28 Jan 2026 · 2 min
A short podcast episode (or excerpt) hosted by Bill Gallagher offering coaching on getting people to say 'yes' by listening for what they want. The audio includes two sponsor/promotional spots (Doxatalent and Align/Scoreboard) interleaved with Gallagher’s advice about aligning requests with others’ needs, plus sign‑off referencing scalingcoach.com and the Scaling Up Business Podcast.
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You want things. You need things. And if you're like me, like most of us, you spend time strategizing about how to get people to say yes and give you what you want or need. And you'll employ trickery, you'll employ brute force, you'll employ manipulation. Or some people will just avoid the whole thing altogether. We'll just hope it sort of works out. We won't ever ask or we'll let somebody else do the asking. But there's a much easier and natural way to get what you want. To get people to say yes and to take action consistent with the yes. And that is listening for, paying attention to, thinking about what they want. When you listen for and think about what other people want, the proposals, the invitations, the pitches, your requests of people will go so much easier, so much more natural and effortless. You'll just naturally say them in a way that aligns with what the other person needs and wants. You'll see ways to connect them even without trying so hard. So if you spend more time thinking about what other people need and want, your pitches, your proposals, your invitations will get a lot easier. And you can trust that you already know what you want and need. That'll come.
That'll be there.
It'll be there when you need it. That'll work itself out. Put more attention on what other people might want and need. And your invitations, proposals, requests, it'll all get easier. It certainly has for me. I've had to be less dominant, less trickery, less commanding, less bossy, more fun, more playful. Naturally, connecting what I want with what other people want and everything works out. That's the way you pass the baton. That's the way you be a natural, effortless leader. Hope that's been helpful. I'm Bill Gallagher, scaling coach and host of the Scaling Up Business Podcast. We bring our show to you every week with some tip, some idea, an interview, something else to do in the world of Scaling Up. Hopefully these things can help you to grow yourself as a leader and your business in the next week. If you like it like, subscribe, turn on notifications, pass it along to somebody else and you'll find all of our programs, our coaching, our workshops and more@scalingcoach.com all of our programs, the workshops, coaching levels and we've got stuff for almost every stage of company@scalingcoach.com.
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