It could be someone in your team; an important client; or even a classroom of pupils. Perhaps you have someone who is under-performing; or maybe your line manager rubs you up the wrong way. Do you have someother-than-good news to break or have to deliver a difficult message without damaging the relationship?
Getting the results you need while at the same time maintaining morale is a vital balancing act. There are times when you have to exert the power associated with your position. However, power can never empower; only influence does this. Every hierarchy knows that a subordinate’s possible resistance is more deadly than the superior’s active power.
If you would like to add some unique non-verbal intelligence skills to your repertoire – strategies and techniques to enable you to manage difficult people effectively and with confidence – then you are in the right place.