Question: What strategies have you found to work best when trying to sway someone to your point of view?

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Follow-up questions:

Please elaborate on your answer.

Question Details:

Question Type:

Skills:

Basic – Monitoring (Making observations of self and environment),Social – Persuasion,Social – Rapport Buiding/Relating and Connecting with others,Social – Social Perceptiveness

Abilities:

Cognitive – Category Flexibility (Mental Flexibility)

Other Factors:

Personality-Job Fit

Work Activity (Task):

Information Input – Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events,Interacting with Others – Selling or Influencing Others,Mental Processes – Judging the Value of Things, Services, or People

Work Style (Person-Job Fit):

Achievement/Effort (Action/Result Orientation),Adaptability/Flexibility,Analytical Thinking

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Question Difficulty

What to look for in an answer:

The candidate’s persuasive skills.
The candidate’s interpersonal skills.

Red Flags to Watch For:

The candidate’s poor persuasive skills.
The candidate’s poor interpersonal skills.

Sample Answer:

Before selling an idea to anyone, I find that building rapport is important. Listening attentively to what the other person is saying is one way of letting the other person know that you are really into the conversation. Of course excellent communication skills are vital.

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