This week we are considering your Power as a Social Leader: yesterday we asked ‘what lies beyond your control’, to understand that all power has limits.
But some things can extend those limits: our space of influence may reach beyond that which we directly control.
Use your 60 seconds today to ask yourself ‘what can i influence?’
Consider how ‘influence’ relates to ‘power’.
Does your influence build upon your formal power, or your Social Authority? Does it make your power deeper, or broader?
And what kind of power is ‘influence’ anyway? Clearly it does not compel people to do anything, it does not move mountains. And yet it is very, very, real.
So what is it?