background preloader

Influence

Facebook Twitter

6 hostage negotiation techniques that will get you what you want. How does hostage negotiation get people to change their minds? The Behavioral Change Stairway Model was developed by the FBI’s hostage negotiation unit, and it shows the 5 steps to getting someone else to see your point of view and change what they’re doing. It’s not something that only works with barricaded criminals wielding assault rifles — it applies to most any form of disagreement.

There are five steps: Active Listening: Listen to their side and make them aware you’re listening.Empathy: You get an understanding of where they’re coming from and how they feel.Rapport: Empathy is what you feel. Rapport is when they feel it back. The problem is, you’re probably screwing it up. What you’re doing wrong In all likelihood you usually skip the first three steps. And that never works. Saying “Here’s why I’m right and you’re wrong” might be effective if people were fundamentally rational. But they’re not. From my interview with former head of FBI international hostage negotiation, Chris Voss: 1. 2.

Influence : science and practice. Closing. "Closing" is distinguished from ordinary practices such as explaining a product's benefits or justifying an expense. It is reserved for more artful means of persuasion, which some compare with confidence tricks. For example, a salesman might mention that his product is popular with a person's neighbours, knowing that people tend to follow perceived trends. This is known as the Jones Theory. In automobile dealerships, a "closer" is often a senior salesman experienced in closing difficult deals. Closing a sale can also be defined as "asking for the sale" or asking the customer to buy. When defined this way the act of closing a sale is independent of the customer's answer.

Since fear of rejection is one of the biggest impediments to sales success for many people in sales functions they don't actually ask for the business. All of the "closing" techniques below are different ways to ask for the business. The Apology close, in which the salesperson apologizes for not yet closing the sale. Dissonance cognitive. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. En psychologie sociale, la dissonance cognitive est la simultanéité de cognitions qui entraînent un inconfort mental en raison de leur caractère inconciliable ; ou l'expérience d'une contradiction entre une cognition et une action.

Dans sa théorie de la dissonance cognitive, Leon Festinger étudie les stratégies de réduction de la tension psychologique induite et de maintien de leur cohérence personnelle, y compris des stratégies d'évitement des circonstances identifiées comme source de dissonance. Relations entre les cognitions[modifier | modifier le code] Trois sortes de relations sont possibles entre deux cognitions ou entre une cognition et un comportement [1]: Ampleur de la dissonance[modifier | modifier le code] L'ampleur de la dissonance cognitive ou de la tension subie dépend de deux facteurs : L'effort pour réduire la dissonance est proportionnel à son ampleur[1]. Diminution de la dissonance[modifier | modifier le code] Science Of Persuasion. Apollo Robbins on Persuasion.