MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS
MEANINGFUL
CONVERSATIONS
Cultivating curiosity and conversations that matter
BECOME INSATIABLY CURIOUS
BECOME
INSATIABLY CURIOUS
How can I retrain my brain to ask evocative questions—of myself and others?
LEARN
Aicha Evans of Intel Corporation shares her "best question aimed at helping people become both more aware and self-aware" on The Coaching Habit podcast
Hal Gregerson on how to create conditions for "catalytic questions—and breakthrough insights"
Margaret Wheatley reflects on how to become more curious
TUNE UP COMMUNICATION
What are the most common communication shortcomings of leaders? How can I overcome them?
LEARN
Often the success of communication is hampered by our unconscious cognitive biases, from VeryWellMind
PRACTICE
How to use paraphrasing to effectively communicate thinking and feeling, from Robert J. Garmston in Learning Forward's journal
From the NeuroLeadership Institute, strategies for leaders to make space for others' voices
Practice of the Seven Norms of Collaboration from Thinking Collaborative creates conditions for productive conversation
EMBRACE PRODUCTIVE CONFLICT
What is productive conflict? How can I create space for it on my team?
PRACTICE
Why and how to take your team beyond the culture of "nice," from Learning Forward
A step-by-step approach to productive confrontation from the book 'Fierce Conversations'
A protocol from School Reform Initiative to "see where people stand on difficult issues that need decisions"
ACTIVATE
ACTIVATE
EXTEND
EXTEND
Michael Bungay Stanier’s book unpacks essential coaching questions to demonstrate how you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.
Hal Gregerson’s book about the “conditions that give rise to catalytic questions—and breakthrough insights—and how anyone can create them.”
This book by New York Times Bestselling authors Patterson, Grenny, McMillan and Switzler offers tools for having crucial conversations, when the stakes are high.
A hostage negotiator offers insights on negotiation and communication, a podcast from Chris Voss.
Former FBI Agent Joe Navarro talks about how to convey and detect nonverbal messages.
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