Are You Looking To Strengthen Your Coversation Skills At Work?
Better conversations at work can lead to vital, exciting new connections and innovations. They can also get us noticed for our ideas, thoughtfulness and leadership. This is a skill that…
Posts by Sheila Wherry
Be A Role Model For How Your Team Communicate
It is possible to learn to create opportunities and spaces for open, helpful formal and informal dialogue to take place within your team, and model how you would like that…
A Team That Talks
Teams that engage in safe, high-quality communication are strong and get stuff done. Productive team dialogue doesn’t just happen. As leaders we have to consciously make space and give permission…
Conversing In Teams: The Roles We Play
Dynamics in conversations vary greatly depending not just on who is having the conversation, but the roles each person plays as well. Our roles in dialogue include: questioning – to…
How Clear Is Your Vision As a Leader?
You can tell your peers and your team what your vision is, but how engaged will they ever really be with that vision if it’s simply a statement rather than…
What Do The Best Communicators Have In Common?
I have experienced my clients demonstrate exceptional communication, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the following ways: Told people what they need to know in a timely manner. Communicated…
Creating Psychological Safety In Teams Through Dialogue
We can learn more and contribute more at work when we feel safe among out peers and with our leaders. Conversation is a powerful device to foster that safety. If…
How Can Leaders Develop A More Compassionate Style Of Leadership?
We know that compassionate leaders are more effective at bringing the best out of their teams, especially during a crisis. Here are four things that can help leaders find their…
The New Normal: Communicating To Connect
Whenever there is change, we need conversation to work through it and towards whatever the new normal is. For most of us, our teams have been apart for most of…
The Top Five Rules For Effective Communication During A Crisis.
Although communication during times of crisis and uncertainty needs a nuanced approach, it is important to remember fundamental tools of effective communication still apply: Listen to your team, and more…