April 29, 2013 Focus Point

April 29, 2013
Focus Point

 

How to increase Influence with people.

 

Last week we discussed what leadership is all about. This week we will discuss how to grow in our influence with people. First of all I want to share that this is totally a learnable skill. The John Maxwell Group teaches leadership and growing in influence all around the world to people in all walks of life, and in all kinds of different businesses, and professional settings. It is so wonderful that people are learning, changing, and growing in their leadership and their influence with people, and reaching higher levels of success in life. So this is good news. It means that you and I can learn to grow in our leadership ability and we do this by increasing our influence with people, and we increase our influence with people by intentionally adding value to them. You and I can wake up every morning and determine who and in what ways we will add value.

 

There are endless ways to add value to another, but the foundation of it all is to Identify and Relate to people. By asking questions and listening, we can quickly begin to identify and relate with anyone. People will always remember others who have cared enough about them to identify, relate, and help them in some way. You will get an even greater impact by 10 to 1 if you are the first to help. You will go from someone who has helped, to the one who was the first to help, and you will always hold a special place in this person's heart.

 

How would the environment change in your home, church, and at work if you asked questions and listened and became the first to help?

 

Growing in influence with those around us takes time and effort. Our physical bodies grow automatically. We even experience life automatically, but our minds, skills, and attitudes only grow if we are intentional about it, and anyone can choose to be intentional.

 

To ponder this week: Increasing our influence is simple and basic, both to understand and to do, but it does not happen automatically.

 

Remember. Whatever it takes you can learn!