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Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques

Matt Abrahams, Think Fast Talk Smart

One of the most essential ingredients to success in business and life is effective communication. Join Matt Abrahams, best-selling author and Strategic Communication lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, as he interviews experts to provide actionable insights that help you communicate with clarity, confidence, and impact. From handling impromptu questions to crafting compelling messages, Matt explores practical strategies for real-world communication challenges. Whether you’re

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160. Best of: How to Communicate Your Gameplan

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2024/09/17

Why organizational strategy can be both top-down and bottom-up.As Professor Jesper Sørensen sees it, a winning strategy is the result of conversations, not commands, and that strategy can be directed from the C-suite, but it doesn’t have to be. “Lots of great strategies are discovered,” he says, “they’re discovered because the leaders were able to listen to their frontline workers or their frontline managers.” A more iterative approach, says Sørensen, helps companies adapt their strategy to

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20:25

159. Earn Your Audience: You Can’t Lead If No One’s...

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2024/09/10

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 Scholars, are working to create the great storytellers of tomorrow, today."We decided that there was a leadership void, and that was a driving motivation to do this," says Hennessy, former Stanford president and current Alphabet chairman. The program, which he co-founded in 2016 with Stanford alum

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158. Hope for Cynics: Building Trusting Relationships...

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2024/09/03

“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 Jamil Zaki believes we can renew our faith in one another.Zaki is a professor of psychology at Stanford, director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience lab, and author of several books, including his most recent, Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness. While many people feel

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22:24

157. Communicating the Future: Defining Where We Want...

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2024/08/27

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 place.Altman is a professor of bioengineering, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and host of Stanford Engineering’s podcast, The Future of Everything. According to him, advancing technology isn’t a threat to human creativity and connection, but a

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00:24:41

156. Creative Communication: How Our Design Choices...

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2024/08/20

Applying design thinking to communication can help create the world around us.

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155. Can We Be Candid? How to Communicate Clearly and...

Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques ·

2024/08/13

In communication the best route is often the most direct.

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00:16:15

154. Best of: Communicating Better as a Leader

Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques ·

2024/08/06

Dean Jon Levin shares his thoughts on the changing role of communication in business leadership.

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00:27:12

153. Listen Up, Leaders: A Record-Setting Coach’s...

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2024/07/30

Championships are won through communication.

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00:36:01

152. Fix Your Communication: Why It’s About...

Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques ·

2024/07/23

The Fixable podcast turns to Matt Abrahams on what to do when communication breaks down.

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00:26:17

151. Get Hired: How the Right Communication Can...

Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques ·

2024/07/16

Find the words that work — to get work.

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00:21:09

150. Communication Tips from the Classroom and Around...

Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques ·

2024/07/09

Good advice for good communication in this 150th episode.

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00:26:45

149. Best of: How to Take Risks in Your...

Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques ·

2024/07/02

Why we often over-index on risk.

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00:27:24

148. Conviction and Compassion: How to Have Hard...

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2024/06/25

"Directness, with respect, is essential.”

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147. Disrupt Yourself: How to Innovate Who You Are...

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2024/06/18

Disrupting yourself can open new doors and help you reach your full potential.

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00:19:06

146. Stress Resets: How to Change Your Internal...

Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques ·

2024/06/11

Manage stress by adjusting the conversations that we have with ourselves.

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145. Best of: The Art of Negotiation, How to Get More...

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2024/06/04

Approach negotiations with intention.

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00:21:14

144. Communicating Through Conflict: How to Get Along...

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2024/05/28

Transforming conflicts into something productive is to understand its root cause and to learn how to reframe them.

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00:19:57

143. Adopting a VC Mindset: How to Achieve More by...

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2024/05/21

Weigh alternatives, make decisions, and move forward without looking back.

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00:34:01

142. Power and Persuasion: Live Insights from...

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2024/05/14

Matt interviews four distinguished faculty members live from Stanford GSB.

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00:20:57

141. An Invitation for Innovation: Why Creativity Is...

Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques ·

2024/05/07

How leaders can foster cultures and environments where innovation thrives.

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