Activity: Selecting Strategies for Different Audiences
These questions should be remembered: How much resistance or support should I expect? And what strategies should I use for this kind of audience? CASE ONE
In a scheduled salary review meeting with your boss, you want to ask for a raise- pay. You know that your ratings for this review period have been good, but you also know that the money for raises is scarce this year. Two other people with roughly similar evaluations have been turned down for a raise-pay. Because of timing of your transfer into this department, you’ve missed one scheduled raise-pay already. Your manager and you have always been on a friendly basis.
1.What kind of audience will you face? (e.g. Unfriendly, Friendly, …show more content…
3.Based on the recommended strategies for such an audience, list at least three specific things you might say or do to influence your audience. (For example, what might you say to build common ground, or to enhance your credibility? What statistics, examples, or testimony might you use?)
Activity: Selecting Strategies for Different Audiences
These questions should be remembered: How much resistance or support should I expect? And what strategies should I use for this kind of audience? CASE 3
Now, think about a real situation you are going to face – at work or in some group or organization that you belong to – where you’d like to influence your audience to support (or stop hindering) your ideas or plans. Ask yourself the same questions:
1.What kind of audience will you face (e.g. Unfriendly, Friendly, Neutral, etc.)
2.What can you reasonably expect to accomplish in this situation?
3.Based on the recommended strategies for such an audience, list at least three specific things you might say or do to influence your audience. (For example, what might you say to build common ground, or to enhance your credibility? What statistics, examples, or testimony might you
These questions should be remembered: How much resistance or support should I expect? And what strategies should I use for this kind of audience? CASE ONE
In a scheduled salary review meeting with your boss, you want to ask for a raise- pay. You know that your ratings for this review period have been good, but you also know that the money for raises is scarce this year. Two other people with roughly similar evaluations have been turned down for a raise-pay. Because of timing of your transfer into this department, you’ve missed one scheduled raise-pay already. Your manager and you have always been on a friendly basis.
1.What kind of audience will you face? (e.g. Unfriendly, Friendly, …show more content…
3.Based on the recommended strategies for such an audience, list at least three specific things you might say or do to influence your audience. (For example, what might you say to build common ground, or to enhance your credibility? What statistics, examples, or testimony might you use?)
Activity: Selecting Strategies for Different Audiences
These questions should be remembered: How much resistance or support should I expect? And what strategies should I use for this kind of audience? CASE 3
Now, think about a real situation you are going to face – at work or in some group or organization that you belong to – where you’d like to influence your audience to support (or stop hindering) your ideas or plans. Ask yourself the same questions:
1.What kind of audience will you face (e.g. Unfriendly, Friendly, Neutral, etc.)
2.What can you reasonably expect to accomplish in this situation?
3.Based on the recommended strategies for such an audience, list at least three specific things you might say or do to influence your audience. (For example, what might you say to build common ground, or to enhance your credibility? What statistics, examples, or testimony might you