A couple of years ago, I gave one of my clients an experiment to practise āsmall talkā with a variety of people in and outside work. In the supermarket, on the many flights he took for work, with colleagues and so on.
There was a solid business case and reason for this as well as a deeply personal one which was about building trust, being genuinely interested in others and getting to know people as āhuman beingsā not just roles and titles. In essence it was about helping him to CONNECT with his work colleagues. Heād struggled to do this using the belief that āprivate stuff has no place at workā and it was having a detrimental effect on his work relationships ā people described him as āsecretiveā and āclosedā when of course he simply saw the world in a different way from his peers .
He really wanted to change this (whilst remaining true to what he described as āmy inner introvertā!) and so he started those experiments. He found it hard at first. He thought that talking about the weath...
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