The ability to persuade others to agree with you and influence their behaviour is a valuable tool for achieving personal and professional objectives. Learning more about persuasion and how to be more convincing boosts trust, innovation, and growth. When you make a suggestion, you can use persuasion to gain support for your plan from others.
Persuading someone to accept your business proposal, loans, or convincing your company to accept your new ideas that could propel the company's and your own growth are all examples of persuasion in everyday life. In your personal life, persuade your parents to go on a school trip or your partner to go on a vacation. These are just a few examples of how persuasion can be used in everyday situations.
No matter how brilliant you are, you cannot fully implement your ideas unless you have the support of others. We are in desperate need of people's recognition and support.
It is necessary to persuade people in your daily lives, and here are seven effective methods for doing so, as well as a bonus. There is an important caution at the end of the article that you must follow. You will be unable to use these methods effectively if you violate it.
1. Understand their requirements.
Everyone is unique, and their needs differ from one another. Some people need incentives and will respond to them, while others will respond for support, and still others may not respond at all. To persuade them to join your cause, listen to them, pay attention to what they want, and try to truly comprehend their needs. If you can offer them something they want, you will most likely persuade them to go your way.
For example, if you are in school and need to attend a school trip and want to persuade your parents to accept it. Understand their needs and what they expect from you; it could be good grades in your school. If you get them, you will almost certainly make them your way.
2. Obtain their gratitude
People are most persuadable immediately after receiving assistance and expressing gratitude for it. Help them with their work, however small. Try to elicit their gratitude and get them to thank you.
Heading from your way to assist someone may help you establish an interaction as well as enhance their mindset toward your ideas. Someone who perceives you as generous may be more likely to listen to your perspective. Furthermore, many people feel obligated to return favours as part of a social contract, so your favour may inspire the others to support your stance as a way of saying thank you.
3. Reiterate your thoughts.
To psychologically persuade somebody to hear your point, use repetition. Repetition is an effective persuasion tool because it allows people to become more acquainted with an idea before making the decision. Discover effective means to emphasize the virtues of your ideas in a casual setting without directly asking somebody to concur with you.
For example, if you want your customers to buy your products or services, persuade them by displaying your advertisements repeatedly. Getting people to talk about the advantages of your company's products or services. This is a large-scale marketing strategy used to persuade people to buy their products. This strategy is widely employed by all large corporations. It was the most powerful tool for persuading others, causing them to make a decision in your favour.
You can also use this in your daily life by emphasising the same things over and over. This gets into their subconscious mind and triggers them to favour you.
4. Warn them of their losses
People are more easily persuaded when faced with loss instead of gain. We all want to play a safe game with few losses. Make them feel as if they would suffer losses if they rejected your ideas. This is another common marketing strategy. FOMO stands for Fear Of Missing Out.
You may have seen offers on Amazon for Black Friday deals, and they will state that the offer is only valid for a limited time. These offers will expire after a certain period of time. So get the items now. You will be tempted to take advantage of the offers, and some will end up wasting their money, while smart people like you and me will use the offers constructively to save money.
People are warning us about our losses while making limited-time offers. If we did not take advantage of that offer, we risk losing money by overpaying for the product. This applies to everything, including your personal life.
Make people aware of your ideas by describing the consequences of not following them. This cannot be achieved by making a limited-time offer, as they did. We should change some things, such as explaining the benefits of your ideas and the importance of acting on them as soon as possible. You are indirectly warning them about their losses by doing so. Don't tell them about their losses; let them figure it out on their own.
5. Change you to we
The use of the word "we" instantaneously expresses a sense of unity and support. The use of the word "you" in persuasion may raise some eyebrows and even cause offence. Using "you" makes one feel isolated. So, when persuading someone, avoid using you.
For example, you require this service to save time. Replace the preceding sentence with, We require this service to save time. Doesn't it seem like less intimate and just a little magnificent?
6. Discuss the opposing viewpoint as well
Even if it might appear contradictory, discussing the opposite point of view will strengthen your argument. It demonstrates that you understand what you're talking about, have considered the benefits and drawbacks, and yet still realise what it is you're implying.
7. Make people say yes
Yes is a powerful and persuasive word. People prefer consistency and will want to continue saying yes, it turns out. They'll be happier if you get them to agree early on.
Continue to express yourself positively. Discuss topics that they are interested in, topics on which you both agree, and anything that has them saying "yes" and never saying "no." When you ask the ideal question that you want them to agree on at the time. They will not want to deviate from their established pattern. They will almost certainly agree with you.
Bonus points
1. Narration is an effective persuasion strategy, and telling a story that includes the other person may compliment them and begin to introduce them to a future they had not considered while also providing a persuasive argument. If you have the opportunity, use this strategy.
2. I hope you all aware of this strategy as we discussed about this earlier in our blog. That is applying the power of silence to win arguments, by using deliberate pauses People who are nervous with silence are more likely to be overly talkative in order to fill any pauses. When you stop for a moment and wait patiently, the other person may unthinkingly reveal more details about themselves or try to alleviate uneasiness by agreeing to your ideas. Silence also allows you to listen, process the information, and plan your next response in order to strategically connect with the other person. This is a killer technique.
Learn more about this by reading our The Power of Silence article
Caution
Make sure you're persuading for a good reason, not for selfish gain or to defraud someone. If you're trying to persuade someone to support a bad cause. People will notice you because of your nonverbal communication. Which is beyond our control, and our communication is made up of 10% verbal communication and 90% nonverbal communication. It includes your uncontrollable facial expressions and gestures.
Let me know in the comments which persuasion technique is your favourite and which one you plan to try.
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