Alison Wood Brooks has spent years studying conversation, in the workplace, between friends and even at parole hearings. She says that getting just a little more skilled at effectively communicating — by choosing better topics, asking better questions, listening more closely and practicing kindness — has big consequences, personally and in the professional world, too. She even has a handy acronym to help you keep track. Hint: it’s the title of her new book. Alison Wood Brooks is joining us to talk about, well, how to be a better talker.
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Alison Wood Brooks | Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Her new book is called “Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves” [Amazon | Bookshop].
Airdate: Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 9 a.m. Sat. March 29, 2025 at 11 a.m.