Project Info
Project Description
In this new workshop we will delve into the secrets used by hostage negotiators to establish a persons values and beliefs and their sub-conscious hooks and levers, to influence the decisions they make, and he’ll share them all with you.
Kevin will show you the art of persuasion, and the techniques to understand and establish hooks, levers, values, beliefs and commitment spirals. These skills combined will make sure you win better deals and more of them!
Kevin
Kevin is the former head of the Grater Manchester Police Hostage Negotiation Unit. He has trained UK Police officers, UK Special Forces, United Nations, and a number of international police forces. He has himself successfully graduated from the FBI’s Hostage Negotiators training program in Quantico Virginia, something very few Negotiators outside of the FBI have achieved. Through his role as a Hostage Negotiator and a police leader Kevin has become an expert in the skills of listening, influencing, and leadership.
- 1st Impressions
- Groundwork
- What is listening
- Active listening – SMILES
- Conversation Enablers
- Great questioning
- Understanding the true meaning of whats said
- Using communication to understand the clients value
- Influencing the deal
- Killer timing
- Position a course of action as desirable using your client’s values and beliefs, rather than your own.
- Get information without asking questions.
- Amplify the power of your language.
- Deal with challenging people.
- Dismiss beliefs that have previously undermined you.
- Interpret the true significance of what’s being said.
- Test your hypothesis without offending the other person.
- Use the social rules we all abide by in conversation to your advantage.
- Build and gain trust and rapport, individually and as a team.
- Understand and establish hooks, levers, values, beliefs and commitment spirals
- Use these to influence the key decision makers and close the deal
- Win more deals!
