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Persuasion, Motivation & Inspiration
Assess your communications abilities to persuade, motivate and inspire

How persuasive, inspirational and motivational are you? Your personal communications techniques and style are crucial factors in your efforts to persuade and motivate others. Some people instinctively possess these capabilities, although most don't. You can do a lot to improve your effectiveness as a leader and motivator by understanding and using some simple communications techniques and principles, which are assessed and illustrated in this quick simple quiz.

 

 

 

1: To convince others that you are credible and trustworthy do you....
Cite statistics
Share an anecdote
Use a combination of statistics and anecdote
2: Lee Iacocca has been named the sales-person of the century. Which of these sentences belongs to the persuasion-meister....
"It is imperative for us to unite, to grit our teeth, to aspire to new heights."
"For in the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
"It's a leader's job to bring the bad news, to get people to believe things they don't want to believe, and then to go out and do things they don't want to do."
3: A persuasive leader.....
Listens as much as he or she talks
Tells it like it is
Enjoys the use of power
4: people who are effective persuaders....
Use little words
Rely on current buzzwords
Teach their followers via very long words
5: Parallelism (deliberate repetition of words or phrases)...
Is annoying to listeners/readers
Creates a monotonous impression
Is an effective persuasion-tool
6: 'Chiasmus' refers to...
A style of footnoting references
An expression that uses a word(s) from the first half of the sentence in a new way, in the second half of the same sentence
A literary device used by scholars
7: Definitions...
Should be provided from a reputable source
Sound patronizing
Are most effective when newly coined
8: An expression such as 'our children are our future'...
Has lost its effectiveness due to overuse
Appeals to a broad spectrum of listeners/readers
Reminds us of purpose
9: 'The real challenge for business people is to get communication out of information' according to..
President George W Bush
Management expert Peter Drucker
Futurist Alvin Toffler
10: Metaphors...
According to Aristotle, when understood, represent the beginning of genius
According to management-guru Warren Bennis, help effect change
According to Jose Ortega y Gasset, philosopher and Spanish Civil War revolutionary, are the most fertile power on earth

 

 

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