How to Talk to Humans: a Different Approach to Soft Skills
summary
Workshop argues that vulnerability becomes a marketable asset not a liability and teaches concrete practices: pair exercises, timed sharing, and active listening prompts used in live demos. Specifics include ten years of writing with eight years in marketing and one year of deliberate public speaking as the route to confidence. Examples show how to frame technical work as human stories, how onsite.com’s online leasing and background checks get explained to nontechnical listeners, and how a DDR competition anecdote makes storytelling stick.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 7:03Haruki Murakami
- 9:39Kevin Plank
- 27:16Types of Communicators
- 29:58The Social Relator
- 32:47Empathy
- 42:32What Is Your Passion
- 47:36How Do You Compel a Person To Take Action
- 54:39What Do You Do for a Living
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