TalkWise Podcast
The TalkWise podcast is for you, if you want to understand and develop the skills of great communicators. In each episode we interview a leading practitioner on how to tackle one of the most relevant communications challenges in work and life today.
Episodes
31 episodes
Ethical Storytelling with Rachel Erskine
Narratives are powerful forces, shaping not only our perceptions and attitudes about issues but also how we behave towards other people. A narrative can inform or misinform, do good or do harm, expand understanding, co-operation, trust and well...
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Season 3
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Episode 31
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46:06
Being a speech and language therapist with Stef Ticehurst
For some people severe speech and language difficulties are very evident, whether they date from birth or from life misfortunes such as accidents, strokes and dementia. But in this episode learning and development expert and coa...
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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50:43
Omniworking, interview with Gwen Stirling-Wilkie
The world of work is still adjusting to the shocks and after-shocks of the covid pandemic. Rather than simply choosing or balancing where work happens, RTO (Return to Office) or WFH (Work from Home), organisations are faced with the need for un...
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Season 3
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Episode 29
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52:43
Learning to Listen Interview with Alan Robertson
One of the reasons why it is not easy to be a good listener is that there are so many other calls on our attention, both from the world around us and from what’s going through our minds as we supposedly ‘listen’ to others. In...
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Season 3
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Episode 28
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35:13
Selfless Listening with Janie Van Hool
Listening is a vital part of good communication and effective interactions, but it can be difficult to do it well. Selfless listening requires us to set aside our own concerns and to give our full attention to what someone else wishes to say. I...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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32:42
Creating Great Dialogue with Paul Minx
Although communication is sometimes described as one-way, no act of communication is merely one-dimensional: all communications reflect both intent, conscious or subconscious, and impact, positive, neutral or negative. So while speeches, presen...
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Season 3
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Episode 26
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40:18
Being present, listening and questioning
It is generally agreed that most human interactions would be improved, if we were better listeners. We are urged to ‘be present’ and to ‘listen actively.’ But what do these ideas mean in practice? How do we become better listeners? In thi...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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31:26
Overcoming organisational misalignment
There is a tacit assumption in all organisations: that their constituent parts will fit together and work. The reality is somewhat different, as evidenced by the size of the management consultancy sector, advising to organisations on how to imp...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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43:15
Inner Talk or Inner Conversation with Paul Gaskin
Talking is not just something that we do with other people. The way we talk to ourselves can also have an enormous impact on how we think, feel and behave, and on our life prospects and outcomes. In this episode, seasoned people ...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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45:57
To Be Seen, Heard, and Understood with Dr Clare Anderson
Being seen, heard and understood are vital to feeling valued and being able to make one’s full contribution, not just at work but in any social interaction. Too often we diminish others and ourselves by failing to see...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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38:52
The vital art of storytelling
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 e...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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1:03:27
Talking for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion with Duncan Partridge
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:04:24
Talking about Dyslexia, Curiosity, Creativity and Empathy with Dr Emma Jefferies
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 Je...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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59:01
Formative Conversations interview with TalkWise creator Alan Robertson
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 some...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:00:32
Team Coaching with Kate Mason-Keaney
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 spea...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:06:04
Coaching the Transition into Leadership with Helen Mundy
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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53:39
Sales Talk with Andrew Wilcock
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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56:31
Agile working in conversation with Marian O'Brien
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 an...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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50:27
The Embodied voice with Rachel Harrison
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 e...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:03:27
Listening for a living with psychiatrist Dr Tim Ojo
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. I...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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43:28
Working at board level with Rachael Hanley-Browne
Working at Board level is qualitatively different to other levels of executive responsibility. Board members need to be able to engage with a higher degree of complexity and apply their minds and voices to its challenges in wa...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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47:23
Exploring VoicePrint the TalkWise development tool with Alan Robertson
TalkWise: Talk is central to how we communicate, interact with one another and think. Using talk effectively is vital and at the same time beset with practical difficulties. In this episode of the podcast we interview business psychologist and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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31:24
How to have more presence and impact with Janie van Hool
Presence is essential for anyone who wants to have influence and make an impact. But what does your voice sound like, how do others feel about it and how can you learn to use it so you can always make it count? In this episode of the podcast we...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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52:38
Mastering the non-verbal voice with Professor Silke Paulmann
Tone of voice can have even more impact than the words we use. Having a deeper appreciation not just of what is said but of how it is being said is a vital aspect of becoming a better communicator, in expressing ourselves and in hearing others....
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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50:36
Become a successful networker with Howard Wilcox
Networking has become a fundamental life skill in a world where continuing technological change and rapid economic shifts have such profound impacts, turning many careers into patchworks or portfolios of very different roles. In this episode of...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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31:31