Think fast, talk smart is a podcast produced by stamford university's graduate school of business. The show focuses on how to handle challenges, objections and scepticism in your work or personal life. This week we look at the first three ingredients that go into a successful communication: passion, preparation and personality.
Preparing to speak in front of a skeptical audience is more than thinking about objections beforehand – there are specific techniques you can use to respond to these challenging situations without sounding defensive, evasive, or dismissive. Here, we offer a few key tips for how to handle skepticism with aplomb.
In this podcast, host Matt Abrahams and Stanford GSB lecturer Burt Alper share how to prepare for these challenges from your audience and discuss the importance of tactics like acknowledging audience input, reframing responses, and how to remain cool, collected, and credible.
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