The Art Of The Interview

Anyone who is married will understand this statement: there's a big difference between really listening and fixing problems. And when there's a mismatch between what a spouse needs and what you're tr…

Am I the only one who gets nervous before I do an interview? Probably not! And for years I asked myself the question, "How do I get rid of this nervousness and anxiety that I experience before an int…

A marketing interview is one of the toughest interview types to get sincerity because you have a purpose - you're trying to get a marketing message to talk about a company.

How do you ask questions t…

I'm going to be honest with you, friends. I struggle to ask the "hard questions." And I'm not even talking about asking hostile, attacking questions that get juicy little audio bytes and do nothing t…

Interviews don't always have to be for an audience - sometimes they're just to retrieve information! But whatever the desired outcome, many of the same techniques apply for getting rockin' interviews…

There's several different schools in interviewing and reporting:

1. The old school: Interview the subject, and do your best to report just the facts and what they said - you stay out of it
2. The new sc…

Control is a negative buzzword in today's culture.

Controlling spouses. Controlling governments. Controlling religions. Control, control, control, I don't want to be controlled!

But actually, healthy…

Some people are easy to research. Say if you're interviewing Ryan Reynolds. Or Meg Ryan. Or Ryan Meganolds. Wait...

Other people are not so easy to do research on. Say that one local business owner w…

I recently watched Werner Herzog's documentary Into The Abyss. The film is a powerful look at the lives of a criminal on death row and the people who were affected by his supposed crimes.

One interes…

New years resolutions, Art of the Interview style...

I'll see you all in 2021!

The first question in an interview is vital. With the first question you set the tone of the interview, generate rapport and trust, and continue the process of creating a container of intimacy for th…

When you go into an interview, you're the leader. You're setting the direction and guiding the interviewee through the experience. If you're not in the lead, they won't know where to go, and subconsc…

Do you ever take a few minutes before to direct and orient your interviewees related to the coming interview? If not, you should. Likely they're uncertain and unconfident, and giving them this little…

I know it's a little presumptuous of me to compare myself with Tim Ferris, but I know one thing we do have in common.

We both focus heavily on the pre-interview.

In this episode, I talk about why doi…

There's quite a bit of crossover between what works well in an interview and what works well in a casual conversation over coffee. A lot of techniques to create safety and intimacy can readily apply …

We are the product of deeply-seated beliefs, feelings, and assumptions that we believe about ourselves, others, and the universe.  And whether we acknowledge it or not, we bring these assumptions int…

How do you handle difficult emotions, both inside yourself as well as when an interviewee experiences them during an interview? When someone gets angry, sad, hopeless, or inordinately elated during a…

Interviewers are humans too. And sometimes something happens which makes you, the interviewer, get very self-conscious during the interview. When this happens, it becomes very difficult to be present…

If there was one internal shift I would have interviewers make it would be this:

Respect the ask and give of what's being exchanged between you and the interviewer.

This ability is huge to our abilit…

Two days ago I interviewed a couple who host children in need through a local social services agency I'm creating videos for. The wife was highly introverted, and there was at least once during the i…