Michael Ashford

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523 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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Speaking With Confidence · How Asking Questions Builds True Communication Confidence · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

I tell you that answer one way.

And you regurgitate that answer back to me one way and you're gonna be graded on how well you complete that exchange of of one way information.

And it just misses the extraction of communication.

What can you get out of somebody to better understand them, their concerns, their lived experience, their perspective, their truth?

However, you want to describe it, Tim.

It just um

To communicate well means to communicate fully both, and that is bidirectionally or omnidirectionally, however you want to characterize it.

It is it is getting out of this certainty mindset and opening up your curiosity and pointing that at others.

Because Tim, what you just described, so much of that communication learning in that point at that point in somebody's life is on the job training.

And that's a really terrible way to learn how to communicate well with others.

Uh I I I wanna see the rigor shaken up a little bit.

Like I understand things like math, science, uh, you know, history, those things have fact, those things have things that you know you you have to learn how to solve, use the quadratic equation.

Is that even the right word?

I don't even remember what it is now.

That's what's

thing.

And I don't necessarily know what it is, but I know it's a thing.

You've got to learn how to you've got to learn how to solve those problems.

You've got to learn how to to so uh follow the proper steps.

Yes, absolutely.

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