{"id":110,"date":"2012-10-04T14:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T14:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cjwalshblog.wordpress.com\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2012-10-04T14:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T14:57:04","slug":"developing-influence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/executive-professional-mba\/tips-for-developing-emotional-self-awareness\/developing-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>What is Influence?<\/strong>\u00a0 Your ability to persuade, convince or impact others to get them to go along with or support your agenda.\u00a0 It is based on your desire to have a specific impact or effect on others.<\/p>\n

There are four levels of Influence: <\/strong>The first level of Influence is being able to engage an audience.\u00a0 The next level is when you anticipate how your actions and words will impact a group.\u00a0 The third level is when you use indirect influence in order to accomplish your goal.\u00a0 Finally, the highest level of Influence is when you practice developing support behind the scenes, not just when the people gather for a meeting.<\/p>\n

You are influential if\u00a0<\/strong> you can take people who know nothing about a subject, get them interested, and send them away feeling that they\u2019ve learned something important or useful from you.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0You may want to improve your influencing skills if<\/strong> you aren’t able to defend a good idea, if people don’t remember what you said or talk over the top of you, or if you only like to work alone.<\/p>\n

The most effective way to develop Influence is <\/strong>to identify someone who you think is strong at influencing.<\/p>\n

Identify someone in your organization who is adept at influencing.\u00a0 Ask the person to help you understand situations where they need to exert influence and have them tell you how they do it.\u00a0 What steps do they take?\u00a0 How does s\/he know who to influence and what factors to focus on?\u00a0 What were the outcomes? You will be surprised that people are often quite conscious of what they are doing to influence others.\u00a0 In fact, you might want to talk with a couple of people who are good at this.<\/p>\n

Yes!:<\/strong> 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive <\/strong>by Goldstein, Martin and Cialdini <\/em>is a good book for specific suggestions.\u00a0 If you prefer to learn the science along with the framework, try Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion<\/strong> by Cialdini.<\/em>\u00a0 In fact, Cialdini’s website, http:\/\/www.influenceatwork.com\/<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>has an online quiz and a helpful pocket guide in the online store that you can keep in your wallet.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it takes practice to improve your influencing abilities.\u00a0 And you need to keep track of your efforts<\/strong> and how each instance turns out.\u00a0 You want to be able to look back and see your success over time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is Influence?\u00a0 Your ability to persuade, convince or impact others to get them to go along with or support your agenda.\u00a0 It is based on your desire to have a specific impact or effect on others. There are four Continue reading Developing Influence<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":91,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/executive-professional-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/executive-professional-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/executive-professional-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/executive-professional-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/executive-professional-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/executive-professional-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/executive-professional-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/executive-professional-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}