Power

I think that sometimes I am a powerful person. I can assign specific work to my subordinates and help them finish their work with the resources and knowledge I have at my job. I can also use different kinds of incentives to motivate my subordinates at work. I empower my workers by giving my workers great autonomy and sharing my knowledge of the work they are doing.

From this class, I learned how to show other people that I am powerful. I also know how use legitimate, reward, coercive, and information  power based on my working experience. However, I need to improve my skill of rational persuasion. Quite often I have some new business ideas, but I cannot persuade the managers that my ideas are feasible. To accomplish this goal, I will gather more information to support my arguments before sharing my business ideas with the managers, and I will also try to improve my logical thinking so that the managers can follow my arguments more easily.