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.

    每個雇員都有五種可以利用的權力資源。估量自己潛在的權力資源并發揮你的特長。

    個人權利也是你的魅力，你實現目標的激情，與人交流和激勵的能力，還有你的領導才能。

    人際關系人際權力 來自你在工作中所建立、培養和保持的關系網和朋友圈；來自公司內其他部門的同事--使你及時了解他們部門的情況；來自公司主管--將特殊項目交由你負責；來自公司內其他人等.

    職位權力這跟你在公司機構中所處的位置有關，業主，董事長和首席執行官擁有很多職位權力，而接待員，職員和典型的工人幾乎沒有什么職位權力。

    知識權利是基于你對你的工作，你的部門和公司機構所掌握的知識和特長。

    任務權利存在于你的工作中。有些工作在本質上比其他工作對公司的健康發展更重要。例如通過銷售產品和服務賺錢的銷售人員，通常情況下他們擁有很大的任務權利。

    你可以利用你擁有的任何一種權利資源來發展你的另一種權力資源