TalkWise Podcast

Storytelling is one of the oldest, most enduring and most impactful of all the uses that we make of talk. Stories encourage us to listen, resonate with our felt experiences, and generate both meaning and connections for us. In this episode we explore, with physiotherapist, actor, coach and facilitator, Sue Macmillan, the various and significant roles that storytelling continues to play, in both our interactions and our inner lives, especially during turbulent times.

The way we talk to and about one another can make or break relationships, inter-personal, organisational or societal, so it’s important to be conscious, current and considered in how our words land with others. But such in-the-moment awareness requires real attention and effort, when so much of our speech follows unconscious habits and patterns. In this episode of the TalkWise podcast we explore with educationalist Duncan Partridge how to become more alert to micro-aggressions, how to co-create collaborative dialogues and how to use talk in the pursuit of greater equity, diversity and inclusion.

Strings of words arranged in meaningful patterns are central to human communication, so how is the sharing of understanding through the medium of words affected by dyslexia? In this episode we talk to designer, consultant and author, Dr Emma Jefferies, about how she overcomes the difficulties posed by her own dyslexia and uses it in her life and work to generate curiosity, creativity and empathy.

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Talk is potent. It’s the principal everyday means through which we humans make things happen. It influences how we and others feel, think and behave. Sometimes its effect is vanishingly slight, while at others it is real but temporary, but sometimes its impact is profound and lasting.

In this episode TalkWise podcast host Alan Robertson becomes the interviewee and reflects on some memorable conversations that had formative effects on him and his work during his own career.

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One of the most significant trends in the continuing evolution of executive coaching is the emergence of team coaching with its focus on the performance and dynamics of the whole team as a collective entity. 

In this episode we speak with team coach Kate Mason-Keaney, who explains some of the distinctive considerations and approaches involved in the process of giving deep and sustained developmental attention to a team over an extended period of time.

Much is said, supposed and written about management and leadership, but what do these big concepts actually require of individuals in practice? Are there really significant differences between management and leadership and, if so what are they and how do you prepare for them? In this episode of the podcast we explore these questions with someone who coaches people to make the transition from manager to leader, accredited master executive coach Helen Mundy.

Selling is one of the most intentional and frequent uses to which we humans put our ability to talk. Whether we’re endeavouring to sell products, services or ideas, we consciously want this form of talking to produce a result, and organisations invest more in this area than in any other form of communications training. In this episode we interview sales consultant, lecturer and trainer Andrew Wilcock to explore how patterns of effective Sales Talk have evolved and developed.

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Agile working is an approach to project management developed for a complex, uncertain and dynamic world that calls for the delivery of fast, flexible and progressive solutions. Like all methodologies, its success ultimately depends on people and how they actually behave in practice. In this episode we interview culture architect, consultant and facilitator Marian O’Brien to explore her work and the role that communication plays in creating agile people and organisations

Show notes: https://talk-wise.com/podcast_episodes/agile-people-with-marian-obrien/

Good communication comes not from abstract principles but from actions, from what actually happens when we speak. Our voices too are rooted and carried through our physical bodies and the feelings and experiences that we hold in them. In this episode we interview coach and developer Rachel Harrison and explore how her work helps people to express their authentic, intentional voice with greater ease by reconnecting mind, body and voice through emotion.

The importance of being ready, able and willing to listen as a key element in effective communication has been emphasised over and over again by previous guests on the TalkWise Podcast, irrespective of the particular field in which they work. In this episode we interview Dr Tim Ojo, who describes himself as ‘listening for a living’, and explore how he uses listening in his work as a professional psychiatrist, coach, mentor and mediator.