How to Get Your Way – Learning to Speak with Influence
Getting your way. Do you know how to persuade, how to speak with influence, to get your way?
Leadership. Are you not only smart and strategic but also “be a leader?” Do you speak influentially to your team and your advisors and investors?
This episode of the DishyMix podcast with Bert Decker is dedicated to my mother, Lauren, who told me at age 35 that I needed to conquer my fear of public speaking to move forward in my career. I was terrified to stand up in front of people! That push led me to Decker Communications where I was “Deckerized” and now my phone rings with speak ops and I love to speak in public.
If public speaking isn’t one of the most energizing things you do, read on. Or if you are good, here’s a method to get even better…
Much to my excitement, I found the real Bert Decker on Twitter recently and invited him to come on DishyMix to change your life, as he’s so purposefully changed mine with his sage advice on how to be an influential speaker.
Bert is the author of You’ve Got to Be Believed to Be Heard, Updated Edition: The Complete Book of Speaking . . . in Business and in Life!
I have two copies to give to fans – just post your desire on the DishyMix Fan Club.
Listen to this episode to learn how to appeal to what Bert calls “the first brain,” which is our Limbic System – that part of our brain that is unconscious and emotional. We buy on emotion and justify with rationale. If you want people to “buy” you, you must appeal to them on an emotional level. Bert gives us the methods to connect with our audience.
Next you’ll learn Bert’s system. It’s called The Decker Grid. I have used this system to organize my thoughts for the last 10 years and it’s helped me create speeches, put together sales pitches, write blog posts, write stories and articles and prepare for my DishyMix interviews.
Here’s a photo of my modified grid for my interview with Bert: (yes, I DO eat my own dog food)
Listen now to change the way you are influencing everyone in your life. What a great way to start the New Year — with a new YOU!
Bert Decker on The First Brain, Transforming Your Personal Impact and The Decker Grid
