Companies want innovation, but it can't happen without risk and creativity. So, what do you do to bring the workplace trust levels up to where you can have the difficult conversations to propel growth?
How can we create the conditions that enable collaboration, shared experience, mutual learning and use the shared capability of our teams toward innovation?
Safe and healthy conversations are the key to empowering your team to interact with their peers and wider stakeholders and create incredible results collectively.
Through a process of enlightening our colleagues of how Neuroscience and the physical working of the mind and body lead to a current use of three levels of engagement we can begin to unlock techniques that help us move toward conversation which are based on high levels of trust and co-creation.
Delivered by Tim Anderson, a specialist in people development, sales and communication techniques and shared with executives from organisations within private and not for profit sectors via interactive workshops.
During the workshops we learn how to listen to connect. Listening to Connect enables us to listen and not judge, confirm or reject; It is a way of listening to the other person with a focus on them not you. It’s bigger than listening to understand (which is more about listening to confirm what you know). Listening to connect is about focusing your attention on the other person: What are they trying to say? What are they thinking? What are they hoping you will help them explore? Connect to their ‘world’ and explore their world.
Outcomes
People thrive on connection and affirmation, not criticism and judgment. When we listen to connect we create a platform for peering into each other’s minds and become the catalyst of our next-generation thinking, enabling us to set more helpful, meaningful, and productive objectives for the future. When we adopt the framework of listening to connect, we improve our ability to connect, navigate and grow with others. We make better friends, better parents, and better partners – and in business we make better decisions and become better leaders for the present and the future.
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Created with images by rawpixel - "analyzing brainstorming business" • Anna Vander Stel - "Men talking in the cold" • rawpixel - "untitled image" • Štefan Štefančík - "Teamwork in the workplace"