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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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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. In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning. When you have that kind of influence with others, the results begin to speak for themselves. In other words, you have impact on the organization.

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The 4 Origins of Influence

Lead Change Blog

If you influence others, I can think of four possible origins. Many can influence our behavior because they have a position. You see many today resisting traditional positional influence. It is the lowest common denominator in leadership. Influence based on power is a close second on the leadership food chain.

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Leadership & Influence

N2Growth Blog

You cannot be a effective leader without influence. Let me make this as simple as I can – if you’re a leader, influence needs to be a competency. The key to developing influence is understanding that contacts and relationships are not synonymous. Don’t confuse a database with a sphere of influence.

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Essential Leadership Emotions with Reiner Lomb

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever wondered what the most essential leadership competencies are and how they can be learned without taking up too much time? 19:41 Resentment is an emotion that leads to our mental energy being stuck in the past, so we cannot look forward and cannot feel optimism or any other emotion that is associated with the future.

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The Best Leadership Articles of 2021 (according to you)

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year we take a really close look at our human-centered, practical leadership content that is resonating with you. These are your favorite leadership articles of 2021 based on views and shares. What leadership articles would you like us to write about more in the coming year?

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Is the way you (or your people) are showing up ruining your sales/influence/leadership abilities?

Anese Cavanaugh

If you are working with customers, hiring (and retaining) people, leading people, selling products or services, applying for a new job or promotion, enrolling people in an idea, or essentially wanting to influence anyone about anything — you are in "sales." (I Why you maybe missing your mark in sales and leadership. Something was off.

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