Selling Your Ideas VMA

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Selling Your Ideas to Key Stake Holders in Venue Management Today. Influence, persuade and convince others to change their thinking and move them to take action

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Endangered species

Endangered species

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Endangered species

Problemthe

How do you direct other’s thinking?

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How do you get them to follow your recommendations?

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How do you get themto say “smart idea”?

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Solutionthe

Change your thinking

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Fresh perspectives

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Selling Your Ideas

You

Your Company

Products & Services

to Stakeholders

Capacity?

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The experience

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Question: What is Persuasion?

Persuade =

• Accept

• Agree

• Change mind

• Move position

• Buy in

• Commitment

• Commitment to take action

to take to actionInfluenceConvince

Thinking Behaviour

Game changing

ideas

Find 3 Take Aways

Openness to change

Compliance vs commitment

Hoping for change

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Building TrustQuestion: How do you bring about change?

Question: How do build trust?

Answer: The “R-Factor”

Social media

Irrelevant

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Question: How do you become relevant?

Go where they live

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Childlike curiosity

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Diagnostic questions

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Why Ask Questions?

Facts

Feelings

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2.

3.

Opinions

Diagnostic questions

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“Seek first to understand, then to be understood”

- Stephen R Covey

Building Trust

Get them totally involved

3 - Level Questioning

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2.

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Question Area 1

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Question Area 2

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Question Area 3

See their thinking

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CREATE Insights

CR/EA/TE*:

CR – Current Reality

EA – Explore Alternative realities

TE – Tap into their Energy

*based on ideas from David Rock*based on ideas from the book Quiet Leadership by David Rock

It all happens here

The hard way

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Telling stories

Become a greatat telling stories

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Relevant and real stories

Stories build positive momentum

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Lead us into the unknown

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Show us howto get there

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Create a common vision

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Sense of control

The journey is neverstraight forward

Bring the experience to life

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Members privileges

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Transport them there

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Put them on the field

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Put them in the picture

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How do you create visual stories?

Sticky stories

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Sticky ideas

Creating Ideas that Stick

Persuasive (sticky) ideas:

Six Principles:

Sticky = understandable, memorable, and effective in changing thought or behaviour

• S - Simple

• U - Unexpected

• C - Concrete

• C - Credible

• E - Emotions

• S - Stories

*Based on ideas from the book: Made to Stick, by Dan and Chip Heath

Stories that are remarkableand memorable

Sticky fingers

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Sticky dilemma

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Creating Ideas that Stick

Get People to Act :

• Remember how SUCCESS helps people to:

– Pay attention Unexpected

– Understand and remember it Concrete

– Believe and agree Credible

– Care Emotional

– Be able to act on it Stories

*Based on ideas from the book: Made to Stick, by Dan and Chip Heath

Sense of urgency

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Sense of urgency

Everything is under control

Game changing

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An unforgettable experience

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Yes you can

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David R EdniePresident & CEO

SalesChannel EuropePh: +33 676 60 09 25Ph: +61 415 94 51 57

email: david@saleschannel-europe.comwebsite: www.saleschannel-europe.com