Communication: The Secret Power of Storytelling in How We Connect with Charles Duhigg

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I'm your host, Eric Fisher, and in this episode we are revisiting a conversation I had with Charles Duhigg. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and best-selling author, and we're talking about his book Super Communicators, How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. And I thought this is worth revisiting because in a world of remote work, digital communication, and often polarizing conversations, it's good to revisit knowing how to connect when we communicate. So I thought this was a pretty timely topic and episode, especially when in this conversation we're talking about why discussions go off track. because we don't really know what kind of conversation we're having, what the three different types of conversations are, and then practical skills that great communicators use in order to create space for trust and openness and productive dialogue.

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