Influencing Leaders: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor

Transform yourself from a trusted strategic advisor to a trusted strategic influencer.Become the advisor/influencer leaders rely on for strategic clarity and trusted counsel.Executives face relentless pressure, ambiguity, and isolation, requiring advisors who deliver actionable counsel.In Influencing Leaders, James E. Lukaszewski and Helio Fred Garcia provide the proven framework for becoming a trusted strategic influencer partner that leaders turn to when facing critical decisions.The book presents seven essential disciplines: establishing trustworthiness, mastering verbal influence, developing management perspective, thinking strategically, recognizing patterns, structuring constructive advice, and teaching leaders to apply counsel effectively.Practical tools include the Three-Minute Drill, Five Imperatives for Advisors/Influencers, Pattern Recognition techniques, and assessments for developing capabilities.Readers will also find: The five components of trust and ten ways advisors co