Stephen McGarvey – Key Strategies from Successful Influencers

SEASON: 2 EPISODE: 24Episode Overview:Whether you are leading a team, negotiating a contract, looking to optimize sales and marketing performance, or simply attempting to better frame conversations in every day life, persuasion and influence expert, Stephen McGarvey, reveals the proven techniques that the world’s most effective leaders use to motivate themselves and others to excel professionally and personally. Join me now for my conversation with Stephen McGarvey.Guest Bio: Stephen McGarvey is a world-leading authority on unconscious communication, persuasion, and influence. He assists corporations and audiences around the world in solving difficult communications problems by guiding them on an engaging, fast-paced, fascinating journey inside the unconscious mind.For more than 20 years, Stephen has helped individuals better understand motivation, persuasion, and influence with a focus on achieving results by leveraging unconscious communication in a range of personal and business contexts. He is passionate about creating practical, ethical resources that are easy to learn and apply, and which produce extraordinary and sustainable results.Stephen is dedicated to using his expertise to coach and assist others in their thinking and behaviors to better understand the science and art of unconscious persuasion and influence. Stephen employs the latest modalities of neuroscience, and behavioral psychology to empower those in the areas of sales, marketing and corporate leadership through enhanced communication between various levels of management.Apart from his professional engagements, Stephen and his wife, Natalie, reside in Toronto, Canada where they enjoy entertaining friends, traveling, reading and spending time outdoors.Resource Links:Website: http://solutionsinmind.com/Product Link: http://solutionsinmind.com/ignite-a-shift/<br/>Insight Gold Timestamps:04:41 The key to persuasion06:23 It's more about what's the intention behind how you're using the skills06:54 The think, feel, and do process for persuasion08:06 Perfect definition for anxiety09:24 How do we increase someone's confidence?11:19 We dedicated a chapter to it in the book called The Paradox of Why13:07 Rapport versus relationship building16:19 What does it take to build rapport quickly?17:37 A study that was done with lawyers 18:03 We tend to judge books by their cover19:35 The power of certain words22:04 The conscious and the unconscious mind25:07 Influence can be done with and without integrity27:43 When you pause and ask a strategic question at the right moment in time….28:55 Questions are really the answer30:55 Having well-crafted, strategic questions 32:43 The million dollar question36:50 Stories versus facts, and the magic of a good storyConnect Socially:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/st....ephenmcgarvey/Facebo https://www.facebook.com/stephenmcgarveyoneTwitter: https://twitter.com/SolutionsinmindPodcast: http://solutionsinmind.com/podcast/Email: stephen@solutionsinmind.comSponsors: Rainmaker Digital Solutions: https://www.ra