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How Effective Are You at Using Your Power?

Lead Change Blog

Build your reputation as the “go-to” person in your area of expertise. Personal Power. Leaders with personal power are often described as having charisma. You can build your personal power by being warm, friendly, sociable, confident, and optimistic. Keep up-to-date in your expertise.

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Situational Leadership®: Trust and the Employee Experience

The Center For Leadership Studies

This is the fourth and final blog in a series dedicated to the connections between Situational Leadership ® and the employee experience. The second blog in this series explored the relationship between Situational Leadership ® and meaningful work. The third focused on links between Situational Leadership ® and strong management.

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Transparency in the Workplace

The Center For Leadership Studies

When you assess the effectiveness of leadership in an organization, there are a handful of parameters you seek to evaluate: Trust : Do employees believe what they are being told? Do they have confidence in the integrity of their leadership? Leadership is an attempt to influence. Power is influence potential.

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How to Recognize a Trustworthy Leader

Lead from Within

At its best, leadership inspires people to pull together collectively to achieve something great. That kind of inspiration requires a trustworthy leader—one who treats leadership not as a source of personal power but as a channel for serving others. The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness.

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The Elements of Power - CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Thursday, January 27, 2011 The Elements of Power It is beautiful here. If I were a more frivolous person, I would be building a snowman or having a good snowball fight. I read a great book The Elements of Power - Lessons on Leadership and Influence by Terry Bacon.

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10 Bad Mistakes You Can Make as A New Boss

Lead from Within

If you have plans of becoming a manager or taking on any leadership position, you can help yourself tremendously by being aware of the mistakes that hurt the reputations and relationships of new bosses. Here are the ten most common that I see in my work as a leadership coach. Abusing power. Poor communication.

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The POWER of Sales Success. It’s all within you!

Strategy Driven

Last week I talked about the power of sales success and gave you the first ten personal powers you need to possess in order to have all of the sales success you desire. As a professional salesperson, you want more selling power and this two-part article reveals the sources. The power of reputation and social brand.

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