Last week we talked about evidence-based practices to conduct more effective interviews, and I asked you to do a New Year’s self-assessment to identify changes necessary to your repertoire. Did you, do it??? Hmmm? Well, guess what? More self-assessment today on our use of persuasion vs influence
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Happy New Year to my readers here. 2025 is upon us and this is my first blog of the New Year. With each new year we often make resolutions which statistics say are normally broken by the second Friday of January, known as Quitters Day. Regardless, I
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“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”— Mother Teresa The last two weeks we examined the use of words in the interview room, both by the interviewer and interviewee. We looked at the importance of active listening to that person sitting across
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“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain Last week we looked at empathy and fear in the interview room. Keeping with our time in the interview room, where is our focus for detecting deception. Are
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Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It’s simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message “you’re not alone.” – Brene Brown When it comes to interviewing, we must keep fear paramount in
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“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill Change. How do you feel about the subject of change? For me, the older I get the more difficult change is, but that doesn’t mean I won’t do it, not for change
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“Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.” – Albert Einstein A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a list of qualities that we don’t want to see in our leaders. As I wrote it, I reflected on the similarities to the communication weaknesses that also plague
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“Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr. In our last blog we talked about being authentic and its relationship to success in life and interviewing. Part of that discussion involved the requirement for confidence and credibility in our
Read more →“Rapport is the ability to enter someone else’s world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.” –Tony Robbins This is the last in a series of three blogs on the intricacies and application of rapport to the interview process.
Read more →“Rapport is the ability to enter someone else’s world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.” –Tony Robbins This is the second in a series of three blogs on the intricacies and application of rapport to the interview
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