The art of Conversation
Average art, leaves the viewer with no emotional reaction, its boring, neither pleasant or unpleasant.
They say that great art has one of two reactions. People either love it or they hate it and they are able to tell you exactly why. It creates a conversation.
These conversations are not about right and wrong but about perspective. Anything in the world that invites us to have a conversation allows us to grow, understand, develop, learn, adjust and ultimately walk away better for the experience.
Remarkable Leaders do things differently
Here is one thing that is rarely practiced but makes a massive difference when you are trying to create remarkable results.
Make this small change and you are on the path to remarkable leadership and the results, rewards and benefits that go with that.
It builds trust
It gathers ideas
It encourages input
It invites collaboration
It’s a critical part of our leadership and mentoring programs. Most leaders think they do it, but in reality, they don’t
That thing. The art of conversation
You see for most leaders communication is one-way traffic. They tell you how it is, tell you what to do, they develop the strategy and you execute it and they measure your performance.
To turn communication into a conversation you have to be vulnerable enough to:
Know that you don’t have all the answers
Ask for others input and then really listen to what they have to say
Ask questions.
Here are the 6 critical questions that start a conversation
When talking about the future ask. What would you do? Then ask why? Then ask how?
When talking about the past ask. What worked well? What could have worked better? What would you do differently?
Now you have a conversation going, everyone learns, grows, develops and understands more.
Then, having listened, questioned, invited etc, you get to chart the path
Your level of trust goes through the roof, the number of ideas multiplies, morale improves and your results get better, remarkably better!
