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Can you imagine working with someone for 14 years before learning the key to how to effectively communicate with them?

Crazy, right?!?  

Effective communication is essential for any workplace. Learn from my story and take action now so you can help your teams communicate more easily with their own colleagues! 

My latest blog post, “From Miscommunication to Collaboration: How to Bridge Communication Gaps and Build Stronger Teams," delves into how different communication styles impact team dynamics and provides actionable insights.

Read the full blog post.

Until next time,

Linda

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Today's TEAMWORK TIP:

Here are some practical tips you can implement right away:

Encourage Open Dialogue: Foster an environment where team members feel comfortable sharing their thoughts and ideas.

Understand Communication Styles: Utilize tools like DISC or MBTI to better understand the communication preferences within your team.

Foster Active Listening: Encourage active listening to ensure team members fully understand each other before responding.

Today’s Connection-Building Questions 

As with Lane, in the story in this blog post, learning more about your peers can point out new ways of working and communicating with them. 

Try breaking people into small groups of two or three and inviting them to choose one or more of these questions to explore together. By allowing people to choose the question they wish to answer, you provide a safe space for those who feel vulnerable to sharing personal stories.

  • What is one thing that makes you smile when you think of it (other than your family or pets)?

  • What do you love to learn?

  • Where did you grow up and how do you think that influenced your communication style?

  • When you were a child, if you could have swapped places with anybody else you knew for one day, who might you have picked and why?

In case you missed these, here are a few other other posts from our archives:

As I’ve been talking to nonprofits who have made the transition to being fully or mostly remote, one topic continues to come up as a key theme to success.

Find ways to improve your online meetings!

Here is an article I ran across in 2020 that is still important today.

Does Your Team Know Their DiSC Style?

When I facilitate DiSC workshops with teams, we always talk about how each person’s DiSC style influences how they show up in meetings. In one of my most recent workshops (which happened to be in-person), a participant shared a story of a recent meeting where she finally got up the courage to offer an idea and other participants seemed to ignore her – so she shut down. She also did not engage or offer feedback when other participants with more dominant DiSC styles expressed their ideas – even though she had suggestions that might have resulted in significant improvements.

This all came out during our discussion. The more dominant participants were shocked that she felt the need to shut down, and this more analytical participant was surprised that they would have wanted to hear more from her! In the end, the team worked together to better understand each other’s natural styles and found ways to encourage everyone to speak up and be heard.

And there were hugs!

Understanding each other’s natural work styles and preferences can be key to improving how a team communicates and connects with each other.


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