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Influencing
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Influencing

Skills and Techniques for Business Success

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 подробнее...


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8

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Recommendation

Everyone wants to be influential, but how do you gain power you can wield? How do you get a group’s attention when you need it? More importantly, what primary skills do you need to be taken seriously when you want to sway the actions of another person, a team or an organization? Fiona Elsa Dent and Mike Brent answer these questions and more in this straightforward book. They balance practical information with pertinent academic research as they show you how to gain influence and explain why their strategy works. Their book provides a solid framework for learning and using persuasive skills in business and social settings. It includes tests and exercises to help you get the most from each chapter. getAbstract recommends this strategic book to readers who want to influence others.

Take-Aways

  • Successful managers must excel at two skills: communicating and influencing.
  • You can learn to be influential at both the interpersonal and the organizational level, although your organization’s culture will govern its influencing process.
  • A good influencer has confidence, knowledge, understanding, and strong verbal and nonverbal communication skills. Being powerful helps, too.

About the Authors

Fiona Elsa Dent, director of Executive Education at Ashridge Business School in the U.K., writes about self-managed development, influencing skills and the use of psychometric instruments in management development. Mike Brent, an Ashridge faculty member with experience at many international companies, writes about coaching and leadership.


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    B. F. 4 years ago
    I can write this book in just a couple sentences. Know what you're talking about. Don't be a douche. There, I just wrote the entire book.
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    D. D. 1 decade ago
    Good job
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    D. B. 1 decade ago
    ...also look at Influencing with Integrity by Genie Laborde.