Using the five sources of your power at work
Every employee has five sources of power to draw from. Assess your potential power sources and use them to your advantage.
1.Personal power is all about your charisma, your passion to achieve the strength of your convictions, your ability to communicate and inspire, and your leadership skills.
2.Rela-tionship power derives from the network of contacts and friends that you make, develop, and maintain at work; from coworkers who keep you up to date with the goings-on in their part of the organization, to executives who seek you out for special projects--and everyone in between.
3.Position power is directly related to where you reside on your company's organizational chart. Owners, presidents, and CEOs have plenty of position power, while receptionists, clerks, and laborers typically have little or none.
4. Knowledge power is based on the special expertise and knowledge that you have of your job, your departments, or your organization.
5.Task power is inherent in the jobs you are assigned at work. Some work is by nature more important to the health of the organization than others. For example, salespeople, whose job is to bring in money by selling its products or services, usually have high task power.
You can leverage any source of power you have to build your base of power in another source.
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在工作中利用好你的五种资源
每个雇员都拥有五种可以利用的权力资源. 估量你的潜在的权力资源然后利用他们成为你的优势.
1．个人权力就是你的魅力，你实现你信念的激情，你与别人沟通和激励别人的，和你的领导能力。
2．人际关系权力来自于你在工作中所建立、发展和保持的关系网和结交的朋友圈；来自于公司内其他部门的同事—让你及时了解他们部门的情况；来自于公司主管-可以将特殊项目交由你负责
3．职位权力与你在公司的地位有直接关系，公司所有人，主席还有首席执行官都拥有非常大的职位权力，但是接待员、办事员和劳务人员一般有很少或者没有职位权力。
4．知识权力是你对你的具体工作、你所在部门、你的机构的某种特殊专长或知识
5．任务权力存在与你所被分配的工作。.有些工作在本质上比其他工作更对公司组织的健康发展有重要意义。例如：销售人员，他们的工作就是通过销售产品和服务为公司带来效益，他们通常拥有较高的任务权力
你可以利用你拥有的任何一种权力资源来建立另一权力资源的基础。