Animal Advocacy Effective information delivery: Asking NOT telling ...

[Clueless Git]

Was just reading Alice-Bee's topic on "How to answer 'those' questions".

A good topic for listing the reasoned factual answers to 'those' questions, I was thinking. So I decided not to risk derailing it with this.

Thing on my mind being that having the answers, the information, we need is one thing. Delivering that information effectively though .... a different kettle of biscuits altogether.

Spent a fair bit of time this morning looking for a short and simple presentation on the theme of effective information delivery.

It's a sales presentation, unsurprisingly, as the sales industry is the single most prolific dessiminator of skills on how to deliver information effectively that exists on this planet.

Just as a 'btw' ...

One of the definitions of selling is "To cause to be accepted; advocate successfully:"

It's in the context of "advocate succesfully" that I think technique(s) for delivering the information we have effectively should be of interest to everybody here.

 

[beancounter]

I'm at work and can't see the attached video, but if I get the point from your post, then I agree with your position, as it's similar to what I've been saying for years. "You attract more flies with honey than with vinegar".

Often veg*ns approach questions from omnis with arrogance, righteous indignation or a condecending tone.
This approach does not help the cause or the image of veg*ns, and we need to find more effective ways of "selling" veg*nism.

Of course, there are people who will never be persuaded. For them, just don't waste your energy.

 

[SummerRain]

Hmm that's why it's so difficult to avoid those "lovefilm" guys who hang around the city centre trying to bully people into signing up... they ask you a question, if you ignore it you feel rude, but if you answer: they never let you go.

But aggressive sales people aside, I think this is a really good point, and something I'd never thought about quite like that before. I think I'll try to adopt this technique a little more when people ask me questions about my beliefs/veganism. I think it'll persuade people more than me giving a monolouge about my beliefs, and it'll also be less stressful for me! I always feel a bit like I should have this super good answer ready to go, but asking questions is more natural.

I think a lot of veg*ans seem to think omnis are always super defensive, but in my experience that just isn't true, but sometimes veg*ans I know can be a little too offensive (not as in... offensive, but as in, they launch an offense on somebody asking a question) which causes people to adopt a defensive response. Plus, if people are defensive, asking questions can defuse that.

Thanks for sharing.