What Makes An Effective Influencer?

Winning influencers share a common set of attitudes and behaviors that ensure consistent success. Studies have shown that they:

• Indicate the benefits of their ideas and are able to put a context around these benefits so it creates greater impact on the individual

• Neutralize resistance, usually in advance. They anticipate, respond and are able to plant a positive association to potential areas of resistance before the other person has even had a chance to voice them

• Find alternative ways to influence others and demonstrate high levels of flexibility. This means that if the approach they are taking doesn’t get them their desired results they try a different approach. If this doesn’t work they try another approach. Ultimately, the person with the greatest flexibility will always have control over the situation

• Listen attentively to what others say because this improves mutual understanding and conveys respect for the opinions of others. Giving good attention to people makes them more intelligent. Poor attention makes them stumble over their words and seem stupid

• Uncover needs and wants because they appreciate that every individual is unique. They have their needs, their own set of problems and their own motives for doing what they do

• Empathies continuously and are able to adopt different perceptual positions to connect with the feelings of others in different situations. Not only do effective influencers manage to put themselves in their customers’ shoes, they are also able to wear the shoes of individuals in their sales team

• Have developed high levels of sensory awareness. This means that their senses are fine-tuned to pick-up on the smallest details include non-verbal signals that are sometimes different to what a person is saying

• Create and maintain rapport throughout their communication that enables them to deepen relationships, build higher amounts of trust and minimize resistance

• Eliminate weak statements from their language and are able to create multiple positive associations by avoiding negative words and using negations in a positive way. For example; “I’m not going to say that this strategy will be totally successful.” The unconscious mind has to think about the strategy being totally successful, irrespective if the word ‘not’ is contained within the statement

• Base the success of their communication on the response it produces in others. If other people don’t respond in the way that the influencer was wanting, they accept responsibility and change their communication until they do achieve their desired outcome.

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Creating Elevator Speeches that SING!
Thursday October 22nd 2009 1:00 PM EASTERN

With the proliferation of networking as a way to grow one’s business, we must constantly be prepared to answer the question, “So, what do you do?”  in about 60 seconds or less. 

More important, we must answer in a way that elicits the response, “I need to talk to you!” or, “May I have your card?” or better yet, “You’re just the person I’ve been looking for.”

Are you equipped with your 60 second pitch?

Do you know how to talk about what you do in a compelling, clear concise way?

Do you feel confident and well prepared?

Do you know your elevator speech cold, or do you ramble, a stream of words coming out of your mouth, unconnected to your brain, until you finish talking, wondering what in the world you just said?

Join us as Debbie Fay, founder of bespeak™ presentation solutions, shows us how to create elevator speeches that SING.  Debbie will:

Walk through the components of a successful 60 second pitch.
Illustrate which words to use and which to avoid.
Offer different templates into which your own material can be placed.

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