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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

610: How to Communicate with People Who Disagree with You with Dr. Tania Israel

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Tania Israel discusses the fundamental skills that help us have more empathic conversations. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) One skill to make difficult conversations more manageable 

2) How to stop seeing disagreement as a threat 

3) The two fears that keep us from actively listening 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep610 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT TANIA — 

Tania Israel is a Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Raised in Charlottesville, Virginia and educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University, Dr. Israel is known for her work on dialogue across political lines, social justice, and LGBT psychology. 

• Tania’s book: Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide, Skills and Strategies for Conversations That Work 

• Tania’s website: TaniaIsrael.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Study: “Hidden Tribes” 

• Technique: The Pomodoro Technique 

• Tool: Temi 

• Book: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt 

• Book: Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller 

• Cartoon: Peadoodles 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

0:04.2

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required

0:08.6

to flourish at work.

0:10.2

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz.

0:16.2

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 610 with Dr. Tanya Israel.

0:23.8

Tanya has some great perspective on how to chat with folks who disagree with you.

0:29.1

She even got me thinking again like, yeah, maybe I should just never bring up politics

0:32.9

at work.

0:33.9

And she opened my eyes to there may well be some prudent times and places and ways to

0:41.4

engage in the conversation such that you're actually both better off and enriched and

0:46.5

it's a risk worth taking under certain occasions.

0:49.0

So I'm inspired.

0:50.0

I think you will be two.

0:51.2

You'll learn one.

0:52.4

Once you'll to make difficult conversations more manageable to how to stop seeing disagreement

0:56.6

as a threat and three, the two fears that keep us from actively listing.

1:01.4

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Allen's

1:03.8

we've referenced, drop out by awesome at your job.com slash EP 610.

1:08.7

And if you want summary insights from this episode and every episode that's gone before

1:12.6

it, check out the gold nugget email list, which gives you the summarized three-ish minute

1:19.9

read version of each of these interviews.

1:22.4

It's called the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com.

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