Persuasion is an influence strategy used to lead those who formally not reporting to you (e.g. contractors' workers and colleagues) and even to whom we report. There are three other influence strategies namely negotiation, involvement, and direction. Manager or leader uses this according to situation and who to influence. These all are needed to lead under many different conditions.
I notice that these two girls, Sarinah and Aziah, successfully use the persuasion strategy to get what they want. How they do it? They just give reasons. Any relevant reason, sometimes funny reasons that made people laugh. But they usually get the objective.
In plantation management, persuasion is important in making people to MOVE because, nowadays, everyone wants to know why you want them to take a certain action. Giving reasons why an ORDER IS GIVEN has an important fringe benefit. when the situation changes and you are not around to give new instructions, the workers know what you are trying to do and alter their actions based on WHY you want the to do the move.
(The guy at the back is our Surveyor)
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