This week’s eCoaching will focus on the art of agitating indifference to break through complacency and drive action. You’ll learn how to identify pain points, connect with core values, and create a sense of urgency that compels others to engage, make decisions, and move forward quickly.
Influencing without authority is crucial in many professional and personal settings where formal power is absent, but you still need to sway opinions or encourage action.
In Stage 4 of Professional Influence, we state, “An ambitious professional in this stage needs both incremental change and total proactive reinvention.”
Robert Cialdini identified the 7 Levers of Influence that people use to persuade others: reciprocity, commitment or consistency, consensus or social proof, authority, liking, scarcity, and unity. These levers have become widely used for persuasion since the book’s first publication many decades ago.
When it comes to getting people to take action, every exchange is an opportunity to persuade them.
How do we apply these levers in our transactions?
 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
Specialization, in economic terms, is about focusing on one thing vs multiple things. It builds higher value and better returns. What do most people get wrong about specialization?
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?
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.
Although each of us must transact to live a satisfying and comfortable life, most fail the fundamentals of transaction; they cannot influence others, labor far more than they’d like, and don’t make the money they could.
