Paragon
Pope Francis
What it’s about:
Relinquishing traditional, controlling forms of authority, instead serving and empowering others, giving them responsibility for their decisions and actions.
Depends on:
The ability to acknowledge that you may not have all the answers and to act with humility, thus facilitating others to exert influence.
Effective at:
Encouraging others to take responsibility and be accountable for their choices; supporting others when they are preparing to lead; exemplifying service and humility as a balance to more authoritative forms of influencing.
Which Biases Create this Strategy?
What about Trust of Others?
You can use each influencing strategy with a high or low Trust of Others. This will affect how it is experienced. If Trust of Others is high, others will experience the strategy as ‘warm’. If it is low, others will experience it as is ‘cool’.