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Dr. Rick Kirschner
Member since 14th June 2008
Occupation: Speaker, Author, Trainer, Coach Dr. Rick Kirschner is a respected faculty member of the Institute for Management Studies and an adjunct professor at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine. He conducts training for some of the world's best known organizations, from Heineken to NASA to Starbucks Coffee Company to Texas Instruments. He delivers his ideas and expertise on communication and conflict resolution in thousands of radio and television appearances, interviews, newspaper and magazine articles, from CNBC and CBC to FOX, from the Wall Street Journal to Success Magazine to USA Today.
Whether your interest is in how to embrace change, reduce conflict, or live a more fulfilling and healthy life, Dr. Rick Kirschner's message is simple—Change is inevitable, but progress is not. Discover how you make the difference. Dr. Kirschner and The Art of Change Skills for Life™ bring fresh perspective and motivation in a powerful yet simple approach, through speeches, teleseminars and coaching sessions that are fun, meaningful, and have a lasting impact.
Dr. Kirschner is the author of the comprehensive communication program, 'Insider's Guide To The Art of Persuasion.' He is the coauthor of the international bestseller, Dealing With People You Can't Stand: How To Bring Out The Best In People At Their Worst,' the ebook sequel 'Dealing With Relatives,' as well as 'Life By Design,' and 'Love Thy Customer;
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07th October 2008
In my work as a coach and educator, I call upon a wonderful metaphor to help my students and clients learn from their mistakes. It's a story about a guy who must go down a particularly dark road in order to get where he absolutely must go. First time, d...
08th September 2008
In the heavily hyped movie and book, 'The Secret,' they speak of the 'Law of Attraction,' which gets the genie in the sky to open up the great catalog and give you a bicycle. But this is no law! It does not appear anywhere in our universe except in the m...
05th September 2008
Here is an insight to help you communicate more effectively. When you talk with individuals, match your style to their need. Pay close attention, because style is behavior, and behavior changes depending on the situation.
In this model, there are fou...
02nd September 2008
The question before us: Is persuasion bad for society? It's an important question, because our world is witnessing an unprecedented onslaught of persuasive communication at every turn. Much of it is the creation of professional propagandists and marketing...
01st September 2008
To understand whether or not there is a moral basis to persuasive communication, I recommend the writing of innovator, Internet consultant and Fellow at the Prestigious Harvard Berkman Center, David Weinberger. He is writing about the morality of the ma...
14th August 2008
Did you hear about the scientific study that says nagging and whining actually work? Stirs the blood, doesn't it? (NOT!) The data seems to say that if your way of getting your way is to grind down the will to live in others, keep it up! Because when th...
22nd July 2008
School�s out, and your teenagers are home. An apt metaphor for this moment is a messy room. A metaphor for what? For any area of their life(and your relationship with them) that�s currently a mess! Keep reading to learn how to deal with a messy pa...
26th June 2008
Pain makes us laugh. Comics understand this. They know, and now you know, that pain, whether physical or emotional, is what is funny about funny. Not all pain, of course. Just pain that people survive. It's funnier when it's happening to somebody els...
25th June 2008
So just how do we use our wits to keep our wits about us? How do we use humor in our communications in order to foster goodwill, camaraderie and common ground? How do we persuade with humor?
For starters, be non-verbal! No, no, I don't mean don't say a...
24th June 2008
You know what's funny? The use of humor in positive persuasion! And I'll tell you why, even though it seems a bit obvious. The use of humor allows us to speak to the universality of the human experience. More, it invites people to laugh at themselves,...
23rd June 2008
There's a famous adage which you've no doubt heard. 'The Customer is ALWAYS right!' Yet the fact is, customers are often wrong. But if you have an interest in a successful business, and better relations between employees and customers, then it's still ...
23rd June 2008
If you want to increase motivation and performance in your team, you can use the power of positive persuasion. One way of defining persuasion is making a deliberate attempt to influence a person or group's attitude in order to bring about a change in beh...
23rd June 2008
Want to build and project your authority as you coach your team? Then make sure to make listening before talking your habit. Talking before listening is a common obstacle because you cannot coach what you don't understand.
Iunderstand how this happens...
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