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Use your power to become an effective influencer.
Power corrupts. Lately we've seen that happen all too often in many of our institutions and organizations. But power doesn't have to be dirty. Like leadership, it's a value neutral skill. The outcome depends upon the qualities, and in many cases, the gender of the person using it.
Dr. Natasha Chapman is the director of minority recruitment and retention at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; her sister, Minisa Chapman-Huls, is a doctoral student in educational administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Choosing an essay from the book, Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership, the two women reflected on the issues of power and influence during a session at the University of Nebraska's Women in Educational Leadership conference held in Lincoln in October.
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Chapman's interest in the book is personal. Besides being asked to review it, she's thinking about the impact of gender on communication as it relates to power and influence in her own life. "I want to reflect on the things I can do to present myself so they know that I can do my job," said the new PhD.
Practical influence
Choosing Kira Hower's essay "Influencing for Impact" in Enlightened Power (2005) the sisters discussed some practical definitions of influence. These included the practices of sharing, motivating, making an impact and role modeling, the latter implying some kind of change.
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