154: Eight Ways to Use Power for Good
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
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🗓️ 18 August 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dave Stachowiak: Eight Types of Power
A brief word from Power vs. Force* by David Hawkins
In 1959, French & Raven identified several types of power in their research:
1. Reward power
- Giving something of value
2. Expert power
- Knowledge, competence, and experience
3. Referent power
- Personality and charisma to influence others
4. Legitimate
- We have the legitimate right to command given our position in the organization
In 1975, Raven & Kruglanski added to the list…
5. Connection power
- Access to powerful people and organizations
6. Information power
- Access to information that other parties don’t have
In 1989, Liberatore et al. added…
7. Group decision-making power
- The decisions an entire organization gets behind
Finally, in 1991, Yukl & Falbe identified…
8. Persuasive power
- The ability to influence through logic and dialogue
A brief word about force
- Coercive “power” is also cited in the research
- This is the force against will – to threaten punishment and deliver penalty
- Effective leaders have two directives when considering force:
- 1. Use it only as a last resort
- 2. To be certain, at least beyond a reasonable doubt, that it’s justified
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| 0:00.0 | How are you using power to influence your organization? |
| 0:04.4 | Today a look at the eight types of power leaders use, |
| 0:08.6 | how these show up in the workplace, |
| 0:10.9 | and why power is essential to get things done. This is |
| 0:15.6 | coaching for leaders episode 154. Produced by Innovate Learning |
| 0:21.1 | Maximizing Human Potential. innovate learning, maximizing human potential. |
| 0:24.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:30.0 | This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your your host Dave Stahoviac. This is a weekly |
| 0:36.5 | coaching show to help all of us be better leaders through improved communication |
| 0:41.9 | human relations and and personal leadership in our |
| 0:46.4 | organizations and involved in all of those things is our use either for good or bad of power, power in order to be able to influence |
| 0:59.6 | our organizations and the world for the good. |
| 1:04.7 | And so today an examination of eight types of powers |
| 1:09.4 | that leaders utilize in their organizations in order to get results and we'll look at each of these |
| 1:16.7 | eight in turn and look at how we can use them in our organizations too. |
| 1:24.0 | And this is based upon research over the last 50, 60 years of power in organizations. |
| 1:32.0 | And so I'll cite some of the researchers so but I am |
| 1:36.6 | going to keep this very practical for us because what's important is that we're |
| 1:42.0 | able to take this information and be able to |
| 1:44.0 | utilize it in the workplace. First a brief quote from a book that I found on my |
| 1:51.3 | shelf this week that I have read a portion of, not the entire book, |
| 1:55.4 | but it's been many years since I grabbed it, I dusted it off, and the name of the book is |
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