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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.

Influence and the Relevance of Experience

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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.
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...

Targeting Your Influence Part 3

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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...

Targeting Your Influence, Part 2

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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).

Targeting Your Influence, Part 1

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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...

Influence Without Authority

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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?’