Austin is a team leader with excellent speaking skills. His messages convey power and authority. His team has landed an extremely challenging project that requires extra effort from each member because of the tight deadlines involved. What are some other strategies Austin can use to persuade his team members to give their best performance for the project's success?

A major part of being persuasive involves choosing the correct linguistic style, a person's characteristic speaking pattern. A power-oriented linguistic style gives power and authority to message senders in many situations. Austin can use any of the following principles for supplementing his power-oriented talks to persuade his team to perform.
1. Liking: People like those who like them.
2. Reciprocity: People repay in kind.
3. Social proof: People follow the lead of similar others.
4. Consistency: People align with their clear commitments.
5. Authority: People defer to experts.
6. Scarcity: People want more of what they can have less of.
7. Pre-suason: Put people in a receptive mood before asking them for something.