Book Pick of the Week: Increasing Your Influence at Work for Dummies

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Influence is a timeless topic for business leaders and others in positions of power, but the world has evolved to the point where everyone needs these skills. No matter your job, role, rank, or function, if you want to get things done you need to know how to influence up, down, across, and outside the organization.

Increasing Your Influence at Work All-in-One For Dummies shows you how to contribute more fully to important decisions, resolve conflicts more easily, lead and manage more effectively, and much more. Plus, you'll discover how to develop the most important attributes necessary for influence—trustworthiness, reliability, and assertiveness—and find out how to move beyond.

Includes easy-to-apply information for influencing managers, peers, and subordinates

Shows you how to build trust with your co-workers and cultivate reliability through consistency and being personal

Illustrates how influencing others in the office helps you enjoy a greater measure of control over your work life

Helps you advance your career more rapidly than others

And more!