Can you have a productive conversation with someone when you both disagree? Learn the secrets to negotiation and conversation from a police hostage negotiator. Sergeant Scott Tillema is a FBI…
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Continue readingIn this inspiring talk, advocate and educator Dean Bragonier offers a different take on Dyslexia. By looking at the unique mindset of Dyslexics as a strength, Dean reframes a perceived…
Continue readingYour words are what matter; they are the art form that gets people to give you what you want and gets people to comply. Here Evy shares some tips, tricks…
Continue readingIt takes so long to “grow up” today—finish education, find a stable job, get married—that it makes sense to think of it as a new life stage, emerging adulthood, in…
Continue readingThis talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Is 26% proficiency in math acceptable to you? That’s the question teacher and Synergy Academies…
Continue readingThis talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In this talk Andrew Tarvin talks about how he brought humor to the workplace while…
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