Stage 3: Known

What This Means

All people go through the five Stages of Professional Influence. You’ re Known, which means you ’ ve probably started to get some significant traction, and you ’ re feeling pretty great. Many have heard of your value, help, and authority. But you realize things need to change if you want to make it to the next level. You’ re getting some big wins, but you can ’t get beyond a familiar level of accomplishment. You know there’ s more, but you ’ re unsure how to get there. Don’t worry this is one of the most exciting times in your profession, and this stage can be the one that takes you to heights you never even imagined. But first, let’ s address the problem.

Your Key Problem

You don’t have a long-term strategy beyond the familiar tactics that got you known.

What to Focus On

In this stage, we ’ll help you mature your professional influence You’ re shifting your tactical work to strategic work, which means long-term planning will become crucial to your growth, rewards, and gains. You’ll learn how to get recurrent transactions in place and develop teammates who can manage key roles and outcomes.

What Winning Looks Like

You’ ve planned a long-term strategy and an effective team to enact it.

Stage 4: Well-Known

What This Means

All people go through the five Stages of Professional Influence. You’ re WellKnown and in the zone! You’ ve never been more U. This is a unique stage because so much is established and working. Your influence is expanding, and you are reaping the rewards. Whether you ’ re on vacation or not, you have teammates on the same page, and your influence and authority have built a culture where others naturally align. Sometimes it feels like you could just sit back and let it run. But you still want more, and you have a little fear that things could go sideways from unknown obstacles. Now what? Hang in there. We’ ve got some answers.

Your Key Problem

Your environment may dilute your influence, authority, and accomplishments.

What to Focus On

In this stage, it’ s time to reconnect with your mission and reignite your teammates. We’ re going to get you excited about your long-term aspirations again and help you build an environment to do the heavy lifting. What got you here won ’t get you beyond it An ambitious professional in this stage needs both incremental change and total proactive reinvention and we ’ re going to help you get on that path.

What Winning Looks Like

You and your team have built the environment to do the heavy lifting.

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Stage 5: Celebrated

What This Means

All people go through the five Stages of Professional Influence. The fifth and final stage is Celebrated when your influence, authority, and identity are embodied and represented in the culture others seek to immortalize your legacy. If you ’ re in this stage, you ’ ve likely decided you want to move on (or out), whether that’ s a year from now or ten years down the road. You might already have someone or a group you ’ re considering will take over when you ’ re done. But make no mistake while this is the final stage of the five, there’ s still a ton of work to do. And don’t worry if you haven’t started this process yet. We’ re going to guide you through all the steps. Does this sound like you? Let’ s get to it.

Your Key Problem

You haven’t preserved your influence and authority.

What to Focus On

You may fumble with “having” success (old patterns are too familiar to set aside), but we want to make sure you ’ re legacy is immortalized in your absence. We want to set you up to maintain and preserve everything you ’ ve built That means you ’ll focus on long-term maintenance and the transfer of all aspects of your legacy including any business, legal, leadership and cultural transfer. The work isn’t done yet, but when it is, you ’ll know. How?

What Winning Looks Like

Your legacy is maintained and immortalized in your absence.

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