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Meet Daniel. I design conversations for a living and so do you. Our lives are defined by the conversations we can and can’t have. Our teams and organizations are defined by the conversations they can and can’t have. Leadership is the art of creating the conditions for a transformative conversation. Conversations are the smallest unit of change.
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Daniel Stillman designs conversations for a living and insists that you do, too. As an executive coach and facilitator, he works with the leaders of companies of all shapes and sizes on their leadership and team dynamics as well as on product and organizational innovation.
The Conversation Factory is Daniel Stillman’s Conversation Laboratory. Daniel designs conversations for a living, and insists that you do, too. He works with organizations like Google, Nike and Visa to help them frame and sustain productive dialog, deepen their facilitation skills, and coach them through the innovation process.
- Men Who Are Forceful Are “Leaders”. Women Who Are Forceful Are Hysterical.
- Gender at Work: Hedging, Mansplaining and Manspreading
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… so we are taught. Dominance, power, and strength have historically been seen as "male" traits, after all. In fact, there is ample evidence that women are punished for acting too “bossy” or being “pushy”. Similarly, historically "feminine" behaviors, like vulnerability, collaboration, caring, connection and empathy are not deeply cultivated or enc...
Some people still reading this might actually doubt the proposition that gender affects conversations at all. Sigh. Women tend to use what Caroline Turner, author of Difference Works, calls “Disclaimers, hedges and tag questions.” Power is a fundamental element of conversations, and disclaimers push power away from the speaker: “You mighthave thoug...
In meetings, women commonly report getting their ideas “mansplained” back to them. This can lead female-identifying people to speak less (what’s the point, after all!?), and hold feelings of frustration and resentment. Sometimes comments spoken by women are not taken seriously until a man agrees with them, and often men will wind up, in essence, st...
Manspreading usually refers to the wide-legged habits of male commuters- taking up more than one butt’s-width of bench space on a train or bus. Manspreading exists in conversations, too. Many “traditional men” would assume that “traditional women” are more talkative…but some research shows that men talk more than women (especially in groups) and th...
Dec 14, 2023 · Author of Good Talk and host of The Conversation Factory podcast, Daniel Stillman shares insights from his journey through user experience research and industrial design into designing conversations between people.
May 1, 2020 · Daniel Stillman's Good Talk provides a user's manual to that most everyday of things – conversations. First of all he describes the how and why of conversations and why they matter. Because they are so everyday, we tend to think we have them down.
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May 1, 2020 · Daniel Stillman’s Good Talk gives us a powerful framework that unpacks and makes explicit all of our choices when interacting with other people across many contexts. The wide-ranging material provides a practical reference and an essential playbook.
