Practical Eloquence podcast

When NASA considered how to get a man to the moon, it took two years of persuasion to settle on the right approach. This fascinating story contains useful lessons for anyone trying to sell a new idea in a large organization.

Social skills may be only common sense, so why do they seem to be so uncommon today? Here's a four-step process to take your people skills to an uncommon level.

As a leader, you need empathy more than ever, but you tend to use it less and less as you rise. Here's how and why to avoid the empathy erosion trap.

As you rise in an organization, lean communication becomes even more important because your words carry so much more weight. In this podcast I talk about how to avoid the ethos trap, which tempts you into taking shortcuts and degrades your communicaiton and influence skills.

Social Intelligence, along with IQ and EQ, can be a critical factor in your ability to get things done and in the quality of your career and your life. What are the skills you must master to become a social genius?

In communication, one bad event can ruin an otherwise stellar conversation or presentation, because bad is stronger than good. Here's how to ensure that you stay on your listeners' good side.

In this podcast, I "switch sides" to warn you against unscrupulous who use persuasive communication to fool you. If you know you're smarter than average and can't be fooled, you are precisely the person who should hear this.

When people think of images for speeches and presentations, they usually think of slides. But when you can use word to get your listeners to create pictures in their own minds, you can spark more intense emotions, embed them into their memories, and impel them to act.

We all know that networking is important, but we don't do it as much or as well as we should, especially if we are introverts. In this podcast, I share some principles to make networking palatable, and to play to your strengths, especially if you are an introvert and/or technical professional.

Although common wisdom says that it takes a long time to establish trust, scientists have proven that we decide whether to trust someone almost instantaneously. IN this podcast, I distill seven lessons from psychologists, consultants, FBI experts, and con artists to help you gain trust quickly.