Influence is ubiquitous and you are using it, well or poorly, in your life whether you are aware of it or not. You have likely been to a powerful workshop or training program where you felt you learned a lot. A few weeks after, though, you cannot remember much and start thinking the workshop wasn’t that impactful. What drives the gap between your immediate feeling at the workshop’s end and a few weeks later? It is creating the attitudes and habits you need to adopt and internalize what you learned and to consistently practice and apply those learnings.
Developing proficiency in influencing, like becoming good in any skill, has four stages:
- Unconsciously unskilled.
- Consciously unskilled.
- Consciously skilled.
- Unconsciously skilled.
To go from ‘unconsciously unskilled’ to ‘consciously unskilled’ is a logical progression once you are exposed to a new idea. To go from ‘consciously unskilled’ to ‘consciously skilled’ is all about commitment and practice. Improvement comes with consciously devoting time and energy to adopting the skill. Practice will lead to habitualisation. You explore what habit you will adopt to use the principles day in and day out. You determine who will practice with you. And you envision what or who will enable you to call on these principles during times when you need them most… Read Full Article here: IM Feb_TYH & HK
From Indian Management February 2024 Edition
