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How to Change Someone’s Mind

You really do need to bring all of your influencing and persuasion skills to bear if you want to change someone’s mind. So, in this video, I’ll share my top ten tips.

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 Get Someone to Help you or Do You a Favor https://youtu.be/3IoDTWY7g7s
🎬 Forgiveness: How to Get Forgiven https://youtu.be/ZZVQazpxu-U

= = LESSON NOTES = =
1. Show me unforeseen consequences
2. Avoid blame
3. Take me for a walk
4. Give me the credit for your point of view
5. Show me how my position is inconsistent
6. Ask me how critics would perceive my position
7. Stay committed
8. Show me other people who oppose my interpretation https://youtu.be/E4sLIq5pxGk
9. Introduce new information
10. Make concessions yourself https://youtu.be/x9h-rEvfyrs

= = RECOMMENDED EXERCISE = =
1. Next time you need to change somebody’s, 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 = =
📖 My own book on Influence (introductory level)
– How to Influence in Any Situation (Brilliant Influence 2nd Ed) https://geni.us/dAS7
📖 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

⭕️ 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 = =
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00:00 – How to change somebody’s mind
00:24 – Tip #1
00:47 – Tip #2
01:14 – Tip #3
01:51 – Tip #4
02:34 – Tip #5
02:56 – Tip #6
03:20 – Tip #7
03:38 – Tip #8
04:09 – Tip #9
05:07 – Tip #10

#ChangeMind #ManagementCourses #VerbalPersuasion

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Paradox of Choice: Influencing through Selection
Momentum: How to Make it Easy for them to Say ‘Yes’
The Jiminy Cricket Effect: Cognitive Dissonance and the Urge for Consistency
Getting Agreement by Slicing up the Pie
Use the Power of Scarcity with Integrity
Peer Pressure: The Awesome Power of Social Proof
The Power of the Word ‘Because’ in Influence and Persuasion
WIIFM? How to Use Self-interest to Influence and Persuade
Forgiveness: How to Get Forgiven
Get a Favor: How to Get Someone to Help you or Do You a Favor
How to Win an Argument
Social Proof: Recruiting Support for Your Verbal Persuasion
Help them Persuade Themselves: the Influence of Questions
Persuasive Language: How to Influence with the Words You Choose
Rhetoric: The Golden Key to Verbal Persuasion
KISS: Keep It Short & Simple when You Want to Influence & Persuade
Matching & Mirroring: How to Influence by Building Rapport
Tit-for-Tat: How to Influence with Reciprocation
How to Influence People by Appealing to their Emotion
How to Use Reason and Logic in Influence & Persuasion
How to Build Trust. And Why it Matters in Influence & Persuasion
How to Use Your Authority to Influence and Persuade
How to Influence by Making People Feel Good
Appearance Matters in Influence & Persuasion
Ethos: the Importance of Character in Influence & Persuasion
The Core of Influence & Persuasion: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos – Character, Reason, and Emotion
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: the Ethics of Influence and Persuasion

Mike Clayton

About Mike Clayton 

Dr Mike Clayton is a (former) Project Manager and now a management educator. Having trained thousands of people at live workshops, seminars, and conferences, he now delivers training mainly via video. He has 14 books with international publishers and runs two successful YouTube channels. He is also the founder of OnlinePMCourses.com

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