If you're looking for an edge in business today and want to be prepared to meet the challenges of tomorrow, persuasion strategies can be just what you need.  Successful business professionals know which persuasion strategies to use and how to use them.  You can enhance your credibility to be more persuasive.  There are words and word strategies that will make you more persuasive.  How you prove what you say can make you more persuasive.  There are simple and effective ways to incorporate more persuasion in your business with customers, subordinates, and managers.  During this web seminar participants will learn: To incorporate more persuasive words in oral and written communication  To increase their credibility and make it easier to persuade Why using data is not the most effective persuasion strategy (and what to do instead) How to look more persuasive Maura Schreier-Fleming is president of Best@Selling (www.BestatSelling.com.) She works with business and sales professionals who want to sell more and be more productive at work.  She is the author of Real-World Selling for Out-of-this-World Results, Monday Morning Sales Tips and writes several business columns including "Customer Connections" for the Dallas, Austin and Houston Business Journals.  She writes the Real Deal: Success for Women in Business blog for Allbusiness.com and is a Sales Coach for Allbusiness.com.  She's been quoted in the New York Times, Selling Power and Entrepreneur. Her clients include UPS, Fujitsu, the Houston Texans, Fannie Mae, Conoco and Chevron. She was Mobil Oil's first female lubrication engineer in the U.S. Maura has her M.S. from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. from Cornell University. Wednesday, March 3, 2010 9:30AM - 10:30AM (Pacific) This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Amanda Christofferson at amanda.christofferson@cornell.edu or 607-254-7111. Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded. Registration & Details     See Who's Coming About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. CEN is producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling.  As with all CEN programs, attendees are able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website.