Listening
The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to .......
Reply
How would you react to someone downplaying your contributions using sarcasm.
Undervalued, unworthy, inefficient ?
Before you know others, you must know ....
YOU or yourself
“If we don’t _____ we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” —Gail Sheehy
CHANGE
The ability to persuade someone is directly related to your ability to -------
Influence them
When leadership is requesting for an estimate on a project or task, what are they looking for when asking for the estimates ?
Predictability
Reviewing past, present trends/behaviors to come up with a good response
Transparency
Do more listening than ....
Talking
How would you feel if someone said your idea was stupid in a meeting
Feel discouraged, upset
How would you bring awareness to someone who is intruding a business conversation
Tell them calmly that the topic they are interested in will have to be discussed a bit later and get them involved with the current context.
Defer not deflect
Elements of _____ are Management and Trust
What are few of the non-persuasive styles
Authoritarian
Dictatorial
Mission Statement
Goal statement
Phil is a team member and it took him 3 attempts to his get challenges across to his manager during the 1-1. What would have made Phil feel better around how this discussion was handled?
He would have preferred some open questions from the manager which led him to speak up his challenges in a single attempt.
Your peer worked hard on a project presentation but 2 hours prior to the meeting he realized the changes weren't saved. How would you react to this incident
Come up with ideas where you could quickly get the highlights of the project presentation ready. SHare some of your existing presentation to make things easier and make him or her successful
You are about to go into a planning meeting, you are aware that your peer would like to get things moving quickly while you work with more details. How do you prep for this meeting so you can walk away with a desired outcome?
Go into the meeting with top 3 questions you may want answered...and run the meeting with that priority. Be prepared to negotiate/comprise as needed.
Various answers...
How would you persuade someone you work with to bring about positive outcomes ?
Influencing their behaviors and their environment
Spending quality time and providing inputs/feedback to this person1. Head
2. Heart
3. Gut/Intuition
What does foresight constitute of ?