Momentum: How to Make it Easy for them to Say ‘Yes’
An important part of influence is making it as easy as possible for someone to comply. And there are two great techniques from the world of time management to generate momentum and make it easy for them to say yes.
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Influencing and Persuading
This video is part of course module number 2.6.3
Program 2: Manager as Communicator
Course 6: Influencing and Persuading
Section 3: The Psychology of Influence and Persuasion
Other videos in this section include:
🎬 WIIFM? How to Use Self-interest to Influence and Persuade https://youtu.be/sVf70Hj5pOs
🎬 Power of the Word ‘Because’ in Influence and Persuasion https://youtu.be/ycoBykhpkes
🎬 Peer Pressure: The Awesome Power of Social Proof https://youtu.be/1HWkoIAgOuc
🎬 Use the Power of Scarcity with Integrity https://youtu.be/jAh–JIlxaU
🎬 Getting Agreement by Slicing up the Pie https://youtu.be/i9SNyDM4eFw
🎬 The Jiminy Cricket Effect: Cognitive Dissonance and the Urge for Consistency https://youtu.be/dzUMLoWQgKo
🎬 Paradox of Choice: Influencing through Selection https://youtu.be/Iuf7s_rb_hE
= = LESSON NOTES = =
In time management, one of the biggest problems some people face is procrastination: putting things off. And some approaches to handling this are all about making the thing as easy as possible to do – and so reduce the friction to action.
The same principles will help you when you want to influence someone to do something.
Don’t ask them to do a big thing.
Instead, use the principles of:
– baby steps
– Consistency
– Momentum
Give Them a Plan
The second principle is to show you how you have thought it through. Show them a plan. And follow these principles:
– precise timing
– convenient timing
= = RECOMMENDED EXERCISE = =
1. Next time you need someone to do something for you, make it easy to say ‘yes’. Try a couple of these techniques. Then the time after, add another one or two. Find out which ones work best for different people. (3 MC CPD Points)
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📖 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
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00:00 – Make it easy to comply
00:20 – Lessons from Time Management
00:38 – Friction
00:53 – Principle #1: Small and easy
01:18 – Baby Steps
01:42 – Momentum
02:29 – Consistency
03:19 – Principle #2: Plan
03:31 – Plans give Confidence
04:06 – Precise timing
04:59 – Convenient Timing
05:47 – And also…
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