Can you recall a specific instance where you used effective persuasive tactics to successfully influence someone's opinion?

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I tend to deal with persuasive conversation in a way that tends to benefit all
parties involved. And one effective strategy I have found useful is to rather
than straight up say no and get into a confrontation, I tend to understand where
the party is coming from and what are the goals the party is trying to achieve
and what can be done to get into a win-win situation for both parties.
Especially in Amazon this comes into play almost every with the amount of
dependencies each team has and so much away team work being done.
One example I can think about was my sister team who manager License Manager was
working on a S Team level project where they unearthed a dependency on my team
pretty late into the cycle and there was very little time the team could do to
do an away team effort and came to me for the work to be done. I first
understood the business impct of their project and ceded control in this
situation by explaining that I have my core projects coming up but one invent
and simplify thing we could is to push back the component’s work to later in the
dev cycle and provide my support for their project which they can later come
back and finish off for my project. In this bargain I was also able to convince
my counterpart to provide me their Sr Engineer to do that work as we were taking
a risk to my project by pushing that component out. The outcome of this
arrangement was that we were able to deliver their project in time as well as
get their best engineer to work on my project which led to a timely and high
quality deliverable for my project as well.

Can you recall a specific instance where you used effective persuasive tactics to successfully influence someone's opinion?

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