SamTastic Weekly Tip: 11/2/26 - Try Three Ways To Be More Persuasive
This week’s Tip: Try three ways to be more persuasive.
Leadership is the art of taking a person or group to a destination they might not reach on their own. Persuasion is a skill effective school leaders use to do this daily. Can you improve your persuasion skills? Communications guru Jefferson Fisher thinks you can by using three simple strategies:
#1. Make them first
Let the person you want to persuade be the first to hear something, be told something, or share something with.
It can be as easy as “I just had a thought that I wanted to run by you first.” People love to be first. It makes them more attentive and more likely to do what you ask.
#2. Anchor with positivity
Begin your sentence with “Because I know…” and tag a positive quality about them. For example: “Because I know I can count on you” or “Because I know you to be a dependable person.” What you’re doing is anchoring your message to a positive quality, making them much more likely to follow through.
#3. Use your voice
You might think you’ve written the perfect email or the perfect text, but nothing will replace the human connection of hearing your voice.
So call them—or even better—meet them face to face. You will always be more persuasive when you use your voice.
Last week’s SamTastic Weekly Tip focused on the problem of bypassing the necessary work of learning by using tech, screens and AI. Lucas Held, an independent strategic communications consultant and former Vice President of Communications at the Wallace Foundation, shared this video clip, an interview with author, playwright, and academic Katherine Rundell. She is best known for her bestselling children's fantasy novels and literary scholarship. Her thoughtful and poetic perspective about AI and learning is worth considering:
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· Saturday night we will be going to the Bellagio resort to see the top show in Las Vegas: “O”, by Cirque du Soliel
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