Better Insights, Better Results
Forget lengthy presentations and long-meetings. Get things half done, in half the time, and involve people in your solution to get better results. In the book, 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, Peter Bregman shows you how to shoot for imperfection to get your ideas and solutions adopted.
If you want somebody to listen to you, you need to first give the other person some psychological air. Listen until the other person feels understood, affirmed, validated, and appreciated. You can do so through empathic listening. Once the other person has their psychological air, they’ll be ready, willing, and more able to listen to you.
Empathic listening is the highest form of listening. Empathic listening is not listening until you understand. It’s listening until the other person feels understood.
At the foundation of the Win/Win paradigm is character. In the book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey walks us through the 3 character traits of the Win/Win agreement. There are 3 character traits essential to Win/Win: integrity, maturity, and an Abundance Mentality.
In this post, I want to focus on the Competitive, Cooperative, Polarity, and Meta Meta-Program. Once you understand this pattern, you’ll gain tremendous insight into how you respond to information, as well as how those around you respond, and you can better blend your style as appropriate.
