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If you want to lead your team to unprecedented levels of success, it’s important to develop your skills as a leader as well. It can’t all be about pushing your employees to become better versions of themselves — you have to become better at leading them, too.

If you aim to lead your employees to greatness, you’ll need to learn the art of influence. There are two primary methods of influence that I’ve found to be most effective: the Push and Pull styles of influence. They’re totally opposite, but both very valuable when used correctly.

You have the technical skills needed to lead your organisation to the next level. You want to take that next step. Something’s holding you back, though.

Are you feeling stuck in your career? Like you can’t go any further in your current company? You could simply be failing to consistently present yourself as an influential presence in your office.

If you’re hoping to move up the ladder in the office, you’re likely looking for ways to make your voice heard, whether it be in an important meeting or just around the water cooler.

Networking elicits interesting reactions from some businesspeople (cowering, screaming in terror, avoiding it at all costs possible). Like it or not, however, networking is vital to your career. Once you start networking within your own company, at social functions and during organisation-wide conferences, you might find that you’re doing quite well, branching out and meeting others. The secret to successful, effective networking, though, is this: you have to constantly be networking with NEW people.

What is the biggest predictor of success? According to some studies, the best predictor of career success is networking. More specifically, it’s keeping an open network.

Some of the top complaints about coaching or excuses not to coach that I hear include… – It takes too long! – It’s just easier to do it myself! – Things’ll happen faster and easier if I just tell our team what to do.

Have you been considering taking on a role as a mentor? Mentoring can be a very rewarding experience, but not just for your mentee. Here’s why mentoring may be a great next step for your career.

If you’re thinking your team needs a little coaching and you’re the right individual to do it, pause a moment. Are you truly qualified to be a good coach? What actually makes a good coach? Is it simply the ability to show others how to do what you’re good at, or tell them how you were able to achieve success?