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How Effective Are You at Using Your Power?

Lead Change Blog

Position power allows you to do the following: Reward and Recognize People —Dole out desirable things to employees such as pay increases, bonuses, promotions, public recognition, time off, and opportunities to attend top-tier training programs. Build your reputation as the “go-to” person in your area of expertise.

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Three Reasons Why The Situational Leadership® Approach Is Effective

The Center For Leadership Studies

Practical and Understandable When learners attend their first Situational Leadership ® training, two things (almost invariably) occur: They come to grips with something they have been doing as a leader that they need to adjust. A big part of transferring any kind of training takes place during the training itself.

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Transparency in the Workplace

The Center For Leadership Studies

Power comes in two forms: Legitimate or Position Power Personal or the Power of Trust Generally speaking, Directive styles of leadership leverage Legitimate Power, while Collaborative styles leverage Personal Power. And Situational Leadership ® continues to help leaders do just that!

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The ROLE of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership Today

The Center For Leadership Studies

If you don’t have a good grasp of the emotions that “make you tick and tick you off,” you will not have a solid foundation on which to establish personal power , let alone positional power , with those you seek to lead. (links to blogs 1 & 2 here) In the EQi-2.0® MANAGE OTHERS. The other three realms of the EQi-2.0

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Situational Leadership®: Trust and the Employee Experience

The Center For Leadership Studies

Your reputation: Personal power (sometimes referred to as Referent power ) is the comparative degree of trust and commitment you have earned with those you attempt to influence. Leaders that make poor decisions, or abuse their authority, do not. Effective leadership builds trust—and trust positions leaders to be effective!

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Give Your Employees a Knife

Lead Change Blog

Since personal power is already present in every employee, empowerment is not a gift given by the leader. The job of the leader is to release power. Think of your leadership job as a liberator…removing obstacles that keep employees from using their personal power. When leaders ask, “How do I empower my employees?”

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Why Companies Hire an External Consultant to Help Them

Strategy Driven

Vested interests and personal power plays may at best limit thinking. This training makes any change sustainable by transferring knowledge from the consultant to the company. They are psychologically free to make the change happen and get help others to do so too. Independent Party. Knowledge Transfer. Problem to Solve?