Persuasive Communications Essentials

What makes one message more convincing or motivating than others? How can you most effectively persuade others and have your message heard?
In our fast-paced world, knowing the answers to these questions is crucial.
From simple email requests to complex presentations - we constantly engage in communication that has the power to invite others to respond favorably to the information we’re providing. Building persuasive communication tools and understanding what actually makes communication persuasive to begin with is key.
In this 90 minute training, you’ll learn:
• To structure and express your ideas in convincing and persuasive ways that will ensure that others care about what you're saying and expend their efforts to help your cause
• Tips, tricks, and tools for getting even the most resistant audience on board
• The most common pitfalls when it comes to persuasive communication, and how to avoid them
• How to tailor messages to specific audiences
• Key factors that impact persuasiveness

Nonprofit Austin reserves the right to postpone this learning opportunity if there

is inadequate registration.

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Lacy Alana is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, corporate trainer, multidisciplinary artist, and creator of The Yes And Brain framework.  As Lacy spent time in the clinical, educational, corporate, and expressive arts worlds over the last decade, she recognized that she was having great success blending facets from each discipline into the others.

When colleagues asked her to teach them tools to mimic her work, she developed the Yes And Brain framework to serve as a foundational framework for work in each setting.  Over the years, The Yes And Brain Model has continued to be refined, with specialized sub-models and training pathways for many different populations.

Lacy has a varied professional history, including working in the corporate world (with a business/advertising degree), providing corporate trainings and keynotes, running specialized circus and improv theatre programs for neurodivergent and at-risk youth, training educators/helping professionals/medical professionals, and working as a psychotherapist. Lacy provides one-of-a-kind trainings that fuse Interpersonal Neurobiology, therapeutic frameworks, business communication, and pedagogy from improvisational theatre and the circus arts.

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