How to Persuade Like a Leader
Negotiate Anything
American Negotiation Institute
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You start with the leadership, and you can really, you can get there very quickly by simply adopting the servant leader mentality. |
| 0:06.5 | In our world, when we're talking about growth and working with people in terms of persuading them to work with you, |
| 0:12.9 | you can easily live or walk the path of a servant leader by focusing on their goals. |
| 0:19.5 | And that's what you serve. |
| 0:22.7 | You end up serving your client's goals, but you lead them down your path. So the idea as a salesperson is that, or as a CEO of a |
| 0:28.7 | company, you understand the path to success. You're simply looking for people who are willing to pay |
| 0:34.1 | you to walk that path. And the way you do that is you identify folks that |
| 0:38.1 | they're looking to achieve, that you know your path is suited to deliver. So what we're doing |
| 0:45.2 | is when we're working with salespeople, we're helping them think about becoming expert in their |
| 0:49.1 | path, thinking about them changing their perspective, their self-view from being a salesperson in this |
| 0:56.7 | zero-sum game, either I win or I lose, to helping them think of themselves as a leader. |
| 1:02.9 | My job is now to take control of this conversation and help you walk through the buying cycle, |
| 1:08.9 | that decision cycle, because I know I can get you there. |
| 1:12.6 | And instead of me pitching you on my product or service, I'm going to spend most of my time understanding your goals, |
| 1:18.5 | the impact of success or failure, the impact of doing nothing, what's been blocking you from getting there, |
| 1:23.9 | and then helping you understand my solution in the context of those three |
| 1:28.6 | questions, the answers of those three questions. And by doing so, I become less focused on me |
| 1:33.7 | as a salesperson and much more focused on my client. They have a unique experience because |
| 1:38.9 | very few other salespeople operate this way. You don't sound like a salesperson. And instead of |
| 1:43.9 | you selling, it's more like them buying. So it's nice about this way. You don't sound like a salesperson. And instead of you selling, |
| 1:45.1 | it's more like them buying. So it's nice about this approach is as a servant leader, if somebody |
| 1:51.4 | has a goal that I can deliver and they have an impact that creates enough value, now I can |
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