To be successful in your career, you need to be able to influence other people. This involves developing personal power. You will want people to think positively about what you do, listen and accept your ideas and also do things that you need them to do. This can include influencing someone to give you a job or promotion, delivering a key project where you need their input and help or even advocating your skills and talent to other more senior people. Little can be achieved without the ability to influence others. One of the key ways of growing greater influence is to focus on building your personal power. Power doesn't equal politics, so you don't need to become a Machiavellian character to introduce more power into your career — nor do you need to betray your integrity! In a nutshell… Read More