Posted on 03/09/2009 8:39:34 PM PDT by FocusNexus
Whatever your job title, the ability to make others listen to you, trust you, and act on what you say is critical to your success. Take this quiz, adapted for Fortune by Persuasion IQ author Kurt Mortensen, to see how well you influence others. For the full version, go to www.persuasioniq.com.
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I was surprised, some of the time the answer I thought was the obvious one wasn't.
Anyone got a perfect score?
One interviewer a few years ago said that when he spoke to me on the phone it was as if I were a different person from the one who submitted the excellent results of his written screening test, effectively accusing me of cheating. He wanted a BS'er, not a results-producer.
20/60. It’s a good thing I’m not in sales.
You should be a geek like me, in engineering or the sciences.
“Any one got a perfect score?
Yeah, I did. They said I should be King for a day.
Ping to read later
Another 20/60 here- my family would starve if I was in sales.
Unfortunately many times perception is more important than reality and one does need to sell oneself in any job, to various degrees.
I consider myself reasonably good at persuasion, but I did very poorly on this test — I guess one needs to learn the little “tricks”. Some of us want people to make decision based on reality, which is not the way the world seems to work.
A glaring example is the election of Obama.
Wanna buy a bridge? Oh, never mind.
“They said I should be King for a day.”
Or President... run against Obama in 2012!
Hmmm... according to them I’m not persuasive. How come I’ve got more business than I can handle?
They make some good points, but in my experience, some of the stuff is somewhere between “it depends on your setting/market/location/etc.” and utter nonsense.
I would like to read these studies they speak of.
If you ace this test you should be fitted for the cheesiest plaid jacket and start selling edsels.
I know and I resent it. It is reality, though, as you say. This is not the WWII generation, where you and I probably would have been quite at home.
ping
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I’m pretty sure I’m not very persuasive, but I might be wrong.....
10 out of 60.
No wonder I am a programmer and like to build things. I couldn’t sell sell water to a man dying of thirst.
Now I know why I am an Aerospace Engineer.
I got one right and that was a lucky guess. No wonder I couldn’t sell a log to a drowning man.
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