Wednesday, October 5, 2016

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