Empathic Coaching Conversation

Empathic Coaching Conversation

The title of this blog has three words – empathic, coaching, and conversation. The central word is “coaching”, because “empathic” is the adjective modifying what kind of coaching we are using, while “conversation” is the tool used to do the coaching. That being said,...
Team Language – Connection Intelligence

Team Language – Connection Intelligence

Of recent memory, Judith Glaser [1] proposed her theory of Conversational Intelligence, outlining three levels of communication styles, the most productive being “co-creating conversation that transforms and shapes reality together” through mutual trust. Glaser...
Job Skills and Enduring Skills

Job Skills and Enduring Skills

The fast pace of technology today is changing jobs at a rate of every 5 years or less. Stephane Kasriel [1](2017) stated in his article Skill, re-skill, and reskill again, “the half-life of hard skills is continually falling—now at only about 5 or less years.”...
Design Thinking is Human-Centric

Design Thinking is Human-Centric

Human centered design can be defined as the process that places the human needs and limitations in a higher priority compared with other targets during the design thinking and production differential stages. During this process, the designer is required not only to...
Speaking from the heart

Speaking from the heart

Whatever happened to the old tradition of parents teaching their children to say “please” and “thank you?” The first amendment of our U.S. Constitution has been taking a beating in societal conversation with the open attitude that it’s okay to say anything any time to...
The Body of Communication

The Body of Communication

There is still considerable discussion on how we as humans learned to speak.  Introduction to Psychology textbooks outline the various theories about this discussion.  It seems that one of the most popular theory is Noam Chomsky’s[1] (1972) innate Language Acquisition...