How Competent CEOs Enhance Their Influencing Power?: Enhance Your Influencing Power
External personality or personality ethic:
· Dressing appropriately and appropriate for the occasion (power dressing)
· Your overall grooming and presentability
· Personal cleanliness and hygiene
· Your mannerisms (pleasing and impressing manners and the mannerisms you should avoid)
· Impressive communication: poise, style, right words, right sentences, command over the language, right effect
Power position:
· The power look (many times to intimidate others)
· Hierarchical position
· Fame or visibility as an expert- indispensability
· Closeness to a person holding powerful hierarchical position
· Position with a nuisance value, harming feature
· Power to use carrot (bribing at times) and stick
Internal personality or character ethic:
· Genuineness in behavior with people
· Courage, fearlessness
· Justice: no partiality, no favoritism
· Modesty and humility
· Value driven
· High IQ, EQ and SQ
· Knowledgeable, skilled
· Walking the talk: no gaps between you private and public behavior (inside-out
approach: start first with self)
· Build emotional bank accounts in others
· Empathic listening
· Win-win approach in all the dealings
· Investing in making others capable to utilize the best in them
· Real problem solver: diagnose before prescribing
· No games, no ulterior motive, no selfishness