If holiday debates usually leave you drained, this guide offers practical, research-based tools to make your conversations calmer and more productive.

You can spend years building credibility at work and still feel unprepared for the moment you need to say something uncomfortable. That one difficult conversation you wish you could avoid often turns ...

Working with senior executives taught me that leaders who advance their careers don't avoid tough conversations that make everyone else uncomfortable. Instead, they've figured out how to turn those ...

Awkward conversations are not just valuable—they're often essential for achieving important goals. Often, there is no way to have a particular conversation without it being awkward! Examples: Talking ...

From election cycles to workplace committees to family dinners at home, conversations can be tense. While many people are getting into heated debates, others are self-censoring online and offline as a ...

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

Think about the last time your family sat down together and actually talked. Not quick updates shouted over shoulders or ...

Can political conversation be an act of love this Thanksgiving? In the wake of a tumultuous election, that seems impossible. But consider how my students typically talk with others about hot topics.

Prospective students and their parents participate in a campus tour at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., on Thursday, June 29, 2023. Credit: Alex Driehaus/ Valley News / Report For America Narain ...

Nicholas Munkhbaatar started using ChatGPT shortly after the artificial intelligence chatbot was released in late 2022. He was 14 at the time, and he says, "I would use it for almost everything, like ...

Autistic children – and adults – often communicate differently to neurotypical people. Key characteristics of autistic speech can include less eye contact, focusing on the details rather than the ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about why veterans are some of the most well-prepared Americans to lead our country's fight for unity. At a time when America is more divided than we've been since the Civil ...