The Daily Mail featured this article on Michelle Bowden’s now best selling book, How to Persuade. It’s packed with tips on how to make anyone like you. Enjoy!
A communications coach has revealed her go-to tricks for improving your ‘likability’ and charisma – and says there a variety of seemingly unimportant things such as limiting jerky movements having clean fingernails, wearing flattering clothing and projecting ‘warmth’ are key to success.
Michelle Bowden, a certified speaking professional, has delivered her Persuasive Presentation Skills Masterclass for more than 13,000 people and works with the who’s who of international business to help them win multi-million-dollar bids and projects.
Her best selling, internationally published book called, How to Persuade equips readers with the skills, tips and actions you need to get exactly what you want and improve your charisma.
‘It’s a fact that likeable people are the ones who get furthest in life. Even if you’re not the smartest or most experienced, if you are the most likeable, you’ll often be the most persuasive in the moment,’ Michelle says.
In contrast, unlikeable people are a turn-off. They destroy the joy and can make people feel uncomfortable, judged and fearful.
The four most unlikeable behaviours in others were unsatisfactory grooming, killing the fun, and ignoring or talking over others.
What should you do instead?
What should you do instead?
1. Be attractive
Whether you like this fact or not, attractive people get more breaks in life than their ‘plain’ counterparts. Business psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic reported in 2019 that people who don’t fit a society’s dominant aesthetic criteria simply don’t get the same breaks in life as those who do. And psychologist and researcher at Harvard University Nancy L Etcoff and her colleagues published a 2011 study that found that groomed woman who were wearing makeup were seen as more attractive, competent, likeable and trustworthy than women who presented with a bare face. Pretty convincing!
The good news is that ‘attractiveness’ doesn’t really relate to your ‘natural’ beauty. Whatever you look like, you can certainly make the most of your qualities and features.
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Phase 1 – compete the Persuasion Smart Profile® online to assess your current persuasive strengths and weaknesses at work & receive your very own comprehensive, personalised, 9-page report.
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©2024 MICHELLE BOWDEN is an authority on persuasive presenting in business. She’s run her Persuasive Presentation Skills Masterclass over 1000 times for more than 13,000 people over the past 25 years and her name is a synonym for ‘presentation skills’ in Australia.
Michelle is a multi-million-dollar pitch coach to her client list that reads like a who’s who of international business: banking and finance, IT, pharmaceutical, retail, telecommunications plus many more. Michelle is the creator of the Persuasion Smart Profile®, a world-first psychological assessment tool that reports on your persuasive strengths and weaknesses at work, the best-selling internationally published author of How to Present: the ultimate guide to presenting live and online (Wiley) and How to Persuade: the skills you need to get what you want (Wiley).