Listen and learn how to get better at Effective Communication in this talk with our guest, Scott H Young. He is the author of 2 books on Learning: Get Better at Anything - 12 Maxims for Mastery, and Ultralearning - Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career. 

Scott is a Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Programmer, and Entrepreneur. His work has been featured in the New York Times, BBC, TEDx, Business Insider, and more.

In this episode, Scott H Young and host Desiree Timmermans talk about his latest book 'Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery', and how to apply it to effective communication.

"So I think these three aspects - seeing, doing, feedback - are important for all skills. And certainly they're important for learning communication skills." - Scott H Young

Links

• Book: Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery
• LinkedIn: Scott H Young
• Website: Scott H Young
• Contact Help To Grow Talk: [email protected]

Listen, and learn how to grow your Personal Power in this talk with our guest Chris Lipp. He is author of 3 books on Personal Power & Persuasion: The Startup Pitch - A Proven Formula to Win Funding; Magnetic - How Great Leaders Persuade and Inspire - which we discussed in podcast episode 5 -; and The Science of Personal Power - How to Build Confidence, Create Success, and Obtain Freedom. 

Chris is Principal Coach at SpeakValue and Professor, & Director of Management Communication at Tulane University Freeman School of Business.

In this episode, Chris Lipp and host Desiree Timmermans talk about Chris's latest book: The Science of Personal Power: How to Build Confidence, Create Success & Obtain Freedom.

"To really understand how to tap into your power is to recognize that power is neither a set of behaviors nor is it a certain personality that some people have and some people don't: Your Power is Within You. And you can tap it with the right mindset, and it's not a mindset of affirmation in these things - of course, those things help - but it's actually at a deeper level. And so personal power is the belief we have in our own capability to create impact." - Chris Lipp. 

Links

• LinkedIn: Chris Lipp
• Website: Speak Value
• Website: Tulane University Freeman School of Business

Listen, and learn about Conversational Receptivenss in this talk with our guest Michael Rain. 

Michael founded ENODI, a media and research company focused on all people with immigrant backgrounds. His TED Talk 'What it's like to be the child of immigrants' has over 1 million views. Michael is also a practitioner-in-residence at Harvard University, jointly at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. 

In this Help To Grow Talk Episode, Michael Rain talks about the importance of conversational receptiveness, a crucial communication skill that involves engaging thoughtfully with opposing views.

Links

• Company: ENODI
• Harvard University: Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics 
• Harvard University: The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
• Harvard University: Harvard Kennedy School of Government
• Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics: Michael Rain
• The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research: Michael Rain
• LinkedIn: Michael Rain
• Website: Michael Rain
• Harvard Kennedy School of Government: Julia Minson
• Harvard Kennedy School of Government: Robert Wilkinson
• Resource List:  The Ladder of Inference
• Contact Help To Grow Talk: [email protected]

Listen, and learn about Active Listening for Conflict Resolution in this talk with our guest Peter Novak, CEO and Founder of Strictly Speaking Group: better communicators build better companies.

In this Help To Grow Talk Episode, Peter Novak talks about how you can you use the technique of active listening for conflict resolution.

Links

• Company: Strictly Speaking Group
• LinkedIn: Peter Novak
• Book: Crucial Conversations: Tools For Talking When Stakes Are High (Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Emily Gregory)
• Book: Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most (Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen)
• Book: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Adam Grant)
• Contact Help To Grow Talk: [email protected]

Listen and learn how to be more convincing and be heard in this talk with our guest, Chris Lipp, based on his book 'Magnetic: How Great Leaders Persuade and Inspire' co-authored with Antoine De Morree. He is also the author of the book The Startup Pitch: A Proven Formula to Win Funding. Chris is writing his third book on communication and empowerment, set to be published in 2024 and titled Radiate: The Science of Personal Power. In addition, Chris is a Principal Coach at SpeakValue. He is a world-renowned pitch coach working with entrepreneurs to promote their ideas, and has raised over $200 million in funding.

In this episode about how to be more convincing and be heard, we cover for you the following topics: Chris's inspiration to write the book 'Magnetic: How Great Leaders Persuade and Inspire; Become Magnetic, 3 sets of approaches - how you encounter resistance, create value, and connect/relate -; and sneak peek into the new book by Chris, Radiate: The Science of Personal Power.

Links

• Book: Magnetic: How Great Leaders Pursuade and Inspire (Chris Lipp & Antoine De Morree)
• Book: The Startup Pitch: A Proven Formula to Win Funding (Chris Lipp)
• Book (upcoming): Radiate: The Science of Personal Power (Chris Lipp)
• Company: SpeakValue (Be Powerful. Persuasive. Magnetic)
• LinkedIn: Chris Lipp
• Contact Help To Grow Talk: [email protected]

Listen, and learn about Storytelling in this talk with our guest Shawon Jackson, Adjunct Lecturer in Management at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Founder & CEO at Vocal Justice.

In this episode about Storytelling, we cover the following topics: the what and why of storytelling, and its different elements; Vocal Justice - a nonprofit organization envisioning a world where everyone is liberated because everyone is cared for -; and recommended resources for listeners who want to learn more.

Links

• Stanford GSB: Shawon Jackson
• Nonprofit Organization: Vocal Justice
• Book: Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
• Book: TED Talks (Chris Anderson)
• Medium: Science of Story Building  (UF College of Journalism and Communications) 
• Contact Help To Grow Talk: [email protected]

Listen, and learn about the Art of Pitching to Investors in this talk with our guest Burt Alper, Lecturer in Management at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Founder of Burt Alper Consulting. 

We talk about pitching frameworks - AIM (Audience, Intent, Message) and CUE (Curiosity, Understanding, Excitement); making your pitch memorable; how the investment process works; rehearsing your pitch; anticipating investors questions; last thing you do in a pitch & make it investors easy; what to do if there is no fit & finding an analogy to better connect with investors; and resources that help you sharpen your pitching skills.

Links

• Stanford GSB: Burt Alper
• Company: Burt Alper Consulting
• Book: Get Backed: Craft your story, build the perfect pitch deck, and launch the venture of your dreams (Evan Baehr & Evan Loomis)
• Book: Guide to Presentations (Lynn Russel & Mary Munter)
• Book: Made to Stick - Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Chip Heath & Dan Heath
• Website: LinkedIn Series B pitch to Greylock (Reid Hoffman)
• Website: Perfecting your Pitch (Garage Ventures) 
• Contact Help To Grow Talk: [email protected]

Learn how to make your words count every time you write or speak in this talk with JD Schramm, Lecturer at USC Annenberg and a Keynote Speaker, Communication Consultant, Coach & Author. We talk about his book Communicate with Mastery. You never have a perfect call, talk, or email, but the goal in communication is: to get better and better.


Links

• LinkedIn: JD Schramm
• Book: Communicate with Mastery
• Book: Guide to Presentations (Lynn Russel, Mary Munter)
• Book: Resonate (Nancy Duarte)
• Tedx: The secret structure of great talks (Nancy Duarte)
• Website: DanPink.com (Daniel H. Pink)
• Website: Vocal Justice (Shawon Jackson)
• YouTube - Stanford Graduate School of Business: The Cost of Conformity (Shawon Jackson)
• Contact Help To Grow Talk: [email protected]

Listen, and learn how to overcome your speaking anxiety in this talk with our guest Matt Abrahams, Lecturer at Stanford University Graduate School of Business & Podcast Host of Think Fast Talk Smart. We talk about speaking anxiety sources & solutions, presentation structure: What? - So What? - Now What?, techniques to handle the fear of forgetting, and creating your anxiety management plan.

Links

• LinkedIn: Matt Abrahams
• Podcast: Think Fast Talk Smart
• Book: Speaking Up without Freaking Out
• Organization: Toastmasters International
• App: Orai - AI-Powered App for Practicing your Presentations
• App: Say IT Like So - Your Personal Speech Coach
• App: Poised - Free AI-Powered Communication Coach
• Contact Help To Grow Talk: [email protected]