Communication Skills LibGuide

Communication & Interpersonal skills Videos by Julian Treasure

Have you ever felt like you're talking, but nobody is listening? Here's Julian Treasure to help you fix that. As the sound expert demonstrates some useful vocal exercises and shares tips on how to speak with empathy, he offers his vision for a sonorous world of listening and understanding.

In our louder and louder world, says sound expert Julian Treasure, "We are losing our listening." In this short, fascinating talk, Treasure shares five ways to re-tune your ears for conscious listening -- to other people and the world around you.

What's the best way to make a good point? Organizational psychologist Niro Sivanathan offers a fascinating lesson on the "dilution effect," a cognitive quirk that weakens our strongest cases -- and reveals why brevity is the true soul of persuasion.

Lessons in Communication

Stanford Graduate School of Business

This playlist includes team presentations on a specific communication topic from the Strategic Communication course at Stanford Graduate School of Business. This video serves to help others develop their own communication skills. Stanford GSB Communication Programs http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/stanford-gsb-experience/academic-advantages/communication-programs.

Brené Brown One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever

Brené Brown graduated with a doctorate in 2002 from the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work. At the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston, she started out as a research professor. Her studies emphasize sincerity and genuine leadership. COURAGE works and Brave Leaders Inc. are both run by her as founder and CEO. Numerous teaching honors have been bestowed upon her. The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, and Rising Strong are three of her books that have reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. On PBS, NPR, TED, and CNN, she and her work have been highlighted. Moreover, she runs The Daring as CEO.

Each week we find the world's top thought leaders and hand select their top 7 Super Tips to unleash your inner superpower. This week's tips are from Brené Brown.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation

When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations -- and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. In this insightful talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations. "Go out, talk to people, listen to people," she says. "And, most importantly, be prepared to be amazed."