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.

    每个雇员都有五种可以利用的权力资源。估量自己潜在的权力资源并发挥你的特长。

    个人权利也是你的魅力，你实现目标的激情，与人交流和激励的能力，还有你的领导才能。

    人际关系人际权力 来自你在工作中所建立、培养和保持的关系网和朋友圈；来自公司内其他部门的同事--使你及时了解他们部门的情况；来自公司主管--将特殊项目交由你负责；来自公司内其他人等.

    职位权力这跟你在公司机构中所处的位置有关，业主，董事长和首席执行官拥有很多职位权力，而接待员，职员和典型的工人几乎没有什么职位权力。

    知识权利是基于你对你的工作，你的部门和公司机构所掌握的知识和特长。

    任务权利存在于你的工作中。有些工作在本质上比其他工作对公司的健康发展更重要。例如通过销售产品和服务赚钱的销售人员，通常情况下他们拥有很大的任务权利。

    你可以利用你拥有的任何一种权利资源来发展你的另一种权力资源