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Automatic Influence: How Your Perception Influences Everything You Do

Leading Blog

Our perceptions automatically influence our feeling, and they in turn, automatically influence our actions. Erik Van Alstine takes us through the various ways the See-Feel-Act Progression influences everything we do in Automatic Influence: New Power for Change in Work and Life. Perception is powerful. Change is hard.

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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

The equation also applies to our individual capacity for positive influence (+influence). We all have the potential to have a lot more +influence if we address the common obstacles that interfere with achieving our +influence attempts. If the command center is misdirected, we might over or under influence.

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How to Scale Your Leadership for Bigger Influence and Results

Let's Grow Leaders

5 Ways to Scale Your Leadership and Motivate Your Large Team. Or, maybe you’re leading a fast-growing start-up, and it’s no longer feasible to have the direct influence you once had with every employee and customer. How do you scale your leadership, motivate your large team, and continue to get the results you need?

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Your Top 5 Motivation Questions Answered

Lead Change Blog

Susan Fowler, author, trainer, and professor, explores the lessons from her book Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does. Susan’s expert teaching is based on motivational best practices derived from solid science communicated through compelling storytelling, case studies, and real-life examples.

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Engagement and Motivating Employees

CoachStation

They then speculate unemployment will rise to 4% by 2024 in the wake of the economic slowdown influenced by rate hikes. The question begs to be asked and answered then: If we spend so Read more about Engagement and Motivating Employees […]. The risk of not getting leadership and culture ‘right’ are significant.

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Micro-Motivation: A Powerful Technique to Inspire Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Here are just a few examples of how you can use micro-motivation events: 1) New Documentation System The entire engineering organization migrated to a new documentation system to better serve clients and respond to support inquiries more quickly. Pick one or two tangible skills to work on. Schedule the special day and create anticipation.

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Motivation: To Do or Not to Do

Leading Blog

D IFFERENT things motivate different people in different ways. The more we understand the nature of how someone is motivated, the easier it is for us to adjust our communication to match up with their natural motivational tendencies. What are motivational traits? What are motivational traits?