159. Earn Your Audience: You Can’t Lead If No One’s Listening
What it takes to develop as a leader.Great leaders and great communicators aren't born, they're made. That's why John Hennessy and Tina Seelig, directors of Stanford University’s Knight-Hennessy Schol...
10 Sep 202422min
158. Hope for Cynics: Building Trusting Relationships through Communication
“Acts of trust are the bedrock on which relationships are formed.”There’s a lot in the world to make us cynical about other people and their motives and intentions. But by “trusting loudly,” Professor...
3 Sep 202428min
157. Communicating the Future: Defining Where We Want AI to Take Us
Artificial intelligence can now do a lot of things. But if you’re worried about it taking your place as a communicator, Russ Altman says you need to question why you’re communicating in the first plac...
27 Aug 202425min
156. Creative Communication: How Our Design Choices Illustrate Our Values
As a designer, Scott Doorley is interested in how humans create the world around them. It’s a conversation, he says, that starts with the question: What kind of world do we want?Doorley is the creativ...
20 Aug 202427min
155. Can We Be Candid? How to Communicate Clearly and Directly
Navigators know the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. In charting a course through communication, Susan Rice says the best route is often the most direct.Throughout her career a...
13 Aug 202420min
154. Rethinks: Communicating Better as a Leader
"In a leadership role, so much more of communication is about connecting with people, establishing shared humanity, motivating them, inspiring them, sometimes challenging them." On August 1, 2024, Jon...
6 Aug 202419min
153. Listen Up, Leaders: A Record-Setting Coach’s Guide to Communication
Tara VanDerveer has more wins than any other coach in NCAA basketball history. But as she says, motivating and leading teams isn’t about barking orders. Communication, she says, “It starts, number one...
30 Juli 202430min
152. Fix Your Communication: Why It’s About Connection Over Perfection
“Anything is fixable,” say Frances Frei and Anne Morriss. As cohosts of the Fixable podcast, they’re typically the ones doing the fixing, but on this special episode, they turn to Matt Abrahams for ti...
23 Juli 202439min
