Stage 2: Getting My Aims Known
May 24, 2023
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In the second stage of Professional Influence, your key problem is that you haven’t accessed the amplifying power of an ambitious peer group.
Tag: Conditions of Life
15 Unavoidable Conditions of Life
November 9, 2022
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When students apply for our programs, we often see an imbalance in their lives—even in the most successful achievers.
Thinking Accurately: Ethics
October 21, 2022
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To lie, cheat, or steal violates an ethic most people have about integrity, honor, or fairness. But where do we get these ethics that guide our behavior and actions? How did we come to them?
Features and Benefits must follow an Acceptance of Breakdowns
September 28, 2022
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We are often taught to sell or showcase our features and benefits, but we might disagree.
You must first produce a breakdown; features and benefits follow the acceptance of breakdowns.
Winning Presentations
September 21, 2022
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The simple objective of every Presentation is to “make or consider an offer to enter into a contract.”
Incremental Change: Slow Down to Speed Up
September 7, 2022
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If you hang around Influential U for very long, you’ll hear the mantra “slow down to speed up.” This idiom may seem counter-intuitive in a world of quick fixes, miracle pills, and the insight-addicted. However, borrowed tactics, false starts, and aimlessness lead to wasted time and wasted resources. Few have the time, energy, money, and patience to weather a meandering journey to success.
What Are Your Aims and Why Do They Matter?
August 17, 2022
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ZIG ZIGLAR famously said, “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” While many ambitious professionals have specific goals, we sometimes aren’t aimed in a direction that will ultimately help us build the career we desire, get paid what we’re worth, and not work so hard in the process. In fact, most people don’t know what they want and how to get there. If we seek to live a satisfying and comfortable life, we must confront the truth about our aims in each Condition of Life. This journey begins with carefully crafted aims that ensure that you know where you’re going.
Thinking Accurately: Career
August 10, 2022
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Career is our marketplace identity. It is how we are identified as an offer of help and value in the marketplace. Career is, in general, how we are known as an identity of value and help in our public world.
Thinking Accurately: Money
August 3, 2022
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How do we think accurately about our Money? Where do we tend to not think accurately and why does it matter? Money is the value of our help in the marketplace. Money includes currency (cash), equity, highly specialized skill, and other valuable forms of exchange that allow us the opportunity to transact in the marketplace. The more money we have, the more options, opportunities, and autonomy we enjoy.
We Must Care About Each Other’s Dreams with Jean Lloyd
July 28, 2022
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Today’s episode features Jean Lloyd who is a Cultural Architect with a unique approach as she does not prescribe a blueprint for success, because her clients are already experts in their fields. Rather Jean brings guidance and critical thinking to her clients to impact their success and they get a new, mind-bending outlook that equips