Respond Appropriately
Balance making the other person comfortable with sharing your goals.
Pay attention to sentence structure:
- If you want clarity use the past + you: “What did you mean by what you just said?”
- to show forcefulness use present + I/me: “I need,” “I like” and “I want.”
- to go in problem solving mode and identify a common solution use future + we/us
32
283 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
Inspired by Japanese thinking, love marketing, tea and cultivating a growth mindset.
Learn to make your meetings productive!
“
The idea is part of this collection:
Learn more about productivity with this collection
Techniques for brainstorming and generating new ideas
The power of collaboration and feedback in the creative process
How to recognize and overcome limiting beliefs
Related collections
Similar ideas to Respond Appropriately
Pace yourself
Get into a relaxed rhythm.
- Notice your pace next time you walk–what feels comfortable?
- Let your speaking connect with your walking, and notice how your sentence structure changes.
- Pay attention to when you pause and what patterns naturally emerge when you let y...
Use the hiring process as your cue
Pay attention to the following points during the remote hiring process.
- Organisation. Is the hiring process disorganised and full of misunderstanding and frustrations, or do they have streamlined systems that show evident respect for your time? ...
7. Listen Closely To Words
- By listening closely to what people have to say, you shift your attention from your thoughts to the person speaking.
- This practice works for social anxiety as well and you can use it to overcome the fear of talking to people. Instead of being entangled in thoughts like "what do I hav...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates