subject: Persuasion Skills: How To Influence Anybody To Do Anything [print this page] Persuasion Skills: How To Influence Anybody To Do Anything
Have you ever been frustrated when you know what is best for someone, but no matter how hard you try, they just don't do it? If you are fed up with being ignored and have your ideas overlooked (even if they are the best!) it's time you increased your persuasion skills, and discovered the secrets of influencing anybody to do anything. Influence is basically divided into two key groups, verbal and non-verbal. Verbal persuasion skills involve the words you use, and non verbal persuasion skills are the way you use your voice tone and tonality to influence others. Here's a test for you: If you want to become an influence expert fast, what should you spend most of your time on? The surprising truth is verbal persuasion, or the words you say, are less than one 10th as powerful as the body language, voice tone, posture, gestures and timing behind it. This means that if you want to become most persuasive now, you need to improve your body language. The bad news: There is so much to learn, and in this short article we can't cover everything. The good news: Here are three quick ways you can make your body language more persuasive now. Incorporate these three quick tips, and you will be able to influence people a lot more successfully. 1: Stand straight and tall.
Pay attention to your posture, and you'll subcommunicate that you're fit, healthy, confident and in control. May sound basic - but just like a smile, this will work wonders. 2: Keep your gestures slow. Confident people are persuasive people, and confident people know they don't need to rush things. Quick, jittery gestures make you look nervous. Keep them slow. 3: Take up space! No, I don't mean that you should double your portions at Mc Donalds - I mean that when you are sitting and standing, adopt large, spread out postures. Again, this is a sign of confidence and security.
