When we talk about influence, we are talking about a super powerful tool that is beneficial for all aspects of our lives, both professionally and personally.
Influence is not just about exercising power or control over something or someone, influence is the ability to inspire, guide and above all help other people so that they can see from a new perspective, those who work well with influence can generate changes in people and that these are sustainable over time, in turn this allows to generate relationships of trust.
After understanding this you surely want to be the most influential person on the planet, how do we start working to be an influential person? That's where a new adventure begins.
First of all, we must be authentic to exert influence. Not considering this is a big mistake, since there are people who think that it is only influential when they imitate those people who are successful without considering their values or principles. Authenticity is what allows us to connect with other people when we are genuine and sincere, we are showing our most genuine intentions. There we begin to build trust and this is the basis of influence.
So: to start the path of being influential in others, we first have to learn to know ourselves, what our motivations are and that all actions are in harmony and aligned with our values, people do not follow those who do not show coherence between what they say and do. Another very important point is that the influential person is the one who knows how to listen more than he speaks, this is because in this way we learn to know the needs and desires as well as the points of view of other people, here active listening is exercised.
The priority should be on good communication, being assertive and communicating effectively both with words and with body language and attitudes, from here we must constantly provide value, everything we offer must be valuable to other people, we must add value to the lives of those around us, all this allows us to gain respect and exert influence when we are giving without expecting anything in return, this is very powerful.
All this is not going to be lived in constant growth, we find the solution to all things by learning and growing step by step, we develop our mentality oriented to solutions and the positive and we transmit this same thing to other people, when others see that we face problems with a positive attitude and resilience, they are invaded by a great dose of motivation to follow our example. We must cultivate patience and persistence since influence is not something that you are born with one day and that's it, influence is built day after day. Do you dare to start being influential?