Colin Gautrey

Being Influential and Avoiding Catastrophes

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The more influential you become, the more at risk you will be. For all sorts of reasons, the likelihood that you will end up in trouble rises along with your influence. As you grow in influence, you also need to raise your awareness of the risks. This will help you to minimise their impact, and also, prepare you for swift action if things get tricky. Here's the dilemma: As you become more influential, where will you draw the line? At what point will you say it is wrong to influence, even though you know you can? What ends justify what means? Tough questions to try to answer, yet vital to be able to answer instantly in Read More

Exercise: Organisational Risks and Opportunities

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This is another opportunity to stimulate your thinking about the risks and opportunities that might have an impact on what you are working on. Unless you have a clear view (albeit perhaps a little vague), you will keep your head down and try to deliver on your project objective, rather than become more influential and successful.

Take a few moments to brainstorm Read More

Exercise: Risk and Opportunity Action

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Without doubt, this is probably the key skill which will save you from making big mistakes in the project and influence game. This exercise will help you to understand what your options are based on the risks you face and perhaps, the opportunities you may be missing! NB: Don;t forget to print out (or draw) the diagram below and map out your risks and opportunities. Think carefully Read More

Analysing Risks and Spotting Opportunities

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One of the dangers of focusing on people and relationships in the Stakeholder Influence Process is that it draws attention away from events which could happen. High impact events are fairly evident, but not always anticipated, or planned for. Quite often, events pass by without being noticed for their potential to help or hinder the project you are working on. For this reason, taking at least a quick glance at this potential could show ways to accelerate your project, or move out of the way of things which could damage your progress. To avoid over-complicating things, a risk is an event which could have a negative impact on your objective and an opportunity is an event which could have a positive impact. The greater the impact (positive or negative) and the higher the Read More

Avoiding Risks and Seizing Opportunities

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As you are developing and working on your Influencing Goals, you need to be aware of what else is going on around you. It is very easy to become so focused on what you want to achieve that you fail to notice risks until they hit you in the face. Dealing with a risk after it has materialised is not as easy as being proactive and preparing contingency plans or taking action to reduce the impact it could have. Opportunities are somewhat different; they will slip by without you even noticing. The fact that a few simple actions could have substantially improved your prospects will never enter your head. Read More

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