Daily Influence

Halfway to 100 episodes today!  

As we enter the weekend, we reflect on the importance of Communication, the most important influence we have as humans.  

Understanding how we communicate with self and use that to both uplift and deceive ourselves is important to have clarity with.  

Using communication to justify poor behavior is generally a byproduct of not wanting to be held accountable and using self communication we can overcome this negative trait and increase our ability to have a positive influence. 

We also can use the written word to provide understanding of context, which is critical to viable communication between people.

The written word is powerful.  One thing we can use the written word for that enables effective communication is clarification of context.  

When we engage in conversations between people, using the written word to identify your understanding is a powerful tool in ensuring effective communication is happening.  

Our discussion offers tips and examples of where the written word has become a powerful asset in building self and teams.

One of the negative aspects of self-communication is self-deception. Humans often struggle with accountability and deceive ourselves and others with justification.  When we justify our actions, we are deceiving ourselves and creating an opportunity for negative influence.  

We will dive into what self deception looks like and how to combat people in our lives who self deceive and justify poor behavior.

How we communicate with ourselves is as important as how we communicate with others.  One of the pitfalls we humans have is lying to oneself about the status of a situation, oftentimes due to emotions.  

We will unpack the importance of effective and positive self communication and what that actually looks like.

Communication is the foundation of human connection and understanding the foundational aspect of communication influence is essential to positive individual influence.  

We begin to dive into the foundation of how humans communicate and what effective communication looks like in high performing relationships.

We close out our specific discussion about Bias and set us up for our move to Communication next week.  

Our recap will recall the initial discussion about the three biases we have to deal with as (I)individuals: Conscious, Subconscious and Unconscious Bias.  

We then review identification of those biases and how we react to bias within our specific areas of influence.  

We then unpack the actual bias we face, from Confirmation Bias through individual beauty, age, gender and other biases that we deal with on a regular basis.

Produced by NOVA Media

Every bias we deal with has the potential for unintended consequences.  Learning about these for our conscious bias is powerful as it shines a light on influence we may not know we have been wielding.  

Understanding the unintended consequences of our sub/unconscious bias is also powerful and can be more dramatic. 

We unpack this issue here.

Produced by NOVA Media

In this episode, we will be unpacking the different bias we live with. All of them can be conscious, subconscious and unconscious biases.  

The list includes: 

• Confirmation Bias
• Affinity Bias
• Similarity Bias
• Beauty Bias
• Halo or Horn Effect Bias
• Contrast Bias
• Gender Bias
• Age Bias
• Performance Bias
• Likeability Bias
• Attribution Bias
• Maternal Bias
• Intersectionality Bias

As we unpack these, we will discuss how to understand them and what to do with that understanding.

Produced by NOVA Media

Understanding how and why we react to the different biases in our life is important.  We unpack the responses we experience and how making them known and understood is another positive individual influence that can help us be our best self.

Produced by NOVA Media

Episode 41 is our focus on identifying Bias as Conscious, Subconscious or Unconscious Bias.  

Each bias is unique in that how we identify them and what we can do with them once identified is different. 

Conscious bias is easy. We are conscious of the bias and understand why we are biased towards whatever it is we have the bias on. 

Subconscious bias is a bias that, oftentimes, is exposed without any thought. It's like a habit.  When called out, we may be defensive or not agree. But when we slow down and identify it objectively, we can pinpoint where the bias actually stems from. 

Unconscious bias is the most difficult and generally requires a third party to help us identify where it originates from and, oftentimes, we won't even be able to do that.  

Identifying our bias origination is critical to positive individual influence as it will enhance our ability to collaborate and communicate with larger groups of people.

Produced by NOVA Media