The leading Harvard professor shows how we can all become better at conversation - and why this
will help us all thrive Conversation is at the heart of our relationships and our
decision-making. From meeting a colleague to saying goodnight to our loved ones our days are
filled with verbal communication -- but the science of everyday conversation is little known.
We may spend time thinking about difficult exchanges but research shows that there's room to
improve seemingly easy interactions too. In Talk Harvard professor Alison Wood Brooks shows
how simple changes in how we communicate can enhance our relationships our performance at work
and our lives who we talk to affects our happiness and how to talk across differences. Her
original research based on thousands of conversations from sales calls to speed dating
provides fascinating insights - for instance the way that certain questions affect dating
success and the role of jokes in reaching leadership positions. Learning to converse even a
little more effectively can make a big difference. Through her original TALK framework - Topics
Asking Levity and Kindness - Wood Brooks will give you the tools that her MBA students say
transforms their lives. Bringing together psychology linguistics sociology and neuroscience
Talk will show how we can use science to help us enrich our lives one conversation at a time.
