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A set of slides summarizing my approach to influencing skills as a trainer and coach. Sources of the main ideas are given.
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Influencing skillsAlan Barker
Kairos Training Limited
These slides represent some of the supporting material from a training session.
Information on the slides may therefore be incomplete.
What’s the difference?
Influencing: using behaviour to change someone else’s behaviour
Persuading: convincing, arguing, appealing to rationality
Maybe! The distinction is not absolute.
Influencing works by acting on the unconscious.
We are less likely to be influenced if we notice that we are being influenced.
Do you agree?
Do we communicate what we intend?
What’s the context?
A one-way street
What does it all mean?
Whatever we understand has been communicated – whether it was intended or not.
There is a paradox in communicating.
I cannot expect you to understand everything I tell you;
and I cannot expect you to understand
only what I tell you.
[with thanks to Patrick Bouvard]
Finnish Professor of human communication.
He is best known for a set of humorous maxims about how communication in organizations goes wrong.
They illustrate some of the problems of using the Shannon-Weaver transmission model.
Communication usually fails, except by accident.
If communication can fail, it will fail.
If communication cannot fail, it still usually fails.
If communication seems to succeed in the way you intend – someone’s misunderstood.
If you are content with your message, communication is certainly failing.
If a message can be interpreted in several ways, it will be interpreted in a manner that maximizes the damage.
There is always someone who knows better than you what your message means.
The more we communicate, the more communication fails.
Understanding is pattern-matching.
Continuous
Complicated
Contextual
We cannot not communicate.
[Paul Watzlawick, Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California]
Relationship
Information
Action
ReciprocityAssimilationScarcityConsistencyAuthorityLiking Robert Cialdini
Based on two variables
Status
Emotional disclosure
Our social position
Assessed on a simple sliding scale: low to high
Always relative
Always provisional: time; situation; people
Gained behaviourally from other people
Statements of fact, making speeches Statements about objectives Demands for agreement on specifics Demands for commitment Expressions of opinion
Asking about values and principles Questions about needs and objectives Probing for feelings and perceptions Asking for explanations and examples Listening and following up
Rapport could be defined as the process of levelling status.
The mirroring system, which allows us, to some extent, to share the experiences of others
The mentalizing system, which allows us to make predictions about people's actions on the basis of their mental states
[Chris Frith]
1. Copy the other person’s body language.
2. Make no more than two statements before you ask a question.
3. Ask three questions – but no more till you have done the next two things.
4. Find something from what you have just learnt to pay a subtle and relevant compliment about.
5. Find something in what you have found out to agree with.
6. Repeat steps 1-5 until the conversation takes on a life of its own.
They provoke motion without thinking
Anger Happiness Disgust Surprise Sadness Fear
task relationship
Simon Baron-Cohen
‘Push’‘Pull’
Task (less responsive)
Relationship (more responsive)
Expressive
Analytical
Driver
Amiable
‘Push’‘Pull’
Task (less responsive)
Relationship (more responsive)
Expressive
Analytical
Driver
Amiable
‘Push’‘Pull’
The Control Specialist
•Just do it!•Wants to know what and when•Likes to take charge
Task (less responsive)
Relationship (more responsive)
Expressive
Analytical
Driver
Amiable
‘Push’‘Pull’
Task (less responsive)
Relationship (more responsive)
Expressive
Analytical
Driver
Amiable
‘Push’‘Pull’
The Technique Specialist
•Do it right or not at all!•Wants to know how•Likes to plan
Task (less responsive)
Relationship (more responsive)
Expressive
Analytical
Driver
Amiable
‘Push’‘Pull’
Task (less responsive)
Relationship (more responsive)
Expressive
Analytical
Driver
Amiable
‘Push’‘Pull’
Task (less responsive)
Relationship (more responsive)
Expressive
Analytical
Driver
Amiable
‘Push’‘Pull’The Support Specialist
•We’re great!•Wants to know who and why•Likes cooperation and loyalty
Task (less responsive)
Relationship (more responsive)
Expressive
Analytical
Driver
Amiable
‘Push’‘Pull’
Task (less responsive)
Relationship (more responsive)
Expressive
Analytical
Driver
Amiable
‘Push’‘Pull’The Social Specialist
•Let’s all do it!•Wants to know who else•Likes energy and optimism
Task (less responsive)
Relationship (more responsive)
Expressive
Analytical
Driver
Amiable
‘Push’‘Pull’
Task (less responsive)
Relationship (more responsive)
Task (less responsive)
Relationship (more responsive)
‘Pull’ ‘Push’
Analytical Driver
Amiable Expressive
Finish Implement
Inspire
Market
InvestigateSupport
Liaise
Appraise
Adaptability!
Are they more assertive and fast-paced or less assertive and slower-paced?
Are they less responsive and task-oriented or more responsive and people-oriented?
What is your least preferred style?
What situations at work require you to use this style?
What could you do (or stop doing) to increase your competence in this style?
For more information:
Thank you!Alan Barker
Kairos Training Limited
www.kairostraining.co.uk