Joan Wood: The Influence Matrix - Blog Business Success Radio

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Speaker, consultant, founder of Leadership Edge, and author of the strategy based and very hands on book The Influence Matrix: Strategies for Engaging Others to Get Results, Joan Wood, describes the concept of developing personal stories to establish a matrix of reality for interacting with and influencing others. Joan Wood provides a complete guide to the strategies for become a master influencer, starting with developing greater self awareness. Joan presents practices for improving clarity in communication with others to prevent misunderstandings and the use of vague dialogue. Joan shows you how to engage others with stories and actions the build and establish trust. Joan demonstrates why building influence in today's rapidly changing and unpredictable business climate is essential for success. In a time when the old command and control management structure is breaking down, it is more critical than ever to become an effective leader within your own matrix of influence.

Joan Wood is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Thursday, January 17, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Speaker, consultant, founder of Leadership Edge, and author of the strategy based and very hands on book The Influence Matrix: Strategies for Engaging Others to Get Results, Joan Wood, describes the concept of developing personal stories to establish a matrix of reality for interacting with and influencing others. You will learn:

* What an influence matrix means and why it is important

* How to use personal stories to define your personal influence matrix

* How to engage more effectively with others to enhance influence

* How to become a master influencer and a more effective leader

Joan Wood (photo left) has over twenty years of experience in the areas of organization development, leadership training, and management consulting. Her expertise is in executive coaching and leadership development. She specializes in assisting clients with identifying and implementing change strategies to achieve critical business objectives. Her approach is to equip individuals with the skills, knowledge, and attitude required for attaining organizational goals. Joan's clients value the way she partners with them by providing the clarity and power that comes from strategic thinking and honest dialogue.

Utilizing customized training programs and team building methods, she moves groups toward enhanced performance and bottom-line results. Her technique empowers clients to generate new initiatives for continuous revitalization of the organization's competitive edge. Joan's strong facilitative style and her innovative ability to deliver needed messages bring dramatic insights for her clients.

Her resume includes management and consulting positions with a number of companies including Frito-Lay, The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas, Siemens (formerly SMS), Human Dynamics, and Pritchett.

My book review of The Influence Matrix: Strategies for Engaging Others to Get Results by Joan Wood.

Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.



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To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with speaker, consultant, founder of Leadership Edge, and author of the strategy based and very hands on book The Influence Matrix: Strategies for Engaging Others to Get Results, Joan Wood, as she describes the concept of developing personal stories to establish a matrix of reality for interacting with and influencing others. Joan Wood provides a complete guide to the strategies for become a master influencer, starting with developing greater self awareness. Joan presents practices for improving clarity in communication with others to prevent misunderstandings and the use of vague dialogue. Joan shows you how to engage others with stories and actions the build and establish trust. Joan demonstrates why building influence in today's rapidly changing and unpredictable business climate is essential for success. In a time when the old command and control management structure is breaking down, it is more critical than ever to become an effective leader within your own matrix of influence on Blog Business Success Radio.

The Influence Matrix by Joan Wood - Book review

The Influence Matrix

Strategies for Engaging Others to Get Results

By: Joan Wood

Published: November 15, 2012
Format: Paperback, 138 pages
ISBN-10: 1604948418
ISBN-13: 978-1604948417
Publisher: Wheatmark











"As organizations have become flatter through mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, and downsizing, people are being asked to do more with less - and with less power. Everyone is expected to lead within his or her sphere of influence, regardless of job title", writes speaker, consultant, and founder of Leadership Edge, Joan Wood, in her strategy based and very hands on book The Influence Matrix: Strategies for Engaging Others to Get Results. The author describes how leaders at all levels must establish their own matrix of reality through their personal stories and beliefs, in order to engage or disengage with others and their matrix, to influence positive outcomes.

Joan Wood understands that the old command and control management model is no longer effective in today's rapidly changing and globalized business environment. With this complete transformation of the external world, the author presents the necessity of changing one's internal world as well. To cope with these rapid changes, people must look within themselves and discover their inner creativity and power, in order to influence others, Joan Wood offers the concept of shifting one's internal world to work more effectively with the changing and uncertain external world. The author shares the strategy of developing stories that define one's personal beliefs and what is truth and what is predictable to establish a personal matrix of reality to form a base for self awareness.

Joan Wood (photo left) recognizes that understanding one's own matrix of reality, when compared with that of another person, is the spot where complexity and ambiguity can arise. It's at this point where communication efforts can break down and influence is decreased as a result. The ability to understand these frictions and complexities, and move them to a productive level, is what Joan Wood refers to as influence. An individual, who has achieved personal self awareness, establishes engagement with others, and who conducts themselves professionally in every way, is well on the way to becoming a master influencer.

Joan Wood shares her proven strategies for achieving the skills that are essential to becoming and acting as a master influencer. The author provides the following ten strategies for achieving master influencer status:

* Know thyself and be accountable for how you influence others
* Say what you mean
* Be visionary and observe your thoughts
* Take strategic action
* Demonstrate authentic power
* Move through resistance
* Relinquish control
* Create alignment
* Connect spiritually
* Keep it simple

For me, the power of the book is how Joan Wood combines a complete strategic plan for developing a personal influence matrix, with the practical techniques and practices to put it into action. The author provides a very practical guide, that doubles as a workbook, to support the reader as they develop their own self awareness and influence matrix. Joan Wood offers useful work sheets in every chapter to help with the self assessment and learning process. One of the key elements of the book is the section of questions that accompanies the strategy, to help the reader establish their own personal stories and influence matrix.

The chapters include practice strategies that enhance the ability to influence through practical applications. They also increase clarity of vision to provide for clear and meaningful dialogues with others, regardless of their personal influence matrix. The exercises ensure that the influencer achieves a positive engagement with others that develops and strengthens the level of trust.

I highly recommend the very useful and idea packed book The Influence Matrix: Strategies for Engaging Others to Get Results by Joan Wood, to anyone seeking a fresh and readily applicable approach to engagement and influence. In the ever evolving business climate of today, these concepts provide clarity and predictability that are essential to becoming a master influencer.

BlogBloke: Blogging Advice That Works - Blog Business Success Radio

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Long time blogger BlogBloke and I discuss the basics of creating and maintaining a successful blog. We offer some ideas that develop a blog that provides great content, ranks well on the search engines, receives good traffic, and lasts for the long term. We share ideas for writing blog posts, some suggestions for frequency of posts, and even for the length of posts. We present our thoughts on some pitfalls that can derail an otherwise great blog, including some of the challenges faced by business and company bloggers. We will also talk about company blogging policies, and utilizing social media to extend the reach of your blogs. Learn how to be a better and more effective blogger with some proven strategies and techniques to utilize for your own blog.

BlogBloke is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Tuesday, January 15, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Long time blogger BlogBloke and I discuss the basics of creating and maintaining a successful blog.

* How to establish an effective blog that attracts visitor traffic

* How to create and maintain conversations on your blog

* How to provide great content that visitors want to read

* How to rank well in the search engines with your blog



BlogBloke (avatar left) has worked in journalism and as a programmer in the computer industry before most had heard of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. A crusader at heart, he switched to law and soon made a name for himself as a successful litigation expert and mediator, helping folks who under normal circumstances can't afford justice.

A geek in every sense of the term, he carried his passion for helping others and computers into blogging that he helped pioneer. In those days there was no such thing as Wordpress or RSS newsfeeds for blogs. Having created the "Blog Tips" niche, his blog is an outstanding resource for helpful blogging tips and how-to tutorials. He has a reputation for being a straight shooter, his sharp wit and an outspoken champion for online ethics. He is bullishly pro blogging, social media, an outspoken advocate for online rights, security and technology issues.

Tech Editor and Author, BLOGBloke has been quoted in the Washington Post, New York Times and CBS News. Here are just a few of the comments that his readers have made:

Listen live on Tuesday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.



If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.



To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with long time blogger BlogBloke and I discuss the basics of creating and maintaining a successful blog. We offer some ideas that develop a blog that provides great content, ranks well on the search engines, receives good traffic, and lasts for the long term. We share ideas for writing blog posts, some suggestions for frequency of posts, and even for the length of posts. We present our thoughts on some pitfalls that can derail an otherwise great blog, including some of the challenges faced by business and company bloggers. We will also talk about company blogging policies, and utilizing social media to extend the reach of your blogs. Learn how to be a better and more effective blogger with some proven strategies and techniques to utilize for your own blog on Blog Business Success Radio.