How to Get People to Do Stuff: Master the art and science of persuasion and motivation

How to Get People to Do Stuff: Master the art and science of persuasion and motivation

by Susan Weinschenk
How to Get People to Do Stuff: Master the art and science of persuasion and motivation

How to Get People to Do Stuff: Master the art and science of persuasion and motivation

by Susan Weinschenk

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Overview

We all want people to do stuff. Whether you want your customers to buy from you, vendors to give you a good deal, your employees to take more initiative, or your spouse to make dinner—a large amount of everyday is about getting the people around you to do stuff. Instead of using your usual tactics that sometimes work and sometimes don't, what if you could harness the power of psychology and brain science to motivate people to do the stuff you want them to do - even getting people to  want to do the stuff you want them to do.
 
In this book you’ll learn the 7 drives that motivate people: The Desire For Mastery, The Need To Belong, The Power of Stories, Carrots and Sticks, Instincts,  Habits, and Tricks Of The Mind. For each of the 7 drives behavioral psychologist Dr. Susan Weinschenk describes the research behind each drive, and then offers specific strategies to use. Here’s just a few things you will learn:
  • The more choices people have the more regret they feel about the choice they pick. If you want people to feel less regret then offer them fewer choices.
  • If you are going to use a reward, give the reward continuously at first, and then switch to giving a reward only sometimes.
  • If you want people to act independently, then make a reference to money, BUT if you want people to work with others or help others, then make sure you DON’T refer to money.
  • If you want people to remember something, make sure it is at the beginning or end of your book, presentation, or meeting. Things in the middle are more easily forgotten.
  • If you are using feedback to increase the desire for mastery keep the feedback objective, and don’t include praise.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780133122350
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 03/07/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 216
Sales rank: 1,044,428
File size: 2 MB

Table of Contents

1) The power of stories 2) How to use examples 3) Getting people into the flow state 4) How to work with someone's habits, not against them 5) Why seeing progress toward a goal is motivating 6) When rewards work and when they don't 7) How to get people to STOP doing something 8) How chemicals in the brain that get people to do stuff 9) Using surprise and unpredictability to motivate 10) How the desire for mastery is motivating 11) How the drive to be autonomous is motivating 12) People want to look smart to others 13) How to get around people's natural laziness 14) Harnessing the dislike of boredom 15) When competition is not motivating 16) Using the desire to connect and be social to motivate 17) People's built in tendency to imitate 18) Using emotions to motivate 19) When making something hard makes it more desirable 20) When anticipation is more important than reward 21) How most goals and desires are unconscious 22) The more difficult something is to achieve the more people like it 23) The power of anticipating 24) Unconscious decision-making 25) Why the brain wants to control the situation 26) How having an experience can be more motivating than having a possession 27) When people are swayed by a dominant personality 28) When and why people look at what other people are doing to decide what they should do 29) How the "persona" that a person has of themselves influences their behavior 30) How to get people to change long held beliefs and actions
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