1031: Mastering Virtual Communication with Andrew Brodsky

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Brodsky shows how to sharpen your virtual communication skills.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What your emails and texts say about you

2) The PING framework for efficient virtual communication

3) Why in-person meetings aren’t always better

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— ABOUT ANDREW —

Andrew Brodsky is an award-winning professor, management consultant and virtual communications expert at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Poets&Quants selected Andrew as one of the “World’s 40 Best Business School Professors Under 40.” He is an expert in workplace technology, communication and productivity and serves as the CEO of Ping Group. Andrew earned a PhD in organizational behavior from Harvard Business School and BS from The Wharton School. He currently lives with his wife and two rescue dogs in Austin.

• Book: Ping: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication

• LinkedIn: Andrew Brodsky

• Website: ABrodsky.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Hex Kitchen by Stephanie Fazio

• Sketch: When a Text Conversation Goes Very Wrong - Key & Peele

• Email Urgency Bias (Research): "You don’t need to answer right away! Receivers overestimate how quickly senders expect responses to non-urgent work emails" by Laura Glurge and Vanessa Bohns

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0:00.0	Taking that moment to think, is this the right mode?
0:11.5	And am I using the best way possible?
0:13.5	Even though you're taking some time losing some productivity to engage in that thought process,
0:17.0	it actually saves you a ton of time in the long run and can really help improve your relationships in the process.
0:22.5	The problem is, if there's one slip-up
0:24.8	and they realize that you've been using AI for communication,
0:28.0	their assumption is going to be,
0:28.9	well, they've been using it every time I communicate with them.
0:31.3	And then their next question is going to be,
0:32.5	well, why am I even communicating with this person?
0:34.9	So there's such a risk that even one slip-up could really, really massively backfire.
0:46.0	That's Andrew Brodsky.
0:47.4	He's an award-winning professor, management consultant, and virtual communications expert
0:51.3	at the McComb's School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
0:55.1	Poets and Quant selected Andrew as one of the world's 40 best business school professors under 40.
1:00.7	His book, Ping, The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication, is the essential playbook for mastering the ins and outs of virtual communication.
1:08.6	So you'll learn, one, what your emails and texts say about you. Two, the Ping framework for efficient virtual communication. So you'll learn one, what your emails and texts say about you.
1:11.9	Two, the ping framework for efficient virtual communication.
1:16.1	And three, why in-person meetings aren't always better.
1:19.9	And if you want a quick summary write-up of these takeaways,
1:22.1	I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter found at
1:25.3	awesome at your job.com.
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