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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Working With a Micro-Manager
Working with (or under) a boss who micro-manages is tough. The lack of trust they are displaying, or rather, you are feeling, can be completely demoralising - at best! And this is far more common than you may realise. Most people in these … [Continue reading]
Five Reasons Why You May Lack Visibility
If you are struggling for visibility, find yourself overlooked when it comes to promotions or new opportunities, or otherwise failing to attract the right sort of attention from senior people, you have a big problem on your hands. I’m not going to … [Continue reading]
Working With an Insecure Boss
Bosses come in many shapes and forms, not all of them are conducive to living a fulfilling and satisfying working life. One accusation I have heard from many disenfranchised subordinates is that their boss is really insecure, "I think he my feel … [Continue reading]
When should you be autocratic as a leader?
Contrary to what many people would like to believe, there is a place for being autocratic in the workplace as I pointed out in my article Command and Control: Alive and Kicking. The challenge though, is knowing when to be autocratic, and how to do … [Continue reading]
In Here, They All Ask What You Do
It must be part of their approach, but just about everyone here seems curious to know what I do for a living. Which is a welcome distraction. And an opportunity to use this experience to reflect more on how people influence. The nurse on the left … [Continue reading]
How Power Conditions Your Behaviour
A critical aspect of influence that you have to pay heed to is that power shapes the decisions in a given group, at a personal and group level. This means that it will shape the decisions you make and, the behaviours you choose to use. For … [Continue reading]
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