To connect with people or to have influence to others need you to be a good listener.
Being a good listener means you have your full attention on the person speaking to you. You have curiosity to ask her questions to find more about her and her doing.
When you become a good listener, you understand people better. Being understood is one of our native needs – that is to get accepted and to get recognized and to be seen.
What do you feel if you are accepted, recognized and been seen?
I would open my heart to the people understood me. I will feel happy to see the person. I will feel closer to the person. And naturally, what ever the person says will make a good impression on me. She will impact me somewhat.
That’s how influence works.
Being a good listener is to be an influencer.