The best leaders are those who can successfully influence up, down and across the organization, impacting business results by driving behavior change.
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It might come as a surprise to say that trainers within an organization succeed with the same mindset and the same skills as the leaders of the organization. After all, leaders are the strategic, big-picture thinkers at the top of the organization.
Formal definitions aside, management is what you do when you are responsible for influencing others and have experience that is directly relevant to the task, process and journey.
Everyone wants to build a culture of leadership. Knowing the ins and outs of influence can make the difference between a training program's success or failure.
Leadership is an important quality in life that is learned and refined through years of experience.
In 1991, Professor Joseph Rost published a painstakingly well-researched manuscript titled “Leadership for the Twenty-First Century.” A sizable portion of Dr. Rost’s treatise reviews and classifies definitions of leadership that have been identified...
A healthcare manager-practitioner participating in one of my live sessions laid a challenge down last week, “What is my return for taking the time to target and map the core of my team? What can I expect to get back and what’s in it for my...
My previous blog outlined the foundational concept of freeing yourself of problem situations, in an effort to better leverage a limited resource (your influence energies and time).
Consider ‘normal’ distribution. It states that in most situations with a population of any real size, we can pretty much count on results being distributed across a bell-shaped curve with 15 percent at one end, 15 percent at the other, and the rest...
I have been asked countless times in leadership sessions; ‘How do I get my boss to…?’ They essentially ask, ‘How can I influence someone over whom I have no authority?’