In our age of ever-expanding communication possibilities, researchers have been drawn to answer the question of which communication mode is most likely to lend itself to successful negotiation. Although the answer is undetermined, Face-to-face communication has been proven to have a greater possibility of alleviating miscommunication. When youre in person, you are more apt to pick up all the nuances of the exchange. That way, you will be better able to gauge what the other p…
Factors Influencing The Impact Of Humor In Persuasion
Humors effectiveness will always ride the emotional tides of your audience members. How well a joke goes over may depend on whose company your prospects are in, whether they are winding down for the day or still up against deadlines or other workplace pressures, whether they are awake and alert or feeling drowsy, whether they have a headache, etc. Always be in tune with how your audience is feeling and always assess the atmosphere youre in to determine whether it is conduci…
Foundational Principles Of Persuasion
Central to understanding persuasion is the concept of neutrality. The laws of persuasion are neither good nor evil. They simply exist. Just as nuclear power can be used to create electricity or an atomic bomb, persuasion can be used to create unity or to force compliance. Whether the outcome is good or bad depends on the person using the laws and how that person applies the techniques of persuasion.
Hope In Humanity
Let us renew our hope in humanity. Its so easy to lose faith when someone cuts us off on the highway, when a friend blows us off (for the second time) and fails to show, when we get burned in a business deal, when a co-worker doesnt do what they said they were going to do, or when a colleague fails to keep their promise, etc.
Career Development What You Can Do To Further Your Career
Just about everyone wants to advance in his or her chosen vocation. No one wants to simply stay put; everyone wants to get somewhere else. But few people really know how to make their own advancement happen.
Courage
Courage is being scared to death – but saddling up anyway. John Wayne
Discovering Internal Motivation
You cant change a habit unless you replace it with another one. The same is true of motivation. You cant change how someone is motivated unless you replace the undesirable motivation with a desirable one. Hence, you have to understand whether your prospects motivation is a positive one or a destructive one .
Do You Have Each Aspect Of Trust
The ability to gain and keep trust is a vital factor in being able to influence others. Research has shown, time and time again, that trust is always a contributing factor in the ability to influence others. When a person trusts you, trust alone can cause them to accept your message. On the flip side, if people dont trust you, all the evidence, reasoning, facts, or figures in the world wont get them to budge.
A Look At Intrinsic Motivation
Intrinsic motivation is when an individual is motivated by internal factors, as opposed to external factors.
Personal and Professional Development Whats the Difference?
The bottom line is that we are complete humans, and as such we take our entire work knowledge home, and bring all of our personal knowledge and experience to work. So any form of growth or development will benefit you both personally and professionally.
Success on Purpose!
We are always living seems obvious but many people seem to go through most of their life on autopilot. Sure they have hopes and dreams, they have ideas and plans, yet few actually achieve them.
7 Ways To Develop Momentum And Get Things Done
One thing that I learned from bicycle racing (actually, I am not much of a bicycle racer but I do triathlons – biking needs work) is the power of momentum. In bicycle racing the way to do better and use less energy is to pedal very, very fast and powerfully to start with, give it 120% and once you are up to speed, you can simply maintain a good even cadence.