While some top leaders tend to be great talkers, many plateau when it comes to connecting deeply. They’ve learned to talk at people, not with them, and it can hold them and their projects back.
Culture transformation is an advanced leadership skill.
Culture transformation is an advanced leadership skill. The primary way to change a culture is to use your conversational intelligence to create an environment that infuses energy and commitment into relationships, teams and the whole organization.
As a leader, we must learn to listen while navigating along with the person speaking toward a common destination – mutual understanding.
Our tried-and-true ideation processes can actually dampen the creativity organizations are working so hard to create.
Choose the constructive response the next time you find yourself at a leadership crossroad between results and relationships.
Blind spots are ways that our mind becomes blocked from seeing reality as it is – blinding us from seeing the real truth about ourselves in relation to others.
Connecting and bonding with others trumps conflict. I’ve found that even the best fighters — the proverbial smartest guys in the room — can break their addiction to being right by getting hooked on connecting behaviors instead.