Your 6 crucial communication traits

What exactly makes people like you?

Or respect you?

Or pay more to work with you?

It’s simple:

You need to become so essential that you’re irreplaceable.

Once you’re distinct and essential to clients and co-workers, they’ll bend over backwards to work with you. They’ll pay more for your time, and take action on what you say.

After researching the communication patterns of 600,000 people inside companies from AT&T to Visa, my team and I have mapped out the qualities that make YOU irreplaceable.

Your 6 vital traits stem from your Fascination Advantage.

Find the 6 top vital traits of your Advantage, below:

 Click an image below to download!

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See those 6 bullet points? Each one is a way in which you are likely to add value, and become THE go-to resource on your team.

Read them carefully.

Write them down.

Download to your desktop.

Print and review before your next big presentation.

More easy steps to become intensely valuable

  1. Find your primary Advantage among the images above (if you haven’t already taken the Fascinate® test, get it here).
  2. Update your LinkedIn profile or bio with these points (yes, you have my permission to copy them!).
  3. Print and share with your client or manager, so they can fully appreciate what you’re already doing right.
  4. Do a “lunch-and-learn” gathering in which each person describes their top 6 traits, and one way in which they apply that at work.
  5. Post your 6 vital traits in social media or on your blog, and get feedback on how you’re already applying this.

You can become more valued, admired, and liked. It’s not random. And it’s not that complicated. Just measure your communication patterns, identify your most valuable traits, and then apply them in your work and life.

Tell me how YOU apply your top vital traits, below!


 

TELL US IN THE COMMENTS: Which of the 6 is your key communication trait? Tell us in the comments, below!


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About the author

Sally Hogshead

Sally skyrocketed to the top of the advertising world in her early 20s, fascinating millions of consumers for clients such as MINI Cooper and Coca-Cola. Since then, she’s published two New York Times bestsellers on the science of fascination, and is one of only 172 living members in the Speaker Hall of Fame. Over a million professionals have taken the Fascination Advantage® personality test to discover how others perceive their communication.

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