#68 How to be Influential

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Cutting through the noise of work, so people hear you and your perspectives, has never been more challenging. It's the people who have influencing skills that are able to counteract this environment. These people gain more control over their career because people listen to their thoughts and take action off the back of them. In this week's podcast, Sarah and Helen dissect what it takes to be good at influencing and identify 5 key tips which make the biggest impact. Head over to amazingif.com for the summary and to access resource links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Sarah and I'm joined by my co-host
0:08.1	Helen. Hi everyone. And this podcast is all about developing the skills that we think we all need
0:13.9	to succeed whatever success looks like for you in our increasingly squiggly careers.
0:19.5	And before we start this week actually, there's something that lots of you might have seen in the news over the past couple of days. A lot of you might have increasingly squiggly careers. And before we start this week, actually,
0:21.1	there's something that lots of you might have seen in the news over the past couple of days.
0:24.9	Lots of people have been sharing it with me that I thought was worth just a pause to reflect on.
0:29.3	So I don't know if you've seen this, Helen. Have you seen the girl who went for an interview
0:33.2	with a tech company up in Manchester and had such an awful experience that she's written about it
0:38.5	and turned down the job. I did see it and do you know what I think's both brilliant and also
0:42.3	quite scary is the transparency now of actually if you are horrendous in an interview it can get
0:48.4	on like the front page of the BBC. I quite like it. Yeah well to be honest I find it reassuring
0:53.7	it's when I think social media kind of has its best and its worst side, like everything.
0:58.8	But I was kind of thinking that social media at its best, because that just wouldn't have
1:02.1	existed maybe even five years ago, where actually somebody there who probably has tried
1:07.2	to exert quite a lot of power, behave in a way that I think majority of people
1:11.2	would say is not appropriate and not fair. Suddenly, I suspect they're going to have a really hard
1:16.6	time attracting amazing talent now, and I sort of think serves you right. Yeah, can you imagine
1:20.9	that person's performance development review with their manager? They've probably really damaged.
1:25.6	Well, he's CMD as well, isn't he? He's a chief executive.
1:27.8	He's got to be some shareholders that are not happy with that. Yeah, there must be someone. Yeah,
1:32.2	yeah. And I was thinking, I know lots of people at the moment who are going for job interviews.
1:36.4	So if that's you and you're listening and maybe you're a new listener, we did a podcast, which was
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