Persuade: How to persuade anyone about anything

Solve problems by better understanding communication styles.

Good communication lies at the heart of all human interaction and so many problems start with misunderstandings. Suitable for managers, supervisors, negotiators customer service and customer facing staff, indeed anybody who has to deal with others!

What’s My Communication Style Version Four will build a better understanding of communication style and its effects on colleagues: identify participant’s dominant communication style and the behaviours that distinguish it. As well as strategies for dealing with the styles of others. A greater understanding of varying communications styles can lead to less friction between groups, departments and individuals as well as enhancing productivity and reducing problems.

Are negotiations a nightmare, why not turn them into something positive with improved skills and understanding?

Understand the theory and practice of collaborative negotiation with the Negotiating Style Profile (NSP). Based on a win-win model, the NSP offers a simple framework for determining one’s negotiating style and the likely effect of that style in a negotiating situation. Ultimately, learn to focus on skills and methods that are likely to produce the best outcomes.

Some people believe that networking is simply meeting or speaking with someone new at an event!

In effect a trading or transactional relationship in which the two parties seek to discover whether or not they can sell one another anything, exchange business cards and quickly move on. But Networking is so much more!

In a world where people prefer to do business with someone they know or have been recommended to, investing a little in developing the skills and strategies that will enlarge, and make better use of the spiders web of direct and indirect contacts we all have can only be time well spent! After all think of the benefits and value of expanding those relationships over time!