How Do You Build an Influential Environment?
The Influential U curriculum focuses on the power of the whole environment: the people, systems, structures, and narratives of social ecologies.
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Getting Noticed for Your Value, Not Just Your Time
In the first of the Five Stages of Professional Professional Influence, we state, “You’re Unknown for your true value, which means you’re probably experiencing feelings of frustration, anxiety, and overwhelm. You are thwarted in many areas and goals. It seems unfair—why does it seem so easy for others?”
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What Got You Here Won’t Get You Beyond It
In two of the Five Stages of Professional Professional Influence, we state, “What got you here won’t get you beyond it” and “you can’t get beyond a familiar level of accomplishment.” We all recognize this frustrating experience, and our lives are often a series of plateaus we can’t get beyond.
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Proactive Disruption: A Trojan Horse
In Stage 4 of Professional Influence, we state, “An ambitious professional in this stage needs both incremental change and total proactive reinvention.”
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Don’t forget to demonstrate your general knowledge
When we transact, we demonstrate many things to others.
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Trading Value vs. Trading Time
Some people or personalities have a linear relationship to earning a living. They see time spent and dollars earned as a simple equation.
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Adult Vs Ambitious Adult
You are always transacting to satisfy your Conditions of Life. So is everyone else. The question is: do you transact powerfully?
Like it or not, we demonstrate our state of mind to others; we offer evidence that we are fit to transact (or not).
Our state of mind offers a clue to the narrative swimming in our heads. It might confirm that we have no pathway to our aims—or conversely, it might evidence that we are an Ambitious Adult fit for the offer we are making.
While Adults merely respond to offers, Ambitious Adults make them. What does it take to evidence the state of mind of an Ambitious Adult and prove our fitness?
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Long-Term Planning Is Crucial to Growth
All people go through the five Stages of Professional Influence.
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15 Unavoidable Conditions of Life
When students apply for our programs, we often see an imbalance in their lives—even in the most successful achievers.
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The Narratives of the Transaction Cycle
We think in story.
Humans use stories to organize their thinking and make sense of the world.
There are eight fundamental exchanges in all transactions, and each has a specific purpose represented by a narrative or story about that exchange.
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