From the course: Executive Influence
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How to choose how to influence
- There's a Buddhist saying as wise as a statement can be. "Participate with joy in the sorrows of the world." It's a leadership challenge for all of us as alive today as ever. We can't solve all the world's problems, but we can choose how to show up for them. The executive influence choice, energizing people to create possibilities, starts with the imperfect world as it is. So how we influence needs to work in good times, bad times, anytime. Here are three ways to do just that. First, always give people a reason to care, a reason to believe and to try and try again. Care. This should be better. Believe. This can be better. And try. We make it better and keep making it better. I coached a phenomenal leader who runs a hospital in southern California. Back at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire staff, already overwhelmed for weeks, he had an inspired idea. Because even when things were at their worst,…
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