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E010_Want to have healthy safety conversations? here are 10 tips


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In today's episode, we chat about what makes healthy safety conversations. We share 10 tips to help you think about conversations as healthy or unhealthy (rather than positive or negative) and their impact on your desired outcome.

The title may be slightly misleading as these are tips for any conversation. 

We all have conversations daily and often with ourselves. Sometimes those conversations are terrific, and others may not be quite as we anticipated.

So, what is a healthy conversation?

We often think about conversations as being either positive or negative; however, we like to say that it is not so much about positive or negative conversations but actually about their impact. We prefer to think of conversations as either healthy or unhealthy.

A friend of mine [Nuala] once said that emotions are your stop signs, they don't have to rule you, but they are your stop signs to say, oh, hang on a sec; what are we doing here? And how do we respond to it?

So, it is the interpretation and emotions that the conversations trigger in us, how we choose to let that impact us and how we respond. Do we appreciate the power of conversations, or is it something we take for granted?

We've grown up with a narrow view of conversations, thinking they are about talking, sharing information, telling people what to do, or telling others what's on our minds.

However, that is only part of the story…

Today's Emotional Gem is... COURAGE, visit the Show Notes for the full explanation and resources on emotional literacy. 

Click 👉  www.safetycollaborations.com/e010  for the full show notes, leave your thoughts, questions and comments and discover more about how we may help you.  

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