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Master of Influence: Your Mastery Level

January 12, 2025 by Colin Gautrey

Calculate Your Influence Score

Now it’s time to total your score! Add up the numbers from all 10 sections and check where you land on the Master of Influence Scale below. Your result will help you identify where you stand today and guide you toward the next stage of your influence journey.

🔹 Apprentice (0-50): Learning the Foundations

You’re in the early stages of your journey, learning the basics of influence. You may be experimenting with different approaches but haven’t yet refined your technique. Every master was once an apprentice—the key is deliberate practice.

🔹 What This Means for You:

✔ Focus on building self-awareness and understanding power dynamics.
✔ Develop foundational relationship-building and communication skills.
✔ Begin observing how influence works around you and learning from others.

👉 Explore Development Resources for Apprentices…

🔹 Adept (51-75): Strengthening Your Influence

You have strong influence skills and are developing a strategic approach, but mastery takes time. Like a skilled craftsman, you are refining your technique, learning to adapt your influence style across different situations.

🔹 What This Means for You:

✔ Strengthen strategic thinking and decision-making to expand your influence.
✔ Improve your ability to adapt and tailor your approach to different people.
✔ Start thinking about long-term influence positioning within your organisation.

👉 Explore Development Resources for Adepts…

🔹 Master (76+): Effortless & Strategic Influence

You have reached an elite level of influence—moving through complex environments with poise, adjusting seamlessly to different personalities and power structures. True mastery takes over 10,000 hours of practice, and you are well on your way.

🔹 What This Means for You:

✔ Fine-tune your high-level influence strategies to maximise your impact.
✔ Build influence at scale by shaping organisational or industry-wide dynamics.
✔ Strengthen your ability to mentor others and solidify your leadership reputation.

👉 Explore Development Resources for Masters…

What’s Next?

Your result isn’t fixed—influence is a skill that can be developed and refined over time. Regardless of where you landed today, the key is to take deliberate action to level up your influence skills. Click the relevant link above to start your next stage of development!

 

 

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