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Validation of communications
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Validation Comes First in Powerful Conversations

Acceptance & validation of perspectives & emotions in conversations is critical to helping people think better & develop solutions to challenges.
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Seek Permission to Engage in Conversation
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Always Seek Permission to Engage in Conversation

Asking permission in a conversation is respectful and is extremely effective in building trust.
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challenge is a lifetime opportunity
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A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity

If the global pandemic is a once in a lifetime experience, then organisations have a once in a lifetime opportunity.
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Listen to connect - conversations of substance
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Listen to Connect – Conversations of Substance

Are you sufficiently present in your conversations to know when to listen? Create conversations of substance by learning to listen & link with this tip
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The Art of Powerful Conversation – Doubling your impact in half the time
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The Art of Powerful Conversation – Doubling your impact in half the time

Professionally the term ‘conversation’ is used with little thought to its form or value when in reality it IS the most sophisticated technology for getting things done.
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The Vital Mistake Leaders make when trying to Change Culture

Culture is driven by instinctive, repetitive habits & emotional responses within an organisation. Avoid these common mistakes made when attempting change
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Mistakes That Leaders Make When Trying to Change Culture

How your people think, behave and lead IS your culture…To change the culture, change how your people think, behave and lead! It all starts with one conversation.
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Business in Heels Conversation – Kisten Gunnis Interview

Kisten Gunnis, Operations Manager of Business In Heels speaks to Michelle Loch about creating Conversations of Substance with your teams, your colleagues and personal relationships
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Leaders must replace Empathy with Compassion

Recently I worked with a wonderful group of leaders who I was training to become in-house workplace coaches (a voluntary focus alongside their normal leadership and work duties – very cool). As the skills of this group have been increasing, so has the depth and value and power of the conversations they are having – […]

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Green Tea and Dark Chocolate

Those who know me well know that I cannot live without my green tea; and dark chocolate, whilst attempting to reduce its influence on my life, still holds its own on my Five Essential Foods list. Having said this, I’ve been venturing into the ‘Skinny Cap’ coffee world last year, but Green Tea and Chocolate are still my go to!
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