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How to connect with anyone at all levels?

Man is a social animal bounded by relationships, both personal and formal. According to Barbara Colorose, "We control fifty percent of a relationship and influence hundred percent of it". Influence is the capacity to produce the required effect on the actions, behavior and opinions of others. The appropriate utilization of influence helps you produce excellent results, thereby making you the "Special Point of Contact", which in turn again makes your circle of influence larger and effective. And as the work burden increases, it necessitates the influence on all other levels of organization in order to deliver the task on time. Technically, this is called as the Law of Reciprocity and Exchange. According to the law, exchange and influence are an important part of interpersonal behavior; exchange being paid for what is done and influence is giving others what they need.

Influence needn't come from a higher level of authority. It comes from those who possess certain leadership qualities like intelligence, maturity, personality, etc. Such influential people can be called leaders in their respective fields. Leaders inspire others towards high performance leading to significant impact on the organization's performance. The attributes of inspiring leaders include being role models, goal setters, change champions, good communicators and most importantly making an emotional connection with the group. The competency of leaders lies not in fixing the weaknesses of the group but in rather building their key areas of strength.

A good leader has the ability to engage with the employees and build strong relationships. He renders full support to employees at all levels to utilize their full potential and achieve professional and personal success. A leader is who is always open to ideas from all levels of the organization, creates an exciting environment for the employees to work in. Sub ordinates tend be mutually supportive. This increases the productivity and ultimately the sub ordinates are rewarded for their extra effort taken. Therefore, we can say that motivating the employees to perform better is a psychological process linked to the stimulus which has to come from the leader.

Leadership is a means of motivating the subordinates. Among motivational factors like harmonizing, empathizing, appreciating, rewarding, being a role model and morally supporting the employees, its harmony in the work groups that arouse the team spirit. This is better known as "Espirit De' Corps". It inspires and influences the workers to work harder together. To inculcate the team spirit the subordinates should be infused with a sense of belongingness towards their job. A face to face mode of communication should be practiced for greater and better impact.

It is rightly said that only when people enjoy their job, they deliver their best. So, the work culture of an organization or the home, be it whatsoever, the enjoying spirit should be alive in them. There should be no place for any misunderstanding and efforts should be directed at creating enthusiasm. An enthusiasm filled heart influences the person to give his best shot.

Mapping out effective negotiation strategies part 3

11. Be persuasive.

12. Be thoroughly prepared and avoid common mistakes.

13. Use tactics that suit you and understand tactics used by others.

14. Know when to walk away as well as when and how to use third-party help.

15. Know how to evaluate your performance and target improvements.

After mastering these pointers

Action plan

Practice - Evaluate - Practice - Evaluate - Change? - Practice - Evaluate - Practice.

Mapping out effective negotiation strategies part 2

6. Communicate effectively, allowing for differing perceptions, biases, and prejudices.

7. Acknowledge contextual and cultural expectations.

8. Understand the dynamics of power.

9. Identify interest and goals.

10. Be assertive.

Mapping out effective negotiation strategies part 1

1. Practice Critical Thinking & Empathy

2. Study & Understand Key Principles from communication, psychological, sociological & conflict theories.

3. Know yourself

4. Understand the dynamics of conflict

5. Know major negotiation temperaments and styles and how to interact with each of them.

Life's Strategy Part 2

Step 5 – We would get an idea of our possible strengths and weakness. We have to again list it out, like for example, we are very good in dealing with people, in speaking, and our weakness may be poor in organizing. Let us use the data and fuel our strengths and consider outsourcing our weaknesses.
Step 6 – Developing the possible strategy. Having the data and the understanding, there could be only a few possible outcomes. If the external environment is doing well, in growth, adopt a plus strategy, example spend to upgrade you. If the external environment is stabilizing or maintaining, adopt an equal strategy, example to take chances to spend or focus on cutting back. If the external environment is not doing well, on a decline, adopt a minus strategy, example in a retrenchment stage consider downsizing your personal expenses. Just minus away the dessert, if you had originally planned to have an expensive meal.
Step 7 – Implement your strategy or take action. Confucius had a saying “ If you know something and don’t act upon it, is as though you know nothing. Take action reflecting the goals that you originally desired to achieve. If it does not do according to plan take action to control and alter your course of action.
Step 8 – Monitor and evaluate your progress. Is this what you truly want. If things do not go according to plan, what you should consider is to revisit you original goals and objectives and repeat step 1 to step 8. Before you know it, you would see a fantastic change in you and looking forward to a newer happier you. Say this mantra in the mirror 50 times, I Like Myself, I Like Myself, And I LIKE MYSELF.

Life's Strategy Part 1

lease bring out the CEO in you and take charge of life. We are all winners, as we beat hundreds and hundreds to come into the existence of a human body. Claim our birth right, our throne, as we step forth on this beautiful place called earth, whatever we wanted, we just had to cry, with our diapers or without our diapers, and we will be attended to. Let’s live life the way we should live it. Life is great, Life is beautiful. Now let me draw to the point, there are eight steps in strategically managing our life.
Step 1 – Identify or write down our goals, our dreams, our purpose in life, what we plan to achieve, how much, by when, doing what. Write it down. Don’t just think about it, ink about it. Like a pilot knows exactly his destination, we should also have clear, visual goals that we would want to achieve. Now, don’t get too carried away, write down smaller goals in life. Do baby steps, as every drop of water makes an ocean and a small leak can sink a great ship, let’s build this new and beautiful habit of writing it, reviewing it and changing it if necessary?
Step 2 – Analysing the external environment, we have to know what are we up against or what would be in our favour. Like for example, there might be more focus on the tourism or service sector, or falling interest rates would make it unattractive to keep money in the banks.
Step 3 – We would get an idea of the possible opportunities and threats out there for or against us. From the raw data of step 2, we could list down all the possible pros and cons. That would mean more possible job openings in the service sector, which we should equip ourselves, like for example the certified service professional course, and falling interest rates would make us think of whether to keep the money in the bank or money under our pillow or purchasing investments.
Step 4 – Analysing our resources or our internal environment. We have to list down our finances, what we own, such as assets, car, house, what we owe, such as credit cards, what we earn, our income and what we spend, our expenses, we should also list down the people that mean to us, our family, our friends, our academic qualification, our skill sets.