Think your team is 100% aligned behind your initiative, only to later hear the talk of dissent or note that no progress is being made? Are you mistaking a “yes” spoken in a meeting for commitment? What’s the better question that could be asked to ensure you are not simply the receiver of the polite yes in a critical conversation?
I have a passion for how people use words and the process by which they make meaning from those words. Why the interest? Because words matter. The choice of one poor word can quickly send a meeting down an unproductive …
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If you only had 5 minutes with a stakeholder, what question would you ask?
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