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Using Social Capital to Build Political Muscle

July 15, 2016 by Colin Gautrey

Traditional approaches to developing influencing skills focus on the individual. However, there is an opportunity to adopt a different mindset — instead of working out how you can be more influential, think of how you can make your team more influential. As leader, the more influential the team becomes, the more influential you can become too! Referring to countries, The World Bank has noted that, “Increasing evidence shows that social cohesion is critical for societies to prosper economically and for development to be sustainable”. If social cohesion can be good for countries, it can also be good for teams and organisations. Read More

Filed Under: Executives, The Blog, Top 50 Tagged With: be powerful, learn to influence, Political capital, social capital

Expanding Social Capital and Creating Political Capital

July 9, 2013 by Colin Gautrey

Having political capital allows you to get things done. Yet it is only possible to have political capital if you have first invested in building a solid foundation of social capital. Interestingly, although many people have this base of social capital, not many develop it into the sort of influence that only political capital can achieve. Given my recent dire Early Warning: A Political Storm is Brewing, it is critical that you take action on this as soon as possible. Below I will explore how these ideas work together and then move swiftly onto sharing some thoughts on how you can bolster your social capital and develop it into the much more valuable political capital.

Social Capital

At its simplest level, social capital is the quantity and quality of your relationships. The potential usefulness of your social capital depends very much on who these relationships are with. You will be right to think that Read More

Filed Under: Favourites, The Blog, Top 50 Tagged With: developing power, Political capital, social capital

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