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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

792: How to Handle Negotiations and Difficult Conversations Like an Expert Hostage Negotiator with Scott Tillema

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🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Scott Tillema shares powerful wisdom on handling emotional and tense conversations with ease and finesse. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) Two powerful skills to help you connect with anyone 

2) A handy strategy to get people to listen in closely 

3) What people want to hear during emotional conversations 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep792 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT SCOTT — 

Scott Tillema is a top communication keynote speaker, FBI trained hostage negotiator, and senior associate with The Negotiations Collective.  

He is a nationally recognized leader in the field of crisis and hostage negotiations, training thousands of negotiators across the country. Scott has developed a model for hostage negotiation, which is now being adapted by those in the private sector for use in sales, marketing, communication, and leadership. 

• TEDx Talk: “The Secrets of Hostage Negotiators” by Scott Tillema 

• Website: NegotiationsCollective.com 

• Website: ScottTillema.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini 

• Book: Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate by Dan Shapiro 

• TED Talk: “Your body language may shape who you are” by Amy Cuddy 

• Previous episode: 693: Building Better Relationships through Validation with Michael Sorensen 


— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — 

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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 LeCaites.

0:19.2

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 792 with Scott Tillema.

0:23.6

Scott has a wealth experience from his time as a hostage negotiator sharing how to handle

0:29.5

negotiations and tricky conversations with ease and grace.

0:34.2

So you'll learn one two powerful skills to help you connect with anyone to a handy strategy

0:38.9

to get people to listen in closely and three, what people want to hear during emotional

0:43.2

conversations.

0:44.2

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that

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we've referenced, please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP seven nine two.

0:51.9

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every episode tagged by the topic and competency covered everything searchable.

1:00.8

A lot of goodies at awesome at your job.com.

1:03.4

Now here's the goods on Scott Scott Tillema is a top communication keynote speaker FBI

1:07.7

trained hostage negotiator and senior associate with the negotiations collective.

1:13.3

He is a nationally recognized leader in the field of crisis and hostage negotiations,

1:17.6

training thousands of negotiators across the country.

1:20.4

Scott has developed a model for hostage negotiation, which is now being adapted by those

1:24.4

in the private sector for use in sales, marketing, communication, and leadership.

1:29.0

Big thanks to Scott for sharing this wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors.

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