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To Inspire Each Other, Influence Each Other

by Michael D. Hume, M.S.

Do you want to be influenced?? If you want to be a more inspirational leader, as do many of my clients, your answer should be "yes."? In order to inspire others, you have to first be inspired yourself; one of the great sources of personal inspiration is to cultivate strong relationships built on mutual trust, empathy, and two-way influence.? Green Bay Packers Baseball Hats If you think about it, the leaders who've most inspired you have been the ones with whom you've enjoyed such relationships.? They've influenced you.? And chances are, you've influenced each other.

Influence means, literally, to "flow within."? People sometimes confuse it with "manipulation," which carries a justifiably-negative connotation and literally means to "move with the hand."? When you manipulate someone, emotionally or otherwise, you're pretty much trying to control them with unseen "hands," like a puppet.? That's not inspiring.? What has the power to inspire is Green Bay Packers Baseball Hats the art of creating a mutual flow of ideas and beliefs Green Bay Packers Baseball Hats within each party to a relationship.? Influence.

If you own a business, you definitely want to be influential, to your customers and clients if to no one else.? And if you're smart, you'll avoid being seen as a "manipulator" by staying open to being influenced, as well... you want your customers to influence your thinking about your products and service offerings; you'll fail otherwise.? If your leadership mission is in the service of an organization, you still want to seek mutual influence wherever you can find it.? Influence makes you a stronger, more inspirational leader; being influenced makes you more influential!