Having Difficult Conversations Collaboratively by Misha Glouberman

Misha Glouberman teaches communication skills, and facilitates meetings and conferences for organizations. He has taught his course How to Talk to People About Things to hundreds of people imparting memorable and effective negotiation and conflict resolution skills which have been described as "life changing". He is the co-author of the book The Chairs Are Where the People Go, which the New Yorker named as one of its top nonfiction books of 2011 and described as "a triumph of what might be called conversational philosophy." In it, Misha relays everything he knows about communication, conferences, relationships, making friends, monogamy, playing charades and more. In this episode with Misha we cover: The importance of intending for your work to be life changing Understanding everyone is a character in their own movie Conversations as improv games How the best negotiators aim to maximize both substance and relationship in a negotiation A reframe to help bring up difficult topics in conversations Why you are probably running your meeting wrong You can find him at https://www.mishaglouberman.com/ Never miss an episode by subscribing to my email list: https://asadbadruddin.substack.com/