How To Have Coach-Like Conversations The People Impact podcast

A great way to improve the quality – and effectiveness – of your conversations is to have more coach-like conversations.

In this episode we give you five essential skills and tools that will change the quality of your conversations, your work communications and interactions.

The simple fact is, if you treat people like children, they will behave like children but when you treat people knowing that they are naturally creative, resourceful and whole human beings that you know they are – and that they were hired to be – they’re going to behave very differently.

Having more coach-like conversations means bringing an open mindset, instead of command-and-control.

Listening instead of waiting for the other person to stop talking, so you can start telling again, in a response ping pong back and forth.

Fundamentally, a shift away from telling, and moving into asking.

Clarifying what it is that you need, what it is that the other person needs, so you can create this space of ‘we’.

Explore all five with us:

1. levels of listening,

2. asking open questions,

3. parking your judgement,

4. self-awareness and self-management,

5. designing the alliance

Some of these may have you think “oh you’re right, thanks for the reminder”, and others, “wow, this one’s an eye opener”. Get in touch and tell us what this was for you (and have a good follow-up conversation with us about it).

All of these will improve all of your conversations, making them so much more productive and effective, with less stress and more connection.

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Lisa Dempsey

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Reach us both at PeopleImpactPodcast@gmail.com