How do you navigate those tough or difficult conversations? We all have them and in this interactive session, learn how to be more confident and prepared in handling them.
Event Details
In this interactive session, led by Professor George Wu, we will explore common conversations or situations you may find challenging, perhaps because you feel ambushed or thrown off guard, or maybe because you are unsure of another party's intentions or motivations, or sometimes because the conversation is just outside of your comfort zone.
As a result, you might struggle to find the right words...or even worse...fail to initiate a conversation.
We'll discuss the psychology behind these situations and provide an opportunity to practice handling these situations so you can feel more confident and prepared when you face similar high stakes circumstances in the future.
Those that plan to attend will be contacted by email in advance to complete a brief questionnaire.
$25.00. Light appetizers and one drink ticket included.
Speaker Profiles
George Wu (Speaker)
JOHN P. AND LILLIAN A. GOULD PROFESSOR OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, University of Chicago, Booth
George Wu studies the psychology of decision making; decision analysis; and cognitive biases in bargaining and negotiation. Additionally, he has received research funding as part of a 3-year, $3.6 million project entitled "Enhancing the Human Experience through Behavioral Science: New Paths to Purpose," to advance the behavioral science of purpose. Project research explores how people adopt, pursue, and fulfill their intentions to accomplish something that is meaningful to the self, and often is of consequence to the world beyond the self."
Wu's research has been published widely in a number of journals in economics, management science, and psychology, including Cognitive Psychology, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Management Science, Psychological Science, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Prior to joining the Chicago Booth faculty in 1997, Wu was on the faculty of Harvard Business School as an assistant and associate professor in the managerial economics area and then in the negotiation and decision making group. He also has worked as a lecturer at Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to graduate school, Wu worked as a decision analyst at Procter & Gamble.
Wu is a a former department editor of Management Science and is on numerous other editorial boards, including Decision Analysis, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, and Theory and Decision. He earned a bachelor's degree cum laude in applied mathematics with a concentration in decision and control in 1985, a master's degree in applied mathematics in 1987, and a PhD in decision sciences in 1991, all from Harvard.
Questions
Anjoo Rai-Marchant, '08
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