Advisors’ conversational skills are crucial to their ability to help students. Advisors must be great conversationalists, but what is the art and science of conversation? How does one have significant conversations with students?

In this broadcast, we will explore the art and science of communication, including specific behaviors and theories designed to elicit significant conversations. We’ll review communication theory, verbal and nonverbal communication, and counseling theory and practice, with the intent of providing advisors with specific practices and theories they can use in their day-to-day lives. We will explore how significant conversations with students can also be a transformational experience that goes beyond prescriptive and developmental advising.

Join NACADA Emerging Leader José Rodriguez (Florida International University) as he discusses:

• Specific behaviors to help build rapport, encourage disclosure, and create more meaningful conversations with students
• Listening skills, including reflection, paraphrasing, check out statements
• Transformational advising: getting beyond prescriptive and developmental to helping students transform how they see themselves and their education

Participants will:

• Understand the nature of communication theory and human communication
• Identify key behaviors that help build rapport with students and contribute to significant conversations
• Understand how advisors help students transform their perceptions of themselves and their education