...let them speak. It’s quite simple really. The days of talking at an audience and expecting them to take much of it on board are gone. Expectations have changed: People want a conversation. They …
How do you get someone to listen?
It was an informal meeting in a hotel bar with 4 or 5 people present. I'd been asked to say a bit about this myself. This from someone I'd met only a few hours previously. Nothing very unusual about …
New language: Friend or foe?
We’re at a gathering of professionals... Some present find some of the language challenging. It doesn’t fit with their culture. They would like some of the words to be changed. They want met at their …
On-topic or off-topic?
They have something to say so they say it, whether it takes the theme forward or not. Sometimes what they say is a distraction sapping energy from the main flow of the dialogue. Eventually progress …
The difference between dialogue and discussion
Reading David Bohm's book "On Dialogue," which, not surprisingly, has a particularly helpful exposition of the difference between dialogue and discussion... (David Bohm was a renowned physicist of …
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When you go into “dialogue,” are you ready for change?
One inevitably leads to the other, or should... Mark is fighting his corner well. Back and forth goes the debate. Mark concedes little. He comes away with most of what he wants. All are tired out and …
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