How to Be a Better Communicator: The OARS Framework from Motivational Interviewing
The most valuable skill I’ve ever learned isn’t about performance, mindset, or even resilience. It’s communication.
In this solo episode, I’m teaching you one of the most powerful tools I use as a coach, mentor, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, keynote speaker, parent, and partner. It comes from motivational interviewing and it’s called OARS: Open-ended questions, Affirmations, Reflective listening, and Summarizing.
These skills have completely changed how I show up in conversations. They’ve made me a better coach, teacher, partner, mom, and human.
Motivational interviewing is a…
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