How to persuade someone to do something for you 14 Articles

by Timothy Ijala

I believe pursuading someone to do something for you has to take into consideration a number of factors. For example what relationship exists between you and this person? Is it parent, child, friend,workmate or colleague...read more

by Avon Esor

After countless hours on the phone with banks, insurance companies and the cable company, I have come to realize and agree with one thing, "Stay calm and most of the time you will get what you want". My last flirt with ...read more

by Nicole Burrow

The Honey Do List: How to Use the Idea of a Fake Project to Get the Real One Completed Since we marry men for love and stay with them because they provide us children and physical strength it is essential to learn the k...read more

by Christine G.

Dear Dr. Ursa, Today is my 65th birthday. After 60 years of looking after other people, bailing out other people, and cleaning up after other people, I am tired. My doctor says that if I don't learn to delegate, I wi...read more

by Crystal Achey

The New Golden Rule Improve Persuasiveness By Learning To Recognize The Four Main Personality Types... Most of us are familiar with the proverbial Golden Rule about treating others as we would like to be treated. So ...read more

by Ethel Smith

What is it they say about 'what goes around comes around'?. I guess that this is very true in the favour stakes. After all if you want someone to do something for you, and you are usually the most selfish and self-centred ...read more

by Lisa Beach

How to manage it successfully depends on who you are asking, and what sort of relationship you have with the person being asked. For example, you wouldn't try to persuade your boss to go pick up your daughter from ballet c...read more

by ellemorena

We all have so many things to do and these things never get done. So we ask for help. These "things" to be done comes in categories. Urgent and important things and repetitive or one off menial things. We also have a varie...read more

by Heidi Marie Fleetfoot

If you need to persuade someone to do something for you then it helps if you are in the position where they already owe you a favor. It will help you to put yourself in that position if you are not already there by doing s...read more

by Eric Mcnally

It is a necessity in the world we live in to be able to get other people to do what you want. Whether it is getting your son to take out the trash, your boss to give you that day off, or your boyfriend to buy you those ado...read more

by Sweetsmile

Did you ever need some one to help you? Have you succeeded in persuading him or her to do it for you? Was it successful? If not, you need to When we try to persuade the others to do something for us, we need to be poli...read more

by Bethany Carr

You want-no, you need-a particular person to do a particular thing for you. But how do you make that happen? First of all, you'd better hope that you've been kind and giving to this person in the past. My parents taught...read more

by Nadia Van Wyk

It is true that one can never ever do everything for him/herself on his own without asking a second person's help. The problem is on how to approach somebody for help. To start with, you will definitely have to be as fr...read more

by Deneen Briddell

How to persuade someone to do something for you..... Sometimes you may want someone to do things for you, but you may not know how to ask directly. I am a very indirect person, I really don't like to ask people fo...read more