Business English Pod / Persuasion / Page 2

Skills 360 – How to Influence People (2)

Business English, Business Skills 360, Persuasion /

*** Get all the Skills 360 lessons in our free Business English App for iPhone & iPad:
Download from the App Store

Business English for Influencing People 2

Welcome back to the Skills 360 for today’s lesson on language and techniques for influencing people.

The power to influence can allow you to do many wonderful things, such as lead people, change their minds, motivate them to action, and negotiate successfully. These are abilities that can help you in life and in business. Now, it might seem like some people naturally have more influence than others, but that’s not always the case. Many powerful people have learned how to influence people using specific techniques.

In our last lesson, we had a look at what you should talk about and how you should talk about it. Today, I want to take a closer look at some language techniques that can open the door to greater influence. And these techniques all help build rapport or trust with the person you’re talking to.

Free Resources: Lesson Module | Quiz & Vocab | PDF Transcript

Download: Podcast MP3

Skills 360 – How to Influence People (1)

Business English, Business Skills 360, Persuasion /

*** Get all the Skills 360 lessons in our free Business English App for iPhone & iPad:
Download from the App Store

Business English Skills and Techniques for Influencing People

Welcome back to the Skills 360 for today’s lesson how to influence people.

There are many different reasons why you might want to influence people. Maybe you’re trying to get their support for your idea, or maybe you want to inspire them, or maybe you want to convince them to do something. Whatever the case may be, I think you’ll find the techniques we’re going to learn today very useful for winning people over.

Free Resources: Lesson Module | Quiz & Vocab | PDF Transcript

Download: Podcast MP3

Skills 360 – Defending your Ideas (Part 2)

Business English, Business Skills 360, English for Meetings, Persuasion /

*** Get all the Skills 360 lessons in our free Business English App:
Download from the App Store

Welcome back to Skills 360 for today’s lesson on how to defend yourself and your ideas.

One of the tough things in business is that you’re not just dealing with ideas and rational decisions. You’re dealing with people. And people don’t always take a cool and logical approach to things, even if you do. They get emotional about ideas and worked up about disagreement. And you might get that way too. Passion is a good thing, but too much negative emotion is counterproductive. So how can we manage people’s emotions while continuing to defend ourselves?

Free Resources: Transcript | Quizzes | PDF Transcript

Download: Podcast MP3

Skills 360 – Defending your Ideas (Part 1)

Business English, Business Skills 360, English for Meetings, Persuasion /

*** Get all the Skills 360 lessons in our free Business English App:
Download from the App Store

Welcome back to Skills 360 for today’s lesson on how to defend yourself and your ideas in a competitive world.

Some people might think that good ideas will win the day, simply because they’re good ideas. But it’s not that simple. If you’ve got good ideas, you’re going to have to convince people of their value. And you’ll definitely have to defend them against all the people out to criticize or compete with you. It’s a dog eat dog world, as they say, and you want to make sure you’re not the dinner.

Free Resources: Transcript | Quizzes | PDF Transcript

Download: Podcast MP3

Skills 360 – Selling your Ideas (Part 2)

Business English, Business Skills 360, Communication, Persuasion /

Welcome back to the Business Skills 360 podcast. In this lesson, we’ll look at some more tips and techniques for selling your ideas.

Now, you know your ideas are good, but how do others? You need to make them think or even just feel that they are good. Last week, we looked at some techniques you can use. In this show, we’ll look at attitudes that you can adopt. This isn’t exactly about what you say, it’s about how you say it and the feelings or impressions your delivery creates.

Free Resources: Transcript | Quiz

Download: Podcast MP3