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How Effective Are You at Using Your Power?

Lead Change Blog

The more power you have, the more able you are to direct, influence, and inspire people to make positive changes. There are three types of power. Position Power. You gain power based on your formal position in the organization. The chain of command gives you power over the people below.

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Four Sources of Personal Power in Organizations

Change Starts Here

To be an effective change agent, you must have some power within your organization. In general, power is the energy to make something happen. In the context of an organization, your personal power directly impacts your ability to influence change. Having power provides benefits that help you implement change.

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Business Politics Practices – Creating a Power Position Environment

Strategy Driven

Successfully exercising personal power for political gain requires overcoming those who would oppose you. Winning these engagements, both strategic and tactical, becomes far easier when starting from a position of power. Buy access to Business Politics Practices – Creating a Power Position Environment for just $2!

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5 Tips for Inspiring Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Karlin Sloan: As a leadership development consultant, I have spent my career with people in business, NGOs, government, and not-for-profits who are focused, competent, talented and who have a deep sense of their personal power to impact those around them. Recently, those same people are having doubts.

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Leading Women: Secrets to Leadership, Business and Life

Skip Prichard

Do women face a unique relationship with power? How do women unlock their personal power? Her new book Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business and Life is aimed at helping women maximize personal power and improve their self-esteem and business success.

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Powers of Organizations

Leadership and Change

Being aware of your power and how power alters your own and others’ reactions helps to handle power well. This is important for everyone that wants to develop a positive culture at work. If you want to look at your personal power: check my first post about power.

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Do You Have the Courage to be Humble?

Lead Change Blog

His promises to provide jobs, education, and even rewards prompted positive responses from his employees. He intended to give the employees personal power over their own careers and the business. Bill failed to realize that his paternalistic “take care of my employees” attitude disempowered the people he worked to develop.