Empathetic listening works for intervening with addicts and schizophrenics, why don't you try it in conflicts over product features or customer deadlines?
Join us on Troubleshooting Agile to learn how you can incorporate the principles of Motivational Interviewing to improve the outcomes of your conversations, with your hosts, Squirrel and Jeffrey.
Links:
- Motivational Interviewing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_interviewing
- LEAP: https://leapinstitute.org/about/
- Speaking with your EAR / 5 Secrets of Communication: https://feelinggood.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-five-secrets-v-1.pdf
- Non Violent Communication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication
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About Your Hosts
Squirrel and Jeffrey first met while working together at TIM group in 2013. A decade later, they remain united in their passion for growing organisations through better conversations.
Squirrel is an advisor, author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, helping companies of all sizes make huge, profitable improvements in their culture, skills, and processes.
You can find out more about his work here: https://douglassquirrel.com/index.html
Jeffrey is Vice President of Engineering at ION Analytics, Organiser at CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, author and speaker.
You can connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/
