Posts Tagged with "dialogue"

Reference #454: Organizational Culture and Leadership

Dialogue is fundamentally different from discussion. In discussion, your goal is often to solve problems quickly and try to win arguments. Dialogue slows down the conversation to allow you to examine your assumptions and reflect on what you say and hear.Read more →

Reference #455: Organizational Culture and Leadership

"Talking to the campfire" is a form of dialogue derived from native cultures. Some cultures engage in dialogue by gathering around and talking to a campfire rather than to each other. The absence of eye contact facilitates the suspension of reactions or objections.Read more →

Reference #456: Organizational Culture and Leadership

Effective dialogue requires suspension by its participants. This is enabled through rules imposed by the conversational process: not interrupting, talking to the campfire fire rather than to each other, limiting eye contact, and starting with a "check-in".Read more →

Reference #458: Organizational Culture and Leadership

Dialogue personalise cultural issues. This is especially true for dialogue with check-ins and conversations on critical issues of culture such as authority and intimacy. When you talk only about generalisations of countries and how their culture has evolved, your conversation is often transactional.Read more →