Persuading Others

Ensure that your ideas get a fair hearing by cultivating your persuasion skills. Discover how to establish credibility and how make it easier for people to respond with a "yes."

Introduction

• Persuasion skills are an investment

1. Meeting Someone New

• Get new people to like you
• Establish your credibility
• Overcome a bad first impression

2. Persuading the People You Already Know

• Identify who you need to persuade
• Get others to say yes to your ideas
• Use the outside-in strategy to get noticed

3. Communicating with Authority

• Think like a TED speaker to become influential
• Borrow other's expertise to be more persuasive
• Disarm naysayers

Conclusion

• Use key strategies to be more persuasive