Coaching practices for Leadership Persuasion
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’m at my best when I’m getting a room aligned and fired up
- When I want something to happen I reach for “because I’m the boss” far too quickly, and I get compliance that falls apart the second I leave the room
- I’m supposed to rally my team behind a directive I don’t actually understand or believe in myself, and they can feel the hollowness in how I deliver it
- I lead by directing and correcting and stepping in to fix things, and my team has gone quiet and passive, waiting to be told
- They’re busy and barely engaged
Practices that may help
- 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 - 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 - Believe — and make the why clear
You cannot lead people toward a mission you do not understand or believe in yourself.
Extreme Ownership, Made Practical - Leading from behind — the servant leader stance
Influence others more through example, listening, and restraint than through assertion and command.
The Tao Te Ching, Made Practical - Use peripheral cues when elaboration is low
Source credibility, social proof, and liking move low-engagement audiences where logic cannot.
Elaboration Likelihood Model, Made Practical - Match your message frame to the audience’s motivation type
Promotion-focused audiences respond to gains; prevention-focused ones respond to avoiding losses.
Elaboration Likelihood Model, Made Practical - Model the values you expect (idealized influence)
Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - See things from the other person’s point of view
Try honestly to see things from the other person’s angle before you argue your own.
How to Win Friends and Influence People, Made Practical - Inoculate against counter-persuasion
Expose people to weakened counter-arguments so they build resistance before a real attack arrives.
Elaboration Likelihood Model, Made Practical - 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
Related concerns
- How To Be More Persuasive
Try honestly to see things from the other person’s angle before you argue your own.
See things from the other person’s point of view
- Influencing Leadership
People strong in influencing sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization.
Lead from the influencing domain — take charge, speak up, make sure others are heard
- When Strengths Based Leadership Influencing Domain Practices
People strong in influencing sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization.
- Authentic Leadership
Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
Model the values you expect (idealized influence)
- Authority In Persuasion
People defer to credible expertise — and to its symbols — more than they realize.
Authority
- Cialdini S Principles Of Influence With My Team
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.
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