Introducing the Keller Influence Indicator (KII®)

Have you heard the good news? There is now a scientifically proven, valid instrument that can assess your potential for being influential.

This instrument is able to determine, based on your unique responses, how influential you could be in any situation, any conversation, at work, at home and in any relationship.

The best part is you can do this by using what you already own – your 7 Traits of Influence™.

Empathy: How to Better Identify With Others

Most people guess incorrectly about the best way to reach out in empathy to others. Yet identifying with others is one of the chief means we gain likeability, one of the Seven Influence Traits®. Of course we don’t empathize with others merely to increase a score; however, having people understand we are emotionally in their corner does help us lead them.

What Is Empathy?

The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner - Merriam Webster

Which Road to Empathy?

Research suggests that a process of systematic reasoning outperforms gut instinct for understanding what other people are thinking and feeling. This counters our own self-perception that gut instinct would be the best means to empathize.

Servant Leadership and The Seven Influence Traits: Part Three

Through examining how servant leadership is tied to each of the Keller Seven Influence Traits® and strengthening each of these traits, a crucial step will be taken in creating a healthy culture of servant leaders.

How To Increase Confidence: A Core Leadership Trait

Reduced confidence leads to increased anxiety, procrastination and eventually paralysis. As a leader, this paralysis can stall the entire organization.

Every leader struggles with confidence. Some of us do only in certain moments; others do on a more consistent basis. Self-confidence is the fundamental basis from which leadership grows Your Keller Influence Indicator® inventory can provide you clear insight into you natural level of confidence. 

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