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Exercising Influence

A Guide for Making Things Happen at Work, at Home, and in Your Community
3. Aufl.

von: B. Kim Barnes
26,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	17.06.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9781119071709
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	192

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Change minds, guide opinions, and shape emotions with the power of effective influence Exercising Influence is your guide to accomplishing more with less effort. Demystifying the process of influencing others, this book shows you how to develop effective influence behaviors, plan an influence approach, set goals, resolve problems, and build better relationships. Revised and expanded to provide more actionable advice across industries and sectors, this third edition has updated examples and resources and features all-new chapters on influencing through social media, influencing your team, and applying research findings of neuroscience, and behavioral economics.. You'll create work, family, and community relationships that are more mutually rewarding as you apply a practical, real-world model for developing this seldom-taught skill. Influence is a skillset that everyone needs, yet the necessary techniques and fundamentals are rarely made explicit and shared. This book is a vital resource for anyone who wants to achieve better outcomes at work, at home, or in the world at large, helping you make important things happen and create relationships that matter. <ul> <li>Develop a strategic and tactical approach to influence that gets results.</li> <li>Resolve problems and conflicts, and build more balanced relationships.</li> <li>Do more with less, increase your impact on others, and take greater charge of your life.</li> <li>Take advantage of new methodologies that build your skills as an influencer.</li> </ul> Influence is a timeless topic for business leaders and others in positions of power, but the world has evolved to the point where everyone needs these skills. No matter your job, role, rank, or function, if you want to get things done you need to know how to influence up, down, across, and outside the organization. With improved skills, you can steer opinions, impact decisions, and sway the undecided. If you're ready to see what you're capable of, Exercising Influence will show you how to take charge of your professional and personal life in a powerful, ethical, and productive way. <a href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119071585.html">http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119071585.html</a>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About This Book xi Acknowledgments xiii PART I Exercising Influence 1 CHAPTER 1 What We’ve Got Here Is a Failure to Influence: Dealing with Life 101 3 CHAPTER 2 What Is Influence, and Why Do We Want to Have It? The Upside and the Downside 7 CHAPTER 3 A Model for Exercising Influence: Building Relationships and Getting Results 17 CHAPTER 4 Expressive Influence: Sending Ideas and Generating Energy 25 CHAPTER 5 Receptive Influence: Inviting Ideas and Stimulating Action 33 CHAPTER 6 Influencing in Action: A World of Possibilities 43 PART II Planning for Influence 47 CHAPTER 7 Developing an Influence Plan: Design Thinking for Influence Opportunities 49 CHAPTER 8 Establishing Influence Objectives: What Will Success Look Like? 53 CHAPTER 9 Focus on the Relationship: Influence Works Both Ways 59 CHAPTER 10 Focus on the Context: The Individual 63 CHAPTER 11 Focus on the Context: System, Organization, Culture, and Timing 69 CHAPTER 12 Focus on the Context: Yourself 73 CHAPTER 13 Focus on the Issues: What’s at Stake? 77 CHAPTER 14 Choosing and Using Influence Behaviors to Achieve Your Objective: How to Create Your Approach 81 CHAPTER 15 Putting Your Plan to Work: Treating the Unexpected as an Opportunity 87 PART III Special Issues in Influence 93 CHAPTER 16 The Ethics of Influence: Doing Well by Doing Good 95 CHAPTER 17 Influencing Electronically: The Wonders and Terrors of Instant Communication 99 CHAPTER 18 Influencing through Social Media: Expanding Your Sphere of Influence 107 CHAPTER 19 Applied Influence: Making Things Happen 111 CHAPTER 20 Influencing Indirectly: Influencing beyond Your Boundaries 117 CHAPTER 21 Influencing Your Team: From One to Many 121 CHAPTER 22 Your Brain on Influence: What Neuroscience and Behavioral Economics Can Teach Us 125 Afterword: The Paradox of Failure 135 APPENDIX A Coaching Partnerships 137 APPENDIX B Influence Plan 141 APPENDIX C Meeting Processes That Support Effective Influencing 145 APPENDIX D Sentence Starters 149 APPENDIX E Influence Scenarios 151 APPENDIX F Self-Assessment 161 Resources 163 Barnes & Conti Associates, Inc. 167 Index 169

Autorenportrait

B. Kim Barnes is the CEO of Barnes & Conti Associates, an independent learning and organization development firm. She has had over 30 years of experience in the fields of management, leadership, and organization development.

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UNLOCK THE POWER OF EFFECTIVE INFLUENCE TO CHANGE MINDS, GUIDE OPINIONS, AND MOVE YOUR IDEAS INTO ACTION Exercising Influence is your hands-on guide for learning the skills and techniques that will help you get more accomplished with much less effort. B. Kim Barnes demystifies the process of influencing others and shows how to develop effective influence behaviors, establish goals and objectives, plan approaches, resolve problems, and build better relationships. This Third Edition of the bestselling book is thoroughly revised and expanded and includes more actionable advice across industries and sectors. It also contains all-new chapters on influencing through social media, influencing your team, and understanding how influence works through neuroscience and behavioral economics. By applying Exercising Influence's real-world model, you will create work, family, and community relationships that are more satisfying and mutually rewarding. This time-tested influence fitness program can be implemented alone or with others for developing more sophisticated and powerful communication skills. Exercising Influence reveals how to put into action the skills and understanding required to be an effective influencer and is filled with practical advice on preparing for, acting on, and reviewing an actual influence opportunity. Barnes also explores important issues that arise in the process of exercising your influence, as well as detailing special applications of influence skills. This vital resource is written for anyone who wants to achieve better outcomes at work, at home, or in the world at large, and offers a framework for making positive things happen and creating relationships that matter. Get ready to take charge of your life in a powerful, ethical, and productive way.