MASTERING THE ART OF PERSUASION: TIPS AND TECHNIQUES TO INFLUENCE OTHERS.
Being persuasive is essential for personal and professional relationships, it allows you to influence and change others’ opinions, decisions, and actions. Whether you’re negotiating a business deal or trying to convince a friend to try a new restaurant, being persuasive can help you to inspire others and build relationships. Here are a few tips and techniques to be more persuasive:
- Understand your audience’s preferences and interests.
By understanding their motivations and interests you can create a more engaging and persuasive message that resonates with them on a personal level. You can tailor your message and use examples that are relevant and relatable to them. For example, when you’re selling a product you have to know what your audience’s goals are so that you can highlight how your product can help them achieve their goals.
- Avoid being pushy or confrontational.
It’s important to take the time to listen and understand others’ values, concerns, and needs. In order to do this, you must ask questions and be open to feedback rather than merely pushing your own agenda. For example, if you insist on your way without listening to feedback or considering others’ concerns, you risk creating resentment and damaging the relationship with the other person.
- Adopt positive and engaging body language.
Positive body language can increase persuasiveness by building rapport with your audience and establishing trust. When you use positive body language, you convey confidence, energy, and enthusiasm. This can help engage your audience and make them more receptive to your message.
- Enhance your message through hyperbole.
By emphasizing your point through the use of hyperbole, we are pushing the audience to create a vivid image of an experience they’ll have if they try to do the things we’ve said. For example, saying “This book will change your life!” when recommending your favorite book to someone.
- Make sure your audience knows what to do next.
Give your audience a clear and easy step on how to take action on what you’re persuading them to do. Whether it’s giving your phone number so that they’ll have a way to contact you or giving directions to the restaurant you’re recommending. Guide and help them so that they can achieve the goals that they have.
It’s important to remember being persuasive doesn’t mean manipulating others to get what you want. Being persuasive means that you believe in something that you want others to try to do it as well. Persuasion should aim to influence others and build trust and relationships with others so keep in mind that persuasion is often more effectual than force”
References:
MasterClass. (2021, September 10). 8 Persuasive Writing Tips and Techniques – 2023 – MasterClass. https://www.masterclass.com/articles/persuasive-writing-tips-and-techniques
How to Be More Persuasive: 6 Tips for Convincing Others. (n.d.). https://www.betterup.com/blog/how-to-be-more-persuasive
How To Be Persuasive – 15 Secrets of Persuasive People. (2021, July 28). World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/02/how-to-be-persuasive-secrets/