Facebook: Right Ways and Wrong Ways to Motivate
/0 Comments/by Brian Ahearn, CMCT®There’s a right way and a wrong way to go about motivating people to take action. I thought I’d write about this subject because it’s relevant based on some Facebook messages I’ve seen several times in recent months. If you’re on Facebook you might have seen the following message or some variation of it: “In […]
Making Your But More Powerful
/0 Comments/by Brian Ahearn, CMCT®This week I had an opportunity to write a guest post for Mike Figliuolo, Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a leadership development and training firm based in Columbus, Ohio. Mike regularly writes for the thoughtLEADERS blog and has written guest posts for Influence PEOPLE so I’m always happy to return the favor. Below is […]
Dale Carnegie and Sun Tzu on Avoiding Arguments
/4 Comments/by Brian Ahearn, CMCT®We’ve made some really good headway looking at tips from Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. In case you’re a newer reader, below you’ll see what we’ve covered so far. Click on any tip and you’ll be taken to the Influence PEOPLE article for that piece of timeless advice from Dale Carnegie. […]
Make the Other Person Feel Important
/5 Comments/by Brian Ahearn, CMCT®We’ve been making our way through Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People as a way for you to become a more influential and persuasive person. The week we come to his last tip in the section of the book titled “Six Ways to Make People Like You.” The advice we’ll explore is, […]
Interview with Dr. Cialdini’s Organization INFLUENCE AT WORK
/0 Comments/by Brian Ahearn, CMCT®I had the good fortune of recently being interviewed by Dr. Robert Cialdini’s organization, INFLUENCE AT WORK. Below is the lead in to the interview from his blog, Inside Influence Report. INFLUENCE AT WORK has over 25 CMCT’s worldwide. These CMCT’s are the only trainers endorsed by Dr. Robert Cialdini and allowed to facilitate the […]




