Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Miltight.

This time on the show, women, men, and communication at the office.

Men use I'm sorry almost always as a true apology.

I did something wrong and I need your forgiveness. Women say I'm

sorry as a way of smoothing things over. And why each sex needs to understand and appreciate

the other's communication style? Because it really is about capitalizing on differences and moving

from great minds think alike to great minds think unaligned, and really looking at

that unalike.

Coming up.

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I've always found language fascinating. As my first guest says, language is how we construct

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