89. Listen, Listen, Listen: How to Build Deep Connections

Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Published 2023-05-09
Whether you’re trying to build a romantic or professional connection, Rachel Greenwald’s advice is exactly the same. “Focus on how you make someone feel more than you focus on the words that you're saying,” she says.

As a professional coach, Greenwald helps people develop better communication skills, from executives in the business world to singles in the dating world. Building deep connections may at times be challenging, but as Greenwald says, it’s ultimately not complicated. “You're demonstrating that you're interested in someone and that you like them,” she says.

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Greenwald and host Matt Abrahams discuss relationship-building tactics like small talk, active listening, communication blindspots, and more.

Think Fast, Talk Smart is a podcast produced by Stanford Graduate School of Business. Each episode provides concrete, easy-to-implement tools and techniques to help you hone and enhance your communication skills.

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    With all due respect asking intriguing questions may ruin a first date. When two people are getting to know each other; they expect to be aware of the basic-vital information such as career, profession, address, hobbies, aspirations, daily routine, etc. If someone plays such a riddle; they may discourage the other person from pursuing the other one's love. Such an intriguing question game can be played when two people know quite enough about each other, and they wish to know more details about. That would awaken each person's curiosity when trying to nail the right guess about each one's life, so in consequence they will get more sympathetic. In short, in order to be good communicators; first we must be good listeners.