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  • When I’m trying to bring someone around, they treat me as an outsider pushing my own agenda
  • I’m at my best when I’m getting a room aligned and fired up
  • When I genuinely don’t know the right move, I find myself just doing whatever people like me seem to be doing
  • I catch myself going along with someone just because they had the title or the confident expert tone, and later realize I never checked whether they actually knew what they were talking about
  • I notice I say yes far more easily to people I happen to like, and I want to understand that pull

Practices that may help

  1. Cialdini’s Principles of Influence
    Robert Cialdini identified six near-universal levers of persuasion — reciprocity, commitment and consistency, social proof, authority, liking, and scarcity — that bias people toward saying yes. They’re drawn from decades of social-psychology research and field studies; the principles are well established even though individual effect sizes vary by context.
  2. Activate unity — shared identity before the message
    Establish genuine shared identity with your audience before presenting your position.
    Pre-Suasion, Made Practical
  3. Lead from the influencing domain — take charge, speak up, make sure others are heard
    People strong in influencing sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization.
    Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
  4. Social proof
    People look to what similar others are doing to decide what’s correct, especially under uncertainty.
    Cialdini’s Principles of Influence
  5. Authority
    People defer to credible expertise — and to its symbols — more than they realize.
    Cialdini’s Principles of Influence
  6. Liking
    We say yes to people we like — and similarity, compliments, and cooperation grow liking.
    Cialdini’s Principles of Influence
  7. Model the values you expect (idealized influence)
    Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
    Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
  8. Invite clients or reports to contribute insight to your approach
    Asking someone you lead for their input increases their investment in the outcome.
    The Ben Franklin Effect, Made Practical
  9. Commitment and consistency
    Get a small, voluntary commitment first; people then act to stay consistent with it.
    Cialdini’s Principles of Influence
  10. Influence through persuasion, not positional power
    Build consensus and convince rather than command — authority is the last resort, not the first.
    Servant Leadership, Made Practical

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