Influence is one of the most powerful tools that we can use to affect our professional and personal life.
Unfortunately, we are not born with the natural talent to be influential. It’s a craft that is nurtured until mastered. Sadly, the mastery of influence is shrouded in limiting confidence, and battled by resistance that others will impose.
I know this battle well. The struggle to influence your personal life as well as your professional life is hard. There is no the right way to take; you must simply take the path. But, more importantly, you have to do the job.
Influence is a non-negotiable skill in business and leadership. Influence is how you get matters done in flatter, less hierarchical organizations, and it also can be a crucial element to advancing your career. And while most leaders appreciate the essential of influence, many have mindsets and self-limiting beliefs that get in the path of their ability to influence.
Much has been written about the core principles of influence, which are essential to understand. But unless you also identify and change the mindsets that limit you, learning influence skills and models likely won’t get you as far as you want. When it comes to influence, as in many domains, boost your inner game can enable and amplify a positive shift in your outer game, how you appear and the results you achieve.
Why is Positive Influence important?
Positive influence creates an affirmaive, optimistic, and constructive participation and experience a people has in their work, family, and community, which results in a happy person!
Positive influence means living your life as an example, that will contribute to someone else’s success. Don’t be scare to explore opportunities and engage in activities that maintain you stretched beyond your comfort zones.
Here are the top three ways you can instantly and positively influence the others , including yourself.
- Inspire change. Show how people can use a particular strength to de velopa weakness. For example, an individual may exhibit a strong tendency to take risks, that are well thought-out and productive. They can use this strength to create a weakness, such as fear of commitment. Commitment (weakness) can come effortless when they realize that thinking through what is expected of them, and what exactly they can contribute (risk taking) turns making a commitment into a strength.
- Motivating a sense of purpose. Appeal to a person’s passion to get involved in their passion. Show your confidence in a person to use their abilities, talents, and skill set to fulfill their sense of purpose. Human will rise to the occasion, when they find what they are passionate about, or see as a need to fulfill, especially on a huge scale.
- Develop a demand. Open the doors for person to realize that something is missing. Assist people see and recognize how what they have to offer will make a difference. For instance, bring to their attention a condition that demands their great communication skills, expert negotiation talent, or capability to be innovative in the midst of problems.
