Instant Influence How to Get Anyone to Do Anything--Fast [Hardcover]

If you want to motivate your employees to be more productive, convince your customers to use more of your products and services, encourage a loved one to engage in healthier habits, or inspire any change in yourself, renowned psychologist Dr. Michael Pantalon can show you how to achieve Instant Influence in six simple steps. Drawing on three decades of research, Dr. Pantalon's easy-to-learn method can create changes both great and small in 7 minutes or less. This scientifically tested method succeeds in every area of work and life by helping people tap into their deeply personal reasons for wanting to change and finding a spark of yes within an answer that sounds like no. Michael V. Pantalon, Ph.D.is a motivational coach, consultant, therapist, and award-winning faculty member at Yale University School of Medicine. He has published numerous articles in publications such as theNew England Journal of Medicineand theJournal of the American Medical Association, among others, and has presented his work at national and international conferences. Dr. Pantalon lives in Hamden, Connecticut, with his wife,Marianne, and their sons. If you are a business leader, a coach, a teacher, or a parent, you influence others every day. How do you move forward when you run into resistance? Wouldn't it be great if you could help someone come up with his or her own reasons to change? Michael Pantalon's amazingly simple six-question technique can be quickly applied by anyone to positively motivate the behavior of others.Instant Influenceis a fabulous concept and a fabulous book. Ken Blanchard, coauthor ofThe One Minute Manager^?andLead with LUV INSTANT INFLUENCE will equip you with an array of simple, yet powerful, techniques to persuade others and move them to action. And as you learn, you'll gain fresh insights into the human condition itself. This is the rare book that is both lS: