If you want a raise, sometimes you need to persuade your boss. If you want to convince your team to adopt a change, help your staff make choices, or choose the best place for lunch, often influence is involved. This one-day Influence and Persuasion Skills?workshop will help participants learn how to influence and persuade in a variety of areas.
Topics include: how persuasion differs from manipulation; how to apply techniques of persuasion and influence; getting convincing conversations and presentations underway; and using storytelling techniques to extend influence, and more.
This training course is completely customizable, so trainers can add, remove, or edit content to brand the course and to meet the needs of a particular group of learners. A one-time purchase of this courseware makes it easy to teach Influence and Persuasion Skills as many times as you like. Each package contains an instructor guide, student manual, PowerPoint slides, and quick reference guide.
How to Use This Guide
Session One: Course Overview
Session Two: Understanding Persuasion
How Persuasion Works
Pre-Assignment Review
Session Three: Preparing to Persuade
Pushing and Pulling
Communicating with Confidence
Frame of Reference
Session Four: Getting Off on the Right Foot
Building Rapport
Matching and Mirroring
Pacing
Leading
Session Five: Presentation Strategies
Five Points for Any Presentation
Preparing with the Five S Pattern
Session Six: Using Stories to Persuade
The Importance of Story
Storytelling Time
Session Seven: Using Neuro Linguistic Programming
Defining Neuro Linguistic Programming
A Brief History
Understanding Common NLP Terms
Embedding Positive or Negative Commands
Influencing Outcomes
Recommended Reading List
Post-Course Assessment
Pre- and Post-Assessment Answer Keys
Personal Action Plan
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