Crucial conversations
“Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.”
Theodore Zeldin
Exploring opportunities
As an executive team, have you had the big conversations that really explore your opportunities – that help you challenge your strategic priorities?
What is it that you are leading, how does it work, and how will you help your people understand this? What is your purpose and the reasons why you are going for it? What are your values and principles and the culture you aspire to build – beyond the words? How will you attract the people and customers of your choice?
What do you need to change in the ways you lead, work, and behave? How will you talk things through, listen to the meaning of what others say and without prejudice?
Big conversations...
The big conversations can often be missed – even though we might feel we have had them, perhaps in a long rambling and random way that leaves everyone drained of energy.
The most powerful conversations are around how the business works and how the team decide on the strategic priorities.
Creating a shared understanding and a desire to go for it, across everyone in the executive team (not an assumed one) requires deep insight and a structured visual approach.
Setting up these conversations and facilitating them is a specialist skill that Mark has built up over many years of experience with CEOs and their leadership teams. Mark has an 'catalogue' of case histories and bespoke tools, that have worked, set across different sectors including, professional services, technology, retail, media, sport, education, energy, distribution, healthcare.
Investing in your crucial conversations can create a huge uplift in performance. This experience and capability is a key strength of The Watson Practice approach.
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