Practice Pursuasion 3.8

Logos would likely be what I would use most although ethos and pathos might come into play at some point as it is definitely more effective to use all three in tandem.

Some of my arguments might be:

• We are the top performing team in the company (backed up with statistics of jobs and satisfied clients which is one of my job duties)
• We always test everything for the Work Services Team as far as work search goes
• Every time we've tested something it always improves thanks to the dynamic team that is here
  
• You know our team is the best or we wouldn't be on the 5th Ave team nor would Nine Star Education & Employment be The Leading Entity for helping people "Get a job, Keep a job and Advance on the job!"

Knowing my boss and we've had this discussion in reality argue with any of this logic. He knows it's all true!

I chose to use a real situation and all of the above statements are true.

Interesting add on to this:
I showed my supervisor & boss this post and it got adopted into some team meeting information. I get the feeling that it might also get adopted into a team Mission or Vision Statement somehow as that is what we seem to be discussing recently.

Second example:

Tuesday I was meeting with my boss and we got into a discussion over marketing and market share for Microsoft. His argument was that MS has 90% of the market because it's so user friendly. However I knew from my reading various articles that was not true and that Linux and Mac were eating away at that percentage steadily. To convince him I Googled all 3 companies and found out that the market shares are a lot different than what both of us thought. I still won the debate.

Third Example: Same meeting. That the website needs to be updated and optimized more efficently. I do not maintain my business website because I'm busy working and doing school work plus raising kids and the many other tasks I have. I pulled up Google again and did a basic search for our discussion looking for Nine Star once more but not finding it and then proved the point by pulling up main keywords for my own site and showing that through optimization two years later my website still comes up #4 for some of it's main keywords. To effectively spread the word about the program we are building and developing we need to update the website and market the program to get the client base we need. Result: I won

Using logic (logos) works best with my boss but also showing that I argue from ethics and honesty (ethos) is incredibly important in the Human Services Industry I serve.