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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

Potential – Interference = Performance I FIRST encountered this equation in the context of peak performance in the sports world. The equation also applies to our individual capacity for positive influence (+influence). If the command center is misdirected, we might over or under influence. Low awareness.

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Leading with Your Full Self – Interview with Ellen Robinson

Let's Grow Leaders

In this episode, you’ll meet Ellen Robinson, former General Manager for Denver Pepsi Cola and President of Ascent Sports (owners of the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche). She will help you look at your leadership through a different lens and give […].

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7 Ways Leadership is Like Sports

Modern Servant Leader

Anyone can practice leadership or sports, but not everyone will succeed. Not everyone has the same capacity for sports or leadership. Hard work, efficient management, and knowledge can only bring us so far.” ” Here are 7 ways that leadership and sports are alike: 1. Sports and leadership are no exception.

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Effectively Influencing Decision Makers

Marshall Goldsmith

Here are 11 guidelines that will help you do a better job of influencing decision-makers, whether these decision-makers are immediate or upper managers, peers or cross-organizational colleagues. In many ways, influencing ultimate decision-makers is similar to selling products or services to external customers.

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3 Strategies to Build Inclusive Teams

N2Growth Blog

If you’ve ever played a team sport like soccer or basketball, you quickly learn that while it is helpful to have an “all-star” player, the best teams leverage the talents of all their players on the field and elevate everyone’s game in order to consistently win.

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Influencing Up

Marshall Goldsmith

Organizations suffer when key people can't effectively influence up. Although knowledge workers may know more about what they are doing than their managers do and have years of education and experience, they rarely know how to effectively influence up. Influencing up is similar to selling products or services to customers.

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The Unspoken Role of Confidence in Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Whilst leading the organisation does often come with a title – like CEO or Managing Director – leading a group of people does not. The latter, because of its lack of position power, implies the ability to influence without it. Secondly, to lead in the sense described above requires influence, but this requires confidence.