to Protect Your Integrity
Integrity is about behaving consistently with a set of deeply held values and beliefs. Put another way, it means being true to yourself and usually involves a strong moral code relating to the way you interact with and treat other people (and … [Continue reading]
Exercise: How to Define Agendas Influencing Your Work
As you begin to identify the people who are most influential around your project, a vital consideration is their agenda. Figuring out what this is might at first sight appear easy; however, going beyond the professional agenda and into the realms of … [Continue reading]
Understanding Conflict between Personal and Professional Agendas
When others don’t want to cooperate or are working against you, “conflicting agendas” are often cited as the cause. This seems to signal a barrier to success, an explanation of why you can’t get the things done – or is it an excuse? A more helpful … [Continue reading]
Exercise: What Does Trust Mean to You?
Given the complexities of trust, especially when it comes to relationships, it is important to get a very clear fix on exactly what it is and what it means to you. This exercise will help to equip you to be able to build trust more effectively, and … [Continue reading]
Exercise: Protecting Integrity
Take a blank piece of paper and quickly brainstorm all of the things which you think are important values/beliefs when dealing with other people (e.g. “tell the truth even if it hurts”; “treat people as humans not numbers”; “you’ve got to be cruel to … [Continue reading]
Are You a Bully? Are You Sure You Aren’t?
Hmmm, what are you doing here ― reading this? If you’ve been attracted by the title of this, there is a fair chance you may have a nagging feeling that something may be wrong. I’d also guess that you are generally a caring sort of person too, full … [Continue reading]
Consorting with the Enemy
If you want to reduce your stress when managing stakeholders, realise that you do not necessarily have to go into battle with your enemies and adversaries. Many diligent and capable people spend an unnecessary amount of time and energy engaging with … [Continue reading]
Are You an Ethical Influencer? 21 Questions
It is very rare that I meet an unethical influencer ― thankfully! However, there are many I meet whom I wonder about. They operate on the fringes of integrity, in my view. Trouble is, as I have explained elsewhere, integrity means different things to … [Continue reading]
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