If you work in a corporate Insight team, how often are you invited into the room when big decisions are being made?
And how easy do you find it to make such an impression when you're there that you’re invited back?
In every organisation there are managers who have more influence on outcomes than others regardless of their job title. There are those who find it easy to build credibility and trust. And there are some who are more adept at driving change through other people.
All these attributes are often the natural consequences of having developed personal impact.
Personal impact isn’t just a quality for Insight leaders to focus on, it’s something we should all consider if we want to thrive and survive in a fast-moving, rapidly changing corporate environment.
And it’s a critical thing for us to consider when the world of Insight as we have got used to thinking about it is unlikely to last long in its present form. Wherever you are on the AI-adoption curve, many of the skills and attributes that have given us opportunities and promotions in the past will mean less in the future.
It will be all about the extent to which we can help our organisations make sense of diverse information, apply learnings to business problems, build scenarios about future markets, and influence decision-makers to adopt the evidence-based opinions we have formed that will determine our success.
We can’t do any of these unless we have developed a personal brand that helps us get invited into the room, and once in it, demonstrate sufficient personal presence that we are invited back
So how can we increase our personal impact?
Please listen to find out more!
Topics Discussed
- The solutions suggested so far for those who want to shape the future of Insight (3.04)
- The need to increase our personal impact (6.26)
- Being invited to the table and then earning our right to stay (8.50)
- But we’re not natural self-publicists! (11.26)
- Revealing our personal brand values (13.13)
- James’s knowledge set at Barclays (15.50)
- Hacks we can develop (21.39)
James Wycherley
Host of the Transforming Insight podcast
Chief Executive, IMA