The term “Deliberate Practice” is defined in the recommended book Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin. We aren’t fit for most things we aspire to accomplish; a focus on fitness makes us uncommon.
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Our Stages of Professional Influence first states to focus on “Amplifying the value of your help” (remember this bit, it’s important) to start getting noticed for your value, not just your time. What is “the value of your help?” You begin by understanding the value of your general and specialized knowledge while amping the value (and lowering the cost) of your dominant Personality and Transactional Behavior.
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Haven’t we been here before? We all know the experience: Things are moving in the right direction, then suddenly it feels like we’re taking two steps back.
Professional Influence is our ability to design the rewarding career we desire. We each move through the five stages of professional influence and identify the key problems that keep us stuck at any stage. But are you fit to refocus your career and redefine what winning looks like? How do you get fit for the next stage?
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Do you thrive on creating new ideas or do you prefer completing a series of tasks? Perhaps freedom is all that matters? Or do you instead seek security? We sometimes find ourselves engaged in exchanges where our approach doesn’t work well with other personalities. Why?
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How do you expand your influence? What does this mean?
How do you mitigate your cost? The cost of what?
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Ambition is not a dirty word. It is simply a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work. Ambition gets a good reputation when you demonstrate you have a say in how your life goes. Ambition gets a bad reputation when you try to succeed at all costs. Which are you?
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We offer an introduction to Transactional Intelligence™. Transactionalism is the philosophy that grounds Transactional Intelligence: the knowledge and skill required to invent, present, fulfill, and complete specific exchanges utilizing a transactional approach.
Influential U’s Programs concentrate on the Transactional Intelligence™ required to satisfy our aims for career, money, health, and more. Our advanced programs are a higher education in transactional competence designed to satisfy all the conditions of life in their totality.
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We have entered a new era. The pandemic has revealed the true promise of the internet—to work when, where and how we want. The metaphor of climbing the corporate ladder is a relic, replaced with a career that is ours to define. Professional Influence is our ability to design the rewarding career we desire. Explore the five stages of professional influence and identify the key problems that keep us stuck at any stage. Refocus your career and redefine what winning looks like.
What stage are you?
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Professional Influence is about taking charge of your career. It is about having work, work for you – on your terms, and to be as rewarded and influential as you choose. While some may think of this as getting ahead, climbing the ladder, or growing a business, Professional Influence is about your ability to effectively transact for your aims across a broad range of Conditions of Life.
There are no limits, no right way; it’s yours to define.
Be more influential, more rewarded, and more U.
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