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M1E3: How to Have First Time Conversations When There’s Specific Context
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In this episode, Georgie and I focus on first-time conversations with someone when a specific context has been layed out. These types of chats often happen when you’ve been directly introduced to someone or have met someone because you are each representing organisations with a specific objective in mind. We still label these conversations as forming because there is an opportunity to build a relationship with the other person, but sometimes the context takes centre stage and you forget to explore other ways to connect meaningfully with them.
Georgie and I try out 3 different ways of having the conversation with context:
- First, I dive directly into the reason for us meeting and bypass any exploratory conversation
- Second, we create space at the beginning of the discussion for exploration before shifting gears to the intended context
- Third, we meander our way through the discussion and touch on the initial context for the conversation at a high level, but there’s no abrupt transition from the exploratory portion of the conversation to the planned focus
- Like last time, we talk about what we noticed in the dialog after each example. We highlight the pros and cons of each strategy and how it might influence outcomes.
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