Extract from Influential Leadership: A Leader's Guide to Getting Things Done The network of relationships you have around you and your work. Without doubt, connections can make you more powerful. By connections I mean the … [Continue reading]
Position Power Explained
Extract from Influential Leadership: A Leader's Guide to Getting Things Done The roles you play and how you manoeuvre yourself into the limelight. To become powerful it certainly helps to get yourself into a good position. … [Continue reading]
Presence Power Explained
Extract from Influential Leadership: A Leader's Guide to Getting Things Done The impact you create and the feelings you stimulate when people meet you. Much is made these days of Executive Presence, and with good cause – because … [Continue reading]
Character Power Explained
Extract from Influential Leadership: A Leader's Guide to Getting Things Done The underlying traits, values and beliefs which shape your behaviour. It is difficult to estimate how influential strength of character is, but it is … [Continue reading]
Credibility Power Explained
Extract from Influential Leadership: A Leader's Guide to Getting Things Done The power derived from your professional standing and expertise. Credibility is the reliance awarded to someone based on trust and perceived expertise on the … [Continue reading]
Guilty of Annoying Your Stakeholders?
You are busy, and so are your stakeholders. Getting them on board with your ideas, liaising with them to resolve issues, all takes time. It also helps a great deal if you get on well with them. Effective working relationships smooth over the … [Continue reading]
Stakeholders: Natural Born Liars
No, I don't believe this to be the case, but you have to admit, sometimes it seems that way doesn't it? In any complex political environment (or rather, in any large organisation), you need to get to the bottom of what your stakeholders are … [Continue reading]
Individual Analysis
The purpose of this exercise is to delve deeper into the individuals who have a major influence within groups and around your work. The idea is to record your initial knowledge and look for gaps that need to be closed. For each of the headings, … [Continue reading]
Group Analysis Example
To give you more of a feel for what we mean by group analysis and the level of detail that is useful, below is an example. It is not complete, but hopefully as you read you will begin to get a feel for what the group is all about and how it is … [Continue reading]
An Audience with Your New Boss
Bosses generally don't tend to stick around too long these days, and those who do, you probably wish they didn't. Frequently, bosses, being ambitious types, get promoted or move on to more exciting opportunities. That's if they are good. If they … [Continue reading]
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