Sources of power to influence
Two buckets of power sources of Influencing:
- Organizational
- Personal
# Organizational
- Role
- Your position within an organization or team
- Information
- Your level of access and control over information
- Network
- The people you’re connected with, professionally and personally
- Reputation
- How others perceive you
# Personal
- Knowledge
- The power you draw from your expertise in certain subjects, your unique abilities and skill sets, and your ability to learn new things
- Expressiveness
- Your ability to communicate with others
- History
- The level of personal history that exists between you and another person
- Character
- Other people’s view of your personal qualities