Resource Origin: Keller Institute

“If you are an executive or provide executive coaching, you know the executive role requires moving to a new level of leadership. The executive must stop merely doing the needed tasks at hand and shift to overseeing and leading those who must actually do these tasks. Whereas once the aptitude to do the task was most important, now the successful executive must be able to influence others to accomplish what is needed. In fact, doing the actual tasks can be one of the worst expenditures of time and energy an executive can spend. In this way, influence is KEY to growing as an executive…”

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Originally published at: https://www.kellerinstitute.com/blog/how-influence-affects-executive-leadership-and-organizational-competency-understanding-role