Lessons in Persuasive Language from The Game of Thrones
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Lessons in Persuasive Language from The Game of Thrones
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- 4. Tyrion’s plea to Daenerys (season 5, episode 8)
- 5. Sheer Genius Tyrion’s plea to Daenerys (season 5, episode 8)
- 6. Right up There with Winston Churchill’s First Speech as Britain’s Prime Minister “You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory.”
- 7. And the Soliloquy from Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire “Help me, Help you”
- 8. What does the Persuasive Language from Tyrion, Winston Churchill and Jerry Maguire have in common?
- 9. No Slides
- 10. No Props
- 11. No Teleprompter
- 12. Instead, the total focus lies with the speaker and what he says
- 13. Before going further, let’s talk about that thing in the room
- 14. Those in business often use PowerPoint as a
- 15. They feel naked without their slides
- 16. Yet, nothing wins over an audience like an individual alone on stage, expressing a viewpoint with utter conviction
- 17. Back to our friend Tyrion trying to sell Daenerys
- 18. In a corporate setting, Tyrion would fire up the PowerPoint deck and start talking
- 19. In Game of Thrones, it’s just him (Jorah has taken on the characteristics of wallpaper)
- 20. Our Boy Forthose not familiar with Game ofThrones, a quick bit of background onTyrion
- 21. He’s a dwarf with an uncanny knack for figuring things out and living to see another day
- 22. Shooting an through his dad’s chest put a damper on his career in the House of Lannister Not his finest moment in problem solving
- 23. He’s now trying to reinvent himself as a counselor to the one ruler on a roll, Daenerys
- 24. You’re up to date
- 25. In this scene, Tyrion has hit the proverbial fork in the road
- 26. Tyrion’s stature doesn’t portend a happy ending if he ends up in the fighting pits 6” 4” 2”
- 27. But Tyrion’s persuasive communications wins the day
- 28. The scene serves as a reminder of the Power of Language without “Decorations”
- 29. You can watch Tyrion in action in the initial 140 seconds of the video (Click on image plays the video, source: HBO)
- 30. This same communications would have looked something like the following in PowerPoint form
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- 47. It’s not bad
- 49. Nice touch with the visual storytelling, particularly explaining the bad guy problem
- 50. Levity even appears in the slides
- 51. Would the slide presentation have also earned Tyrion a place at Daenerys’ side as advisor?
- 52. Probably not
- 53. No question that the more persuasive of the two techniques comes from Tyrion standing alone …
- 54. Solely dependent on choice of words and delivery of those words
- 55. This isn’t to say business professionals should immediately stop using PowerPoint
- 56. The withdrawal symptoms from no PowerPoint would lower the country’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
- 57. But there are times you might consider going it alone
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