Posts Tagged ‘influence’
Become More Persuasive – Start Where Your Audience Are At
I was moved to write this post about how to become more persuasive as a result of a recent set of experiences. I have a friend who, due to personal circumstances, has become incredibly passionate about healthy eating. He has started expressing his zeal in many ways including multiple social media posts and a hard-hitting…
Read MoreBoost Your Influence by Fine Tuning Your Intonation
In this post, I’d like to show you how a greater awareness of one particular area of your vocal delivery can boost your ability to influence others. Intonation is the way we change our vocal tone within a sentence, and it can dramatically alter the meaning of the words we speak. You can harness the power…
Read MoreGreat delivery isn’t a substitute for good content
It was a beautiful Saturday here in the UK, sunny and warm yet I spent three hours of it in a hall listening to some of the best speakers in the South of England at a Toastmasters speech contest. Why? Because I learn so much from listening to and analysing great speakers. Iain Upton, from Solent…
Read MoreWhat can a horse teach us about presenting better?
Today I went on a Horse Whispering taster day with Debby Reilly from Understanding Equus and Lynne Ewer-Carrington from Challenge Manager. To be honest I went because I was both curious and sceptical about what I could learn from a “horse trainer” but by the end of the day I was convinced. So what did…
Read MoreInfluencing Cultural Change in Organisations
I was running an influencing skills workshop earlier this week and part of the course involved a presentation by me on Prof Robert Cialdini’s six principles of influence. (NB: If you haven’t read professor Cialdini’s book on Influence, you really should!) One of the principles is called consensus and it embodies the idea that we are more…
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