Podcasts of Eric's engaging presentations are available below. Use them to gain insight into what it's like being at one of Eric's talks or training sessions.

AAJ Boardwalk

An interview with Eric from the AAJ (American Association for Justice) Boardwalk event where Eric is a regular on the presentation schedule every year. In this podcast, Eric discusses his most recent book Persuasive Communication and delves into the thinking process and the conscious versus the unconscious mind.

The Facts Can't Speak for Themselves

The podcasts below are excerpts from Eric's renown "The Facts Can't Speak for Themselves" workshop, find out how anchors, frames and themes come together to emphasize your case story – and dramatically increase your odds of winning even the most difficult cases. Press play on the MP3 players below or download the podcasts to your computer here: http://www.eric-oliver.com/metapodcast2.rss.

The Who, What, When, Where and How of Human Decision-Making

Time: 11:56

What leads us – whether judges or jurors – to draw a conclusion or develop a perception? There's far more to it than meets the ear that the legal record (a typed transcript) can possibly account for. Rather, it's the other-than-conscious, leading mental processes that always determine how people arrive at decisions. Discover and get acquainted with the reality that decisions aren't made in the traditional, rational sense – instead, they're realized. Understanding how this happens will completely change your approach and your perspective.

The Stories People Tell: How Narrative is Used to Interpret Facts

Time: 4:15

Every one of us has a genetic predilection for narrative – and what attorneys are recognizing is that "narrative" is far more than just talking. Learn how people individually rewrite your case story – while you deliver it – and how that re-authored, private story is used to make their judgments, whether they will do that as mediators, judges, insurance adjusters, negotiating attorneys or jurors. The well known "filtering" of facts by decision makers turns out not to be just a function of preexisting biases; the lawyer's delivery of the case story has a significant effect on that filtering, early enough to make all the difference in the eventual outcome.

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