Get a Favor: How to Get Someone to Help you or Do You a Favor
We often need other people to do something for us. But we don’t necessarily have the authority to tell them to do it, or to ask them and expect them to comply. This is where influence is at a premium. You need to combine some long-term strategies with some shorter-term tactics. Let’s look at how you can ask for a favor and get the help you need.
Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*.
🔎 See below for details
Influencing and Persuading
This video is part of course module number 2.6.2
Program 2: Manager as Communicator
Course 6: Influencing and Persuading
Section 2: Verbal Influence and Persuasion
Other videos in this section include:
🎬 Rhetoric: The Golden Key to Verbal Persuasion https://youtu.be/dKXeNijTCtE
🎬 Persuasive Language: How to Influence with the Words You Choose https://youtu.be/NIzb-JkLHJ4
🎬 Help them Persuade Themselves: the Influence of Questions https://youtu.be/_iVrYapVmYE
🎬 Social Proof: Recruiting Support for Your Verbal Persuasion https://youtu.be/E4sLIq5pxGk
🎬 How to Win an Argument https://youtu.be/jajwIEvJ-ks
🎬 How to Change Someone’s Mind https://youtu.be/TTusOjf9YdY
🎬 Forgiveness: How to Get Forgiven https://youtu.be/ZZVQazpxu-U
= = LESSON NOTES = =
1. Build up credit with me
2. Ask for a much smaller favour in advance
3. Give me notice so I can schedule it
4. Give me a reason
5. Be very precise in what you ask for
6. Pick your moment
7. Make it self-contained
8. Portray it as a continuation of something I’m already doing
9. Show me that you are also helping yourself
10. Let me know you are relying on me
11. Presuppose that I will say “yes”
12. Tell me what’s in it for me
And finally…
If at first you don’t succeed
= = RECOMMENDED EXERCISE = =
1. Next time you need a favor or to get someone to help you, use some of these techniques. Afterwards, evaluate what you have learned (3 MC CPD Points)
= = DOWNLOADS = =
Free Resources
🧰 CPD Tools – https://gum.co/MC-CPD
Paid resources
🧳 Management Courses Onboarding Kit – https://gum.co/MC-ObK ($3)
= = RECOMMENDED READING = =
đź“– My own book on Influence (introductory level)
– How to Influence in Any Situation (Brilliant Influence 2nd Ed) https://geni.us/dAS7
đź“– Excellent books at a more advanced level
– Influence: Science and Practice (a classic) https://geni.us/DIX0kFL
– Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change https://geni.us/3nBJM
– The Influence Agenda (for Stakeholder Engagement) https://geni.us/InfAg
– Methods of Persuasion https://geni.us/EVYP
– Presuasion https://geni.us/aBZo0XO
– 5 Paths to Persuasion https://geni.us/Vg2vB
â•ď¸Ź Links to our book recommendations are affiliated through Amazon
Managers Need a Basic set of kit to do your job well. Here are my top recommendations: https://kit.co/MikeClayton/manager-s-work-kit (the links are affiliated)
= = MANAGEMENT COURSES CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) POINTS = =
You can record your Management Courses CPD points on our free, downloadable CPD record log.
đź““ Download it at: https://gum.co/MC-CPD
Each video has two levels of MC CPD points. For this video:
– If you simply watched the video, record 2 MC CPD points
– If you also carried out all of the recommended exercises, score a total of Y MC CPD points
00:00 – How to get help or a favor
00:42 – Tip #1
01:09 – Tip #2
01:40 – Tip #3
02:34 – Tip #4
02:59 – Tip #5
03:25 – Tip #6
03:46 – Tip #7
04:19 – Tip #8
04:41 – Tip #9
05:04 – Tip #10
05:29 – Tip #11
06:02 – Tip #12
06:14 – One Last Tip
#VerbalInfluence #ManagementCourses #Favor
source