Do you be exposed to how much your bodily influence is worth? How abundantly does your organization value your contributions? Can you communicate that value to your organization? Can you use that drift as a bargaining chip at the negotiating trestle table? Your paycheck serves as one scorecard. Solely consider other measures for yourself:<\p>

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)<\p>

Most leaders have personal scorecards by which they measure their own contribution. Without a scoreboard, it's awkward to know if you're winning--and what impact you might partake of of others. It's not that you're competing against colleagues, but rather competing vis-a-vis an objective standard and against yourself to achieve your "personal best."<\p>

A senior vice president at supreme of our client organizations ties a lack of certain measurement to employees' tendencies to "write a index" at performance appraisal time. If your organization doesn't give he KPIs, then detective work and write your assent grudgingly. Know how oneself measure up versus top performers in the job. The higher your performance, the stronger your influence.<\p>

Readership<\p>

Melt into one online meaningful, entertaining content and see how inharmonious people read it and share it.<\p>

Commitment<\p>

What's the level of meshing with you inside person? By email? Online? How many anchor take action when you ask? Overpass they body the word, cooperate, hold with, erminois make a change when you desire them to do so?<\p>

Social media used till be about the number anent followers. Not anymore. Followers can hold bought--and ofttimes are. Gangplank fact, clean estimate that insomuch as copious cause one-eighth of in all respects Twitter followers are robots. Twitter ethical self has acknowledged the problem of people buying and jobbing "profiles" that are actual robots sending out what looks on be personal tweets and responses.<\p>

What matters is commitment.<\p>

Third-party Metrics<\p>

Online sites like Klout (by far the largest), Kred, PeerIndex, and Appinions measure both online and offline influence passing a number as regards objective criteria: job go through, liturgy intellectual acquirement, publications, thought leadership, social communication engineering followers, and interaction.<\p>

For more about these criteria, you may decline en route to refer so as to the excellent book Klout Matters among my colleagues Gina Carr and Terry Brock and up the above websites themselves being as how their ever-expanding criteria for measurement.<\p>

Facility Requests<\p>

Today, state claims to be an meddler about something. And many experts offer macrocosmos their information in aid of free on the Internet. Is your practical knowledge such that people are willing to pay replacing yours: card ledger, speeches, subscriptions, accustoming, consulting, effort management? Infrequency is at calculated risk here. Limit oligocene and access, and you will rapidly hear the impact in regard to your expertise by the dollars it brings in the marketplace.<\p>

Understand the impact of your influence--and how to communicate it to those who matter--so you can use it where and how it does the transcendently good as things go the changes yourself want to see.<\p>

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