Complete 3 pages APA formatted article: Influencing Skills, Decision Making, Reasoning. Through an influential skill, someone will do some work on behalf of another and in a more intellectual and committed manner without applying any forceful authority. The use of influencing skill is usually aimed at making people say “Yes” and get what they want in the process. Therefore, the same skill is used to know a person as well as the situation that makes him formulate the “Yes” proposal. In other words, the technique is the sure way of knowing what a person wants, as well as eradicating the situations of forceful imposition of ideas to people. Additionally, it forms the basis of creating trust with clients in an attempt to influence them (McRae, 1998). The technique of influential skill encompasses entry, diagnosis, intervention, contracting, and transition. The most influential technique is the Entry: building trust with the client after building trust with the two. then other influential skills can easily be applied as the need may demand. However, the general application of the influential skills criterion is not good because the client has no freedom of mind since the interviewer’s aim is to influence and buy his trust as well as directing him towards his (interviewer’s) desired response (McRae, 1998).
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