Persuasion & Influencing Skills

3 Ways to Influence and Persuade

• Nagging
• Coercion
• A Better Way

Barriers to Successful Persuasion

• Thinking that you are better at persuasion than you are
• Trying too hard to persuade
• Failing to put in the effort required to get what you want
• Talking too much
• Providing too much information which just confuses people and makes them think you are trying to blind them with science.
• Getting desperate
• Being afraid of rejection
• Not being prepared
• Making assumptions about your audience
• Forgetting that the whole conversation is important

Key Points in Presentation Skills

• What is Presentation?
• Prepare Presentation
• Organize Presentation Material
• Write Presentation
• Decide on Presentation Method
• Manage Presentation Notes
• Work with Visual Aids
• Present Data
• Manage Presentation Event
• Cope with Presentation Nerves
• Deal with Questions
• Present Self-Presentation