SECTION 2

Inspire and Influence Your Team

This segment is about inspiring hope and confidence in your people. The first section has laid the foundation for this segment. For example, you cannot inspire people if your attitude is wrong or you are perceived as someone without integrity. Having laid the foundation, leaders must inspire and influence people to buy into their visions and develop the confidence in their team to execute the project.

Great leaders inspire hope and confidence. They show us what is possible and push us to accomplish it. Call them optimists, possibility thinkers, visionaries, or idealists—they are individuals who are willing to challenge the status quo to find new and better ways of doing old things.

I believe one of the ...

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