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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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Top 10 Most Read Leadership Blog Posts of First Half 2021

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Favorite Leadership Blog Posts So Far This Year. One of the interesting parts of being regular leadership writers (we’ve been blogging here at Let’s Grow Leaders since 2012), is to see which of our leadership blog posts resonate the most with our readers and why. Want Better Influence at Work?

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How to Influence others at Work

Career Advancement

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” Perception and visibility are the two pillars supporting influence. In other words, they’re prerequisites for cultivating influence over others at work. Influence—the third component of the model—does not depend on formal authority.

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Crafting Leadership Excellence: The N2Growth Approach to Executive Development

N2Growth Blog

Leaders have the responsibility and power to shape the course and outcome of their companies by influencing the organizational structure, culture, decision-making process, and employee performance. In the framework of N2Growth, Executive Development refers to this critical process of fostering leadership skills.

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What Your Organization Really Needs from You: Influence and Impact

Leading Blog

L EADERS in today’s multinational, matrixed, diverse business world have impact through their ability to influence others. When you have that kind of influence with others, the results begin to speak for themselves. If you approach this situation with a growth mindset, you can build or rebuild that influence.

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How To Create Lasting Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Understanding how to leverage the influence factor can make a defining difference in your ability to drive change, build cohesive teams, and to successfully implement strategic vision. As a leader your “Influence Quotient” is the IQ you need to pay attention to.

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