#451 How to have influence at work

Squiggly Careers

The Squiggly Career

Management, Careers, Business

5 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Welcome to week 2 of the Squiggly Careers Videobook Club. In our second episode of the series, Helen and Sarah discuss their experience of watching Influence, a Videobook from Robert B. Cialdini. Together they talk about a statement that stuck, something that surprised them, and what action they are going to take as a result of watching.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah and you're listening to the second week of the Squiggly Careers
0:08.1	Video Book Club. So this is something that we have created to kickstart your learning in 2025
0:14.4	and also create a bit of a community around something we really care about, which is development
0:19.6	and focusing on your career development.
0:22.5	Today, Sarah and I are going to talk about a video book, which was recorded by Bob Chaldeen,
0:28.3	and it's called Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion.
0:32.2	Ooh. And so why is influence important in our squiggly careers?
0:37.7	And I think there are a few things when you think about influence.
0:40.0	I was reflecting on when do we need to have influence in squiggly careers.
0:44.2	And I think there's sort of two whens.
0:46.2	There's like the when that's connected to your work, to your day job.
0:50.3	And then there's the when that's connected more to your career.
0:53.4	So I think in your career,
0:54.7	there are certain moments that matter where you are looking to have a lot of influence. So,
0:58.1	you know, if you're in an interview, you're trying to influence that person to give you a
1:03.1	role. If you are making a career change, you're trying to influence somebody that, you know,
1:08.4	you've got those transferable talents. You know, you're trying to persuade people. And I think in a more sort of day-to-day way, which I think is how influence
1:15.9	typically kind of probably shows up more commonly. We are all trying to influence each other,
1:20.2	I think, all of the time, which can feel a bit uncomfortable. Like I think as I was going
1:24.4	through this video book, quite a few of the concepts and ideas did make me a bit uncomfortable.
1:29.9	But I think here this is really about just being smart.
1:33.4	So if we want to have impact, often we need to sort of share our work with other people.
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