How To Gain Power and Influence Without Selling Your Soul?

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It's important to know gain power and influence is not something that you can do overnight but it’s a goal that can certainly be achieved if you worked hard for it and gave it the time it requires. In order to gain power and influence you need to build personal power then market it to others.

Power has two elements, personal power and perceived power. Personal power is the type of power that makes you reach your goals or stand your ground in hard times and achieve anything you want. 

Perceived power is the power that the people who know you think that you posses. A person might be powerful but completely unnoticed to those around him and another person might be weak yet appears to be powerful to some people

Ways to gain power and influence:-

• Stay true to yourself
• Be approachable
• Be consistent and reliable 
• Be knowledgeable
• Be resilient
• Allow people to know you personally 
• Treat all people professionally and with respect  
• Be patient
• Help others achieve personal success 
• Handle shocks with dignity