Want Engaged Employees? How to Persuade Without Pushing

Ask Annie at CNNmoney

The way most of us go about trying to influence others is exactly backwards, says a new book. Here's how to get it right. 

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The Persuasion Cycle - A Gift from Heartfelt Leadership

I have recently been making presentations to organizations and companies where the single handout (and the single diagram from my book, "Just Listen" Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone, which is for a limited time being promoted at Amazon Kindle for $2.99) is The Persuasion Cycle below:

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Managing Expectations

The more explicit you set expectations (on both sides of a transaction) at the beginning as well as consequences (to both sides) if they are not met, the less you need to manage disappointment and anger later on.

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Whoever gets it, gets it - the Los Angeles Mayoral Race

Only when you get where we are coming from, will we let you lead us to where you want us to go.

I have been watching and reading what the candidates for Mayor in Los Angles have been saying and how they're saying it.  I have also been watching how their potential voters are listening and what they're listening for.

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Finally the Monkey is Off My Back - Relapse Prevention is Here

Stabilization of mental, drug and alcohol disorders takes place at in patient, out patient programs and mental health professionals' offices; treatment can only take place where patients live. - Pete Linnett, Founder and CEO, Life Adjustment Team

For nearly 35 years I have been in collusion with an appalling flaw and weakness bordering on a travesty in the mental health, drug and alcohol treatment systems.

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Lance Armstrong vs. Oprah and Us

Lance Armstrong - Part 1

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Now this is what I call Heartbreaking

Dr. Peter Linnerooth spent nearly five years wearing an Army uniform, including the bloodiest 12 months in Iraq at the height of the surge. As a mental-health professional, his top mission was to keep troops from killing themselves. After he returned home, he spent another two years trying to save the vets he loved, working for the VA in California and Nevada.

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Real Presence, the Foreplay to Real Influence

Before you have real influence on people, it helps to have real presence... So don't leave home without it.

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