Practical Eloquence Podcast

One of the world's top experts on customer loyalty and innovation shares his unique take on the nobility of service and shares stories of leaders who embody that ideal.

Fear of rejection is a major obstacle to persuasive communication, but you can overcome it with this approach drawn from my own experience and a remarkable book: Rejection Proof, by Jia Jiang.

For my very first podcast with a guest, I am honored to have a conversation with one of the top leadership speakers in the business, John Spence.

Although many of us are reluctant to directly ask for what we want, research and experience both show that those who are very clear about what they want are much more likely to get it.

Every time a buyer makes a decision, they are taking a risk. Astute salespeople know how to use the psychology of risk to increase their own chances of making a sale.

A mindset, a plan, and ten practical ideas for those who don't like self-promotion but know they need to do it.

As a leader, despite how hard you work to produce brief, clear and valuable messages, you usually need dialogue to close the deal—to  ensure that the message has had its intended effect and to make adjustments if not.

As a leader, you still have to be brief and clear in your communication, except for certain exceptions, which I discuss in this podcast.

As a leader, you have far more power to create both value and waste with your communication. This episode focuses on three ways that you can deliver more value every time you communicate.

Leaders need to be lean communicators more than anyone else, but they must also face the control paradox: they have to know when to shut up and relinquish control.

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.