Enhance your persuasive communication skills through a three-part Sizzling Summer webinar series presented by the College of Public Health’s Office of Public Health Practice. It is open to everyone.
Kwame Christian, Esq., director of the American Negotiation Institute, is the featured speaker for the one-hour sessions, the first of which begins at noon today.
Christian conducts negotiation and conflict management workshops around the country. As an attorney and mediator with a bachelor’s of arts in psychology, a master of public policy, and a law degree, he brings a unique multidisciplinary approach to making difficult conversations easier. In addition to his role with the institute, Kwame also serves as a professor at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and Otterbein University’s MBA program.
Christian is the author of the best-selling book, “Nobody will Play with Me: How to Use Compassionate Curiosity to Find Confidence in Conflict,” and his TEDx Talk, “Finding Confidence in Conflict,” was the most popular TED Talk on the topic of conflict of 2017. He also hosts the top negotiation podcast in the world, “Negotiate Anything.” The show has been downloaded more than 600,000 times and has listeners in 181 different countries.
Click on the date to register for the webinars.
Today’s lecture, “Introduction to Persuasion and Negotiation,” will focus on increasing your confidence in conflict and negotiations, and serve as the basis for upcoming calls. This lecture will be repeated at 3 p.m. on June 24.
The second lecture, “The Psychology of Persuasion,” will take a deep dive into the psychology behind persuasion, discuss barriers to handling conflict and look at several persuasion personality types. Webinars are scheduled for noon, July 8, and 3 p.m., July 22.
The third lecture, “Finding Confidence in Conflict,” will provide strategies for successful conflict management and persuasion. Webinars are scheduled for noon, Aug. 12, and 3 p.m., Aug. 26.
The webinar series is sponsored in partnership with the Midwestern Public Health Training Center and the Nebraska Association of Local Health Directors.