What Is Exquisite Influence In Business Today?

My focus this month has been writing custom content for a high potential talent development programme targeting emerging leaders. Their challenges are many: change, uncertainty, ambiguity, complexity, and the commercial expectation of the business is to drive agility as a leader. Now, improving processes are great, honing product knowledge helps, and segmenting marketing efforts to increase the effort/reward ratio all make sense.

And yet.

The game-changer will be honing leadership capabilities focused on influence. I call it ‘exquisite influence’, and by that, I mean the ability of leaders to “to be persuasive and compelling with a wide variety of audiences. An ability to flex leadership style, build collaborative relationships, engage and empower teams, lead change and drive results through exceptional communication skills, purposeful curiosity, and an optimistic mindset”. Sounds relatively straightforward, right?   Wrong.

For leaders everywhere, it’s never been harder to demonstrate exquisite influence, and to do so consistently, under pressure, in the absence of clarity, with little time to prepare, at distance, across cultures, time zones and dotted reporting lines. Our content hones practical, impactful skills and strategies to get it right. This is about building muscle strength and high impact habits which make a difference.

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