Lecture: "Persuading other people"
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Target Audience: Researchers, students, and anybody who is interested in learning about persuasive speaking
Session format: Lecture, followed by Q&A
Speaker: Dr Jean-luc Doumont, Principiae; www.principiae.be
Short description:
Being able to persuade others is a critical skill for any career. We must convince an employer to hire us, persuade our boss to let us start a project, or get our coworkers to help us out. This lecture offers a rational approach to persuasion that should prove useful both at work and at home.
Learning objectives:
By the end of this session participants will be able to...
- use personal or organizational power;
- deploy tactics on four different planes;
- harness basic social influences.
No registration is required.
Everyone is welcome!
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About the speaker:
An engineer (Louvain) and PhD in applied physics (Stanford), Jean-luc Doumont is acclaimed worldwide for his no-nonsense approach, his highly applicable, often life-changing recommendations on a wide range of topics, and Trees, maps, and theorems, his book about “effective communication for rational minds.” For additional information, visit www.principiae.be.
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