Influence People

4 keys to strengthen the ability to influence others Effective leaders don’t just command; they inspire, influence, and encourage. Leaders tap the knowledge and skills of a group, point individuals toward a common goal, and draw out a commitment to achieve results. How do they do that? We have identified the best leaders as having 4 key influencing skills: ·          Political savvy:  The leaders embrace organizational politics to move teams and important initiatives forward. ·          Self-promotion:  Leaders cut through the noise with realistic, credible self-promotion that helps others as well as themselves. ·          Building and maintaining trust:  Because leadership so often involves guiding people through risk and change, trust is essential. ·          Leveraging networks:...

How to increase the Influence at the workplace? To be an effective in organization today, leader must be able to influence people, The title of the leader alone isn’t always help to influence others, nor the formal position, What’s the best way to position yourself as an informal leader? How does the leader motivate colleagues to support the initiatives? Having influence on workplace has a clear value , its important to be able to command influence, because of the increased pressure on getting results.  Here are some tips Build connections One of the reasons that people do things for the leader , support the idea is because they like the leader. A person doesn’t need to be awesome or a person with a blown charisma , the leader just needs to have a good rapport with his colleagues . This helps the leader to let others to listen to him . So leader should work on cultivating personal connections with the colleagues, and allow them to get to know him  Listen befo...

Why should the leader care about having influence? Apart from delegating tasks to team effectively , the great leaders are able to create impact downward , across and upwards in their organization’s  chain of command . This is because of they are able to develop command of influence. Having influence is all about getting things done without exercising authority. This makes it much easier to do things like Having influence is all about getting things done without resorting to wielding your authority. This makes it much easier to do things like: ·          Getting support for your ideas from your supervisors and peers in other departments ·          Motivating your team to tackle tough or risky projects ·          Having your voice heard at higher-level strategic meetings ·          Being a volunteer or a boa...

Different department / divisions have the different theiir own policies and procedures which may or may not end up with the organization policies . As organization expands they become even more complex. With the internal employees , there are the external factors involving such as customers, vendors , business partners, suppliers and etc, all of whom have to work together to establish the goals Due to internal satisfaction and external diversity , there could be bottlenecks to getting work done , which may require cooperating cross functionality or influencing peers . in may scenarios people may be a part of a project team having to use influence to get something accomplished or get the job done, To be successful , people need to exert influence upward to sway boss, horizontally to get others assist , cooperate   and downward to convince direct report to do their very best . Influence Everyone has a boss as well as peers . To be successful , one must be able to wor...

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Hi my name is Anshu Thilakarathna , I'm working as Executive in Loyalty Governance in Dialog Axiata PLC . This blog is about how to influence people, how to motivate and build up the confidence among the employees in the Organization