LESSON 4
The Surprising Way To Spontaneously Become More Authoritative & Credible
So You Can Have More Influence AND Authority
In this fourth and last lesson, I’m going to leave you with some questions to contemplate and an important audio message from Michael.
Let’s start with the questions…
- When you speak do people stop and listen to your ideas?
- When you talk does your boss’s boss take notes?
- When colleagues, superiors or clients face tough problems – do you get the call?
If you answer no, you likely face headwinds in your career right now.
You likely aren’t getting the reward, recognition and status you deserve.
In essence you likely have an influence problem.
Throughout this 4-part series we’ve looked at influence from different angles.
We’ve started in a 1960’s smoke filled room, as you watched Don Draper exquisitely pitch to Kodak’s executives their brand new ‘Time Machine’ technology.
You felt the impact of how the right words, in the right sequence can transform the ordinary in to the extraordinary and make a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. [Lesson 1]
In Lesson 2, you discovered the unexpected connection between espionage and NLP. How just like spies, elite business NLP practitioners don’t draw attention to their methods and their NLP doesn’t look or sound like everyone else’s.
You understood why they don’t focus on gadgets and techniques – but instead leverage and combine powerful NLP principles at precisely the right moment to achieve the improbable and accomplish the seeming impossible. This form of NLP is especially useful when you need to influence many different people, with very different needs.
In Lesson 3 we dropped in on a high stakes kidnap negotiation between the FBI’s top kidnapping negotiator and Harvard’s top negotiation professor. It was a battle of smarts – and the FBI guy easily won…
You learned the most important tool you have at your disposal is AWARENESS.You learned about the 3 patterns in every communication you should pay attention to and in what order– that help you see and use essential information that’s present in every communication with anyone.
When your business NLP skills are this good – questions about influence and authority disappear. Because when you talk, people listen. And when they talk you really hear - far beyond the surface of what they say.
You process things in a way that is UNIQUE among your colleagues, clients, competitors and peers.
Suddenly your influence and respect exceed that normally associated with your job title or position.
Suddenly you find your boss’s boss takes notes when you talk.
People at meetings stop and listen when you speak - and take different actions. Make better decisions. And thank you for it.
When you know how NLP is REALLY used in business (not as taught in books or technique focused course) but the real principles and strategies Michael teaches in Business Breakthrough - you discover it’s far easier to use with teams, colleagues and clients than you’ve ever noticed.
But that’s not the only benefit…
Have a listen to what Michael has to say:
It’s so important, I’ve transcribed this point below:
“One of the things that people will typically tell me, having been through the Business Practitioner program, is that they find themselves spontaneously becoming more authoritative and more credible... and this has to do with the fact that rather than teaching people manipulation tricks, what I teach them how to do, is to structure communication in such a way that the specific people in front of them don't say "no", before they listened to what you had to say.
And that comes from a very special kind of thinking, and a very special kind of strategy.
.. When you're speaking with and especially when you want to become more persuasive to another person, your frame of reference has to shift quite profoundly.
You must get off of your own self-righteous, "totally objective, God given position" in order to be able to figure out what's going on in somebody else's world that would make what you have to say, not just relevant but necessary.
Here's another thing for people who are interested in persuasion and manipulation:
I only recommend that you tell the truth.
100% of everything you say in order to persuade someone should be true. I know that there are some who have written and speak about NLP and say "anything goes". I'm sorry. That's their opinion and I think it says more about them than it does about NLP. The truth is far more persuasive than any lie that you could make up.
So in becoming a practitioner, when you study with me, you will learn only how to work with the truth.”
-- Michael Breen
When you apply the ideas shared in this series, you’ll find that you can’t help but become far more influential and command more authority – even if right now you have none where you work.
This is just the beginning… not the end. I’ve enjoyed sharing these ideas with you. Starting tomorrow, I’ll be opening up a limited window for you to join Business Breakthrough, where Michael teaches you the uncommon principles, tools, and techniques to excel with NLP in business.
Normally, we charge $1,997 for the entire course.
Starting tomorrow, for a very limited time, you can get the entire course at 50% off the regular price!
With over 5,000 views on the lesson videos we’ve released, I sure we’ll easily fill our intake. With 36 hours of advanced business NLP training not available anywhere else - you won’t want to miss it.
Keep an eye on your inbox tomorrow.
To your success,
Tom
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