In Episode 096 of Now We're Talking, we discuss the steel man technique for arguing and why it works better than the straw man technique or the hollow man technique.

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Episode 096 - Persuasion through the steel man technique

In Episode 097 of Now We're Talking, we discuss rhetorical vision, and how to have a vision and why a vision is inspiring and persuasive and important.

Episode 097 - In order to persuade you need to have a vision

In Episode 098 of Now We're Talking, we discuss rapport, and how the HEAR technique can build rapport and lead to cooperation.

Episode 098 - How to foster cooperation through rapport

In Episode 099 of Now We're Talking, we review the 10-20-30 rule for making presentations and why that rule helps us to be more persuasive.

Episode 099 - Use the 10-20-30 rule to make persuasive presentations

In Episode 100 of Now We're Talking we discuss the neutral inner voice as an important form of intrapersonal communication. Master the neutral inner voice and improve all of your communicative interactions.

Episode 100 - The importance of the neutral inner voice

In Episode 101, we discuss the conditions that are necessary for engaging in the kind of conflict that will bring is closer together.

Episode 101 - How conflict can bring us closer together

In Episode 102 of Now We're Talking, we learn the dangers of the cycle of mindless reciprocation and how to avoid it.

Episode 102 - Avoiding the cylce of mindless reciprocation

In Episode 103 of Now We're Talking, we discuss the "feel, felt, found" technique for persuasion and for overcoming strong objections.

Episode 103 - The feel, felt, found technique for persuasion

In Episode 104 of Now We're Talking, we discuss the difference between support responses and shift responses in social interactions, and how we all might benefit from practicing support responses as we return to face-to-face social interactions.

Episode 104  - Support Responses and Shift Responses in Social Interactions

In Episode 105 of Now We're Talking, we discuss the inner voice and how to improve intrapersonal communication.

Episode 105 - More on the inner voice, or why not to watch Fox news

This is a podcast about communication skills for those that want to be a better partner, better teammate, better writer, better speaker, and better leader.  Each week we'll discuss how to improve your communication practices.

Episode 001 - What is communication? And how do I get better at it?

In Episode 002 of Now We're Talking we cover the basics of interpersonal communication and discuss some fundamental insights into how to be a better partner, better family member, better coworker, and better friend.

Episode 002 - The basics of interpersonal communication

This is a podcast about how to improve your communication skills, and in this episode we talk about mirroring, active listening, and some other advanced listening techniques to develop trust and intimacy through interpersonal communication.

Episode 003 - How to listen to develop trust and intimacy in interpersonal relationships

This is Episode 004 of Now We're Talking, a podcast about communication skills.  In this episode we talk about communicative narcissism, interpretive kindness, perception checking, and empathetic listening - all essential practices for a good partner.

Episode 004 - The essential practices for being a better partner

In this episode, we discuss self-disclosure as a necessary and important communication skill.  In particular we focus on the affect that self-disclosure has on interpersonal relationships, on teamwork, and in public settings.

Episode 005 - Self-disclosure and interpersonal relationships

In this episode we talk about helpful and harmful relational communication practices, and how certain practices help meet the socio-emotional needs of teams and others hurt teams.

Episode 009 - The importance of relational communication for teamwork

In Episode 010 of Now We're Talking we discuss effective and ineffective forms of functional communication in team settings.  Want to know how to help a team make a good decision or avoid a bad decision? Then follow these communication practices. 

Episode 010 - How to help a team make good decisions and avoid bad decisions

In this episode we talk about the basics of writing as a communication practice, and how every piece of writing needs to answer three questions and be driven by the values of clarity, precision, beauty, and eloquence. 

Episode 013 - The three questions every piece of writing must answer

In this episode of Now We're Talking we discuss what a sentence is and some of the most simple and direct ways for writing better sentences.

Episode 015 - What is a sentence and how do I write better sentences?

In Episode 021 of Now We're Talking, we review the process of making and responding to bids inside interpersonal relationships and how important that process is to healthy interpersonal relationships.

Episode 021 - The role of bids in interpersonal relationships

In Episode 030 of Now We're Talking we discuss ineffective small group communication practices, and how the desire for individuation can undermine cooperation.

Episode 030 - Ineffective small group communication, or how to undermine cooperation

In Episode 047 of Now We're Talking we discuss the differences between push tactics of persuasion and pull tactics and why leaders that use pull tactics are more successful than leaders that use push tactics.

Episode 047 - The difference between push tactics and pull tactics in persuasion

In Episode 051 of Now We're Talking we discuss the common practice of making assertions and why assertions are often not persuasive. We also review ways of making assertions more persuasive.

Episode 051 - Is assertion really the best method of persuasion?

In Episode 053 of Now We're Talking, we discuss the appropriate structure of a persuasive, rational paragraph, and how to improve the effectiveness of our writing.

Episode 053 - How to write a persuasive and rational paragraph

In Episode 062 of Now We're Talking, we offer a composite picture of effective leadership by showing how a leader can balance five main relational communication practices with five main functional communication practices.

Episode 062 - What Makes an Effective Leader?

In Episode 063 of Now We're Talking we discuss the importance of balancing warmth and directness in our embodied communicative interactions and why balancing warmth and directness will have profound effects on others.

Episode 063 - Why We Should Balance Warmth and Directness

In Episode 080 of Now We're Talking, we review the difference between pre-reflective communication practices and reflective communication practices and why it's so important to engage in reflective practices of communication.

Episode 080 - The key to improving all of your communication

In Episode 084 of Now We're Talking we discuss the art of asking strategic questions and how strategic questions can transform confrontation into collaboration.

Episode 084 - Asking strategic questions

In Episode 086 of Now We're Talking we review the psychological phenomenon of reactance and how it might contribute to miscommunication or failed persuasion and what we can do to avoid reactance through specific communication practices.

Episode 086 - Avoiding Reactance

In Episode 090 of Now We're Talking, we discuss why calling someone "crazy" is really ineffective and what to do instead in order to be persuasive.

Episode 090 - Don't Tell Someone They're Crazy, Do This Instead

In Episode 093 of Now We're Talking we discuss the difference between compliance and persuasion, why compliance is a red flag for communication, and why persuasion is a better choice for effective communication.

Episode 093 - What's the Difference Between Compliance and Persuasion?

In Episode 095 of Now We're Talking we compare communication practices that attempt to gain compliance through force (like threats, intimidation, and aggression) with communication that aims at cooperation in order to persuade.

Episode 095 - Why Compliance Through Force Doesn't Work

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