What Is The Meaning Of Influence? - YouTube

What is the meaning of influence in real terms? In this video,

I'm going to define influence and give you three quick tips

that you can put into practice to increase your influence. Here

we go. Hi, my name is Drew and I've had the opportunity to

learn from and connect with highly influential people like

Dr. Chow Dini, John Maxwell and Palmer nilly just to name a few.

And I want to take what I've learned from them and share it

with you. I really believe that if you have something to say,

something to sell or something big to do, you've got to

increase your influence. And that's what this channel is for.

Tim Elmore, who runs a fantastic organization, called growing

leaders has had the opportunity to train highly influential

organizations like the Kansas City Royals, and the Alabama

Crimson Tide athletic department. And I got to catch

up with him at Pepperdine University where he was training

their athletic department, I also got to have coffee with him

afterwards. But Tim is is noted as saying that every one of us

even the most introverted of us will influence over 10,000

people in our lifetime. Just think about that. If you think

about your influence, if you are a little bit extroverted, you

might run into two or three people meet two or three people

a day and have the opportunity to influence them over a

lifetime. That's anywhere from 45 to 65,000 people that you

will influence over your lifetime. So this idea this

concept of influence is a big deal. John Maxwell says that

leadership is influence nothing more, nothing less. I love that

quote. But it does leave a question, what is influence? And

I like to say success is what everybody wants. But influence

is what everyone needs. Why is that? I like to say increase

your influence, realize your dream. What does it mean to have

influence over someone or something, it means that you

have power over the outcome of a certain situation, or how a

person responds to a certain situation, think of it this way,

we have something called a DUI driving under the influence if

you are under the influence of alcohol, that means that your

responses, your decisions in a certain situation are going to

be altered because of that alcohol. Well, the same thing is

true with human influence with outside influences. It changes

how we respond and how we react to certain situations. So let me

let me give a quick story, a funny story. You can see on the

screen now a picture of my sister myself, we were somewhere

around the ages of three and five. She's my older sister,

highly influential in my life. We're muddy right here and

taking a bath. But the backstory with this is that we were

playing in the backyard, and we got a hold of the hose. And we

were making mud and having a good time. And very quickly, my

mom found out what we were doing. And she came outside

said, hey, no more playing with the hose. Let's stop that. Okay,

we said okay, and kids are very literal. So we were told we

can't play with the hose anymore. But we weren't told

that we couldn't make any more mud. And so my sister, looking

at the situation, recognizing she has influence over me, she

can tell me to do something, and I'll do it recognizing the

resources at our disposal. She says, Hey, little brother, I

know that you can pretty much pee at any time. So what I want

you to do is pee in the dirt here and we can continue to play

you want to continue to play I said yes, I want to continue to

play. And so she influenced me to pee in the dirt. And we

continue to have a great time. Now the Latin word for influence

is in flow. Now I was in flow that day in more than one way,

okay. But the idea of being in flow is that just like a bunch

of streams and a river, the streams come in and the more

dominant river, they flow into that and they don't find it.

They don't. They there's no resistance there. They come in

flow with that larger body of water. The same thing is true

with you and me. We want to get people in flow with us. We don't

want them to fight we don't want them to resist. We don't want

them to push back against it. We want to be in flow. And just

like my sister that day, she had influence over me I was in flow

with her why? Because she was able to convince me that this

was something that I would benefit from and recognize that

I had the resources to accomplish what we both wanted

and she influenced me she got me in flow with her desired

outcome. So let me give you three tips on how you can

increase your influence. Alright, number one, solve

problems. If

you are a problem solver. You will increase your influence

with your boss with a client with whoever is around you don't

be a problem pointer. Be a problem solver solve problems

and you will increase your influence number two seek to

understand so often when we're communicating with someone we're

talking to someone we're having a conversation with a co worker

with a peer with a boss with a client. We are seeking to

respond we want we Want to hear what they're saying? So we can

respond and we can give the right response or give the

objection or whatever it is, or it's look smart or sound

smarter, whatever the case may be, but instead of seeking to

respond, seek to understand, what are they saying? What are

they communicating? What are they communicating non verbally?

Where are they communicating beyond just the words that are

coming out of their mouth. And let me understand this, process

this and then give a thoughtful response and seek to understand

and number three, the third way that you can quickly and easily

increase your influence is by simply having a positive

attitude. People enjoy being around people that are positive,

they want to be random, it's life. Giving you are you are

putting out positive energy to people that you interact with,

that you're in the workplace with, that you see on a regular

basis. A positive attitude will increase your influence in the

workplace, with your clients, with your family member with

your friends, you're just more fun to be around. Thank you so

much. Those are three easy ways that you can increase your

influence. I've got an entire resource 53 qualities of an

influential person that you can download and you can assess

yourself and really determine where are you on the scale of

influence on a scale of one to 10 How do you rank download that

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know that this free resources out here that they can use to

increase their influence because remember, increase your

influence and realize your dream

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