Robin Dreeke: ...that the key to success is to treat others like you want to be treated
Nobody Told Me!
Nobody Told Me!
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🗓️ 29 June 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
We get some great insight and advice from Robin Dreeke, the former head of the FBI's Behavior Analysis Program and a recognized expert in the field of interpersonal communication. In this episode, Robin tells us how to create an instant connection, why some communication styles work better than others, and why it's important to follow what he's deemed "the platinum rule": treating others as they want to be treated. Robin is the author of several best-selling books, including "The Code of Trust: An American Counterintelligence Expert's Five Rules to Lead and Succeed". He is also the founder and president of People Formula, an organization that offers advanced rapport building, training, and consultation. His website is https://www.peopleformula.com/about
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. With us on this episode is Robin Dreek, former head of the FBI's behavioral analysis program and a recognized expert |
| 0:23.2 | in the field of interpersonal communication. Robin is also the founder and president of People |
| 0:28.7 | Formula, an organization that offers advanced rapport building, training, and consultation. And Robin is the |
| 0:35.5 | author of several books, including The Code of Trust, |
| 0:39.3 | and American Counterintelligence Experts, Five Rules to Lead and Succeed. |
| 0:44.5 | Robin, thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 0:47.4 | Oh, thanks for having me. I'm really excited to talk to you all both. |
| 0:49.7 | You were the former head of the FBI counterintelligence behavioral analysis program. |
| 0:55.0 | What exactly did that job entail? It sounds very interesting. |
| 1:00.3 | You know, when you first do anything, it sounds like it's really complicated. |
| 1:05.4 | And that's kind of where everything originated from. |
| 1:07.5 | So the job really entailed, you know, working with case agents, you know, |
| 1:11.8 | special agents across the field in the FBI that work counterintelligence. And they come to |
| 1:16.5 | us with requests on their cases, you know, whether they need a strategy for trying to recruit |
| 1:21.4 | a spy or double agent operation or interview strategies or false flags, all the hokey, spooky spy stuff, which is still |
| 1:29.9 | very alive and well. It can seem like it's an overwhelming, daunting things. Like, how do you do |
| 1:35.6 | all these different things? But when I took a step back years ago, a number of years ago, |
| 1:41.1 | and try to codify it, because someone asked me to write an article about it. |
| 1:45.0 | What I quickly realized was all I was strategizing every time we did a consultation or any time I |
| 1:51.0 | worked any of my own cases. |
| 1:52.5 | I was strategizing trust, honest, genuine trust with no manipulation, no deception, |
| 1:57.7 | just trust because everything in life that happens, whether it's at home or work |
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