Plenty of leadership opportunities come up every day of our lives, many at our jobs. For instance, imagine that you’re in charge of convincing your boss you deserve that promotion, or to manage a project or team, how about finding the right job or dealing professionally with difficult situations with colleagues. Most of all, you have to be 100% a leader and in charge of finding out who you are and rocking your career and life.  Rocking your career and life requires gaining emotional equity with others. This is how I see it:

• Energy = Equity
• Equity = Access
• Access = Influence

Putting energy into your relationships with people helps to build emotional equity (a personal bond), which results in people caring about one another and wanting to contribute to one another’s welfare. This degree of equity then increases access to a person’s time, information and contacts. Increased access enables one to boost their level of influence on situations and outcomes. Influence enables you to get things done. Every person that gets things done successfully understands the connection between energy, equity, access and influence.

I can’t tell you how often people tell me that they avoid the colleagues that they’ve labeled as difficult. Then they complain that they can’t get these people to help them get things done. Of course not! They have no emotional equity with them.  Instead of avoiding difficult people or scenarios, try taking a bold leadership role instead. Presenting clear objectives, expectations and roles is a sure way to create the outcomes that you will need down the road.
 
Christine Comaford, Business Accelerator
CEO of Mighty Ventures, Inc.
NY Times Best Selling Author

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