How Can You Change Made-up Minds - Part 2

For those cases when you face people with made-up minds, we continue to give you some ideas to get unstuck and to get other people to change their minds. In part 1 we used some of the ideas of persuasion guru, Robert Cialdini.

Many powerful ways to change made-up minds use emotion. Business psychologist Peter Sullivan often explains that the word emotion can be written as e-motion and explains this as e is the electrical force that puts us into motion.

Gary Peacock, PersuasionGary Peacock29 June 2018Persuasion, Persuading for Results, Change, Emotion, StoriesComment

The Power of Telling Stories

A story or metaphor is a persuasive use of words because stories persuade with emotion.

Some of the best persuaders: sales people, negotiators, psychiatrists, counselors and consultants persuade with stories and metaphors.

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Use great stories to persuade

Tell more stories to persuade. If you have attended our persuading for results workshop, you will have experienced the power of stories. At the end of day one we ask participants to come to day 2 ready to tell a story about themselves.