We've all got someone in our world who we need to bring around to our way of thinking.

A boss, a client, a stakeholder, someone with more authority than us whose mind we need to change.

Today, here are five strategies that will actually help you do that.

Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor.

I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, where we help

leaders work better by design to reimagine how work gets done so that results and well-being

rise together. If this sounds like a needed refresh, I'd love to come speak at your next event or

off-site. Reach out today at leadabovenoise.com slash connect.

So a fun fact about me, I'm not a dog person. Like much to my kids dismay, they spent their

younger years begging, pleading, but to no avail. My cold, cold heart stayed strong. Well, until that time when they were eight and

ten, and somehow had a revelation, it suddenly occurred to them that they'd been going about this all

wrong. They had been harping on what they wanted, but they decided to try focusing on what I wanted.

So these rascals sat me down with an actual PowerPoint presentation.

Can't make this up.

And they talked me through their research, which they actually did.

Like about how having a dog would require them to collaborate on her care,

to take shared responsibility for another living thing, to get daily exercise,

as they would totally walk her. A spoiler, they have never walked her. But yes, you guessed the

ending. I got bamboozled and they got Ruthie Rose. I think about that presentation a lot

in my coaching work, because because the instinct when we're trying

to change someone's mind, especially someone more senior, is to come in armed with data

and logic and the strongest possible version of our argument. But then we end up kind of baffled

...