Hello, my friends, and welcome to our practice session. In our practice sessions, we invite our featured

guests to show off their negotiation and conflict resolution skills in a realistic scenario. In this

session, I want you to pay attention to what our guest does and not to what I do, because while

they are trying to show off their skills and teach you, I'm trying to frustrate their efforts in

different ways through things like aggression, annoyance, emotionality, or awkwardness.

And then after the practice session, we debrief and talk about what worked, what didn't work,

and what you can use in your next difficult conversation.

Michael, thanks for joining us again today.

It is great to be back. Thank you for having me. Yeah, man. Great to have you back. The feedback

on your episode was fantastic. So listeners, if you haven't checked out Michael's original episode,

make sure we're going to put a link in the description below so you can check that out.

Fantastic episode. But Michael, let's go ahead and start with a link in the description below so you can check that out fantastic episode but

michael let's go ahead and start with a reintroduction for those of you who might not know him

i appreciate it and we'll keep it brief so even if people do go back and check the link they don't have

to get bombarded with it twice but michael redington certified forensic interviewer executive resource

and president of inquisive.

Essentially, I teach executives how to reduce missed opportunities and increase commitments to action by using the truth to their advantage.

And we do that with the discipline listening method that we created by integrating business communication research and best practices with the world's leading

non-confrontational interview and interrogation techniques.

I feel like you've practiced that before, Michael.

I may have said it once or twice.

Legit, I try not to say it the same every single time, just because you never know when people

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