Building Organizational Influence: Meta Skills

How to influence others

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1. Prabhakar  Gopalan META SKILLS INFLUENCE ORGANIZATIONAL Build HOW TO
2. Knowledge Work is inter-disciplinary requires both breadth & depth, in a wide range of subjects
3. To succeed at work you need both Maker Skills and Meta Skills
4. Influence is the hardest Meta Skill to acquire and practice
5. are caught in this vortex competing organizational priorities. You
6. How do you drive organizational alignment?
7. Here are some standard techniques available to you…
8. Bribes Flattery Beer Gifts Authority Email from Boss Screaming Executive Open Threats Software MBOs JIRA, Trello Slack
9. These will all inevitably eventually fall short of what you want.
10. And let’s not forget books like these…
11. I applied many of the Book techniques…
12. But when I went to that important meeting was always different and unexpected reality
13. So I threw all the frameworks, books, and processes out and relied on improvisation
14. And started looking inward
15. 3 things worked for me and could work for you too. (Ah yes, the irony of coming up with another list!)
16. We can’t really influence anyone but ourselves!
17. On influencing Self
18. We need to latch on to a higher Purpose
19. On Servant Leadership
20. better version of ourselves We need to chase a
21. On Leadership & Self-Deception
22. Thank You! Visit pgconsulting.com for more