Examples Of Rational Persuasion

Rational persuasion is the most effective and most commonly applied influence tactic. It is the use of facts, data, and logical argument to convince and influence another person. The behavior that could be involved in this case is previous research of the information and being able to present it clearly and with confidence. Thursday I had an appointment with Joe Battaline from the Smith Career Center in order to get the paperwork to register and approval to create my own internship. During the meeting I explained to him that my current unofficial internship at a small business martial arts school should count based on the fact that I am starting to deal with more office work and learning more about what it is like to run an entrepreneurship. I explained that I work a minimum of 8 and a half hours a week, I handle selling merchandise, I do consultation and finalize contacts for new students to sign. I also brought up that owning a martial arts school is what I want to do in the future and that this internship is an eye-opening experience into the actual field that I wanting to eventually enter after Bradley. I feel
Battaline was very interested in my position at my martial arts school and committed to providing me the required paperwork needed to register and agreed to help me with anything I needed to make it happen. My mother on the other hand was only really influenced enough to be compliant of my request. I truly felt that the use of rational persuasion was much more effective and easier to implement when trying to influence someone. During this assignment I did realize that usually I am more skilled with the use of rational persuasion than any of the others. I am a very good at presenting the facts in a way that is more influential than most of the other tactics we studied in class. I also learned that attempting to influence using inspiration, it might be taken the wrong way and not steer towards the type of emotion that you are trying to appeal