"Text us your thoughts and questions!"

Are your team meetings a snooze fest, unproductive, or disengaged? Discover how to transform your team meetings into powerful decision-making sessions. In this episode, we dive into eight essential behaviors that promote effective dialogue and lead to better decisions. Whether you're a team leader or a participant, these strategies will help you foster a more collaborative and productive meeting environment. 

🔥 Why listen to this episode?
✅ You are ready to take your team to the next level.
✅ You want to facilitate collaboration and innovation.
✅ You want concrete skills to develop in your leadership team.

🔥Eight Game Changing Behaviors:
Behavior 1:  Accept messiness of conversations (We are humans)
Behavior 2:  Assume positive intent 
Behavior 3:  Be curious and listen to understand 
Behavior 4:  Validate assumptions
Behavior 5:  Agree on meaning of important words
Behavior 6:  Focus on interests first, not positions
Behavior 7:  Offer your relevant perspective 
Behavior 8:  Make specific requests and make specific offers

📖 Explore More: 
"Crucial Conversations" 3rd Ed. Grenny et al. 2021 https://a.co/d/b7PaXrl
"The Skilled Facilitator" 2016. Roger Schwarz https://a.co/d/0bzNpxI

 #kleeconnect #christinacarophd #simplyhuman #communication #conflictskills #dialgue #workteams #collaboration

🌐 Connect with Karen and Christina:
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👀 Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SimplyHuman-connect

https://kleeconnect.com (Professional/Organization Coaching)
https://selftrustcoach.com (Personal Coaching)
https://www.christinacarophd.com (Psychotherapy/Organization Development)
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"Text us your thoughts and questions!"

Imagine reducing conflict just by shifting your communication style! 

In this episode, discover your dominant communication style and learn about other powerful Advocacy with Inquiry communication styles . By intentionally and genuinely using these styles at the right times, you can immediately transform any conversation into being meaningful and productive. 

🔥 Why Watch This Episode?
✅ Learn about four common communication styles using the Advocacy and Inquiry model
✅ Learn how getting stuck in one style contributes to conflict
✅ Explore how to expand your comfort with other styles
✅ See how to apply Advocacy & Inquiry and communication style switching in a case study.


📖 Explore More:

Communication Style Handout: https://www.christinacarophd.com/s-projects-basic

🌐 Connect with Karen and Christina:
Email: [email protected]

👀 Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SimplyHuman-connect

https://kleeconnect.com (Professional/Organization Coaching)
https://selftrustcoach.com (Personal Coaching)
https://www.christinacarophd.com (Psychotherapy/Organization Development)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-lynskey-67794/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachcaro/
https://www.instagram.com/selftrustcoach/
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"Text us your thoughts and questions!"

Imagine having the inner wisdom and skill to turn “conflict” into a productive conversation. In this episode, we share a game changing interpersonal skill called Advocacy with Inquiry.

🔥Why Watch This Episode:

✅ You are ready to change your relationship with “conflict” conversations. 
✅ Understand how to engage differently to shift the outcome.
✅ Explore how one’s tone of positive intention is the cornerstone.
✅ Provides tips to ensure your inquiry is genuine.
✅ Learn the art of sentence stems to rapidly build this skill.


Read more: https://thesystemsthinker.com/productive-conversations-using-advocacy-and-inquiry-effectively/

Awareness Exercises:
1) Notice when you are making assumptions. What was the observable data that triggered the assumption?
2) Notice your tone when you engage in inquiry. Is it a tone of curiosity or a judgment pretending to be a question?
3) Notice your intentions when you engage in Advocacy with Inquiry. 

Handout: https://www.christinacarophd.com/s-projects-basic

🎬 Film Clip: "My Cousin Vinny". 1992. Director: Jonathan Lynn. Writer:  Dale Launer. Producers: Launer and Paul Schiff. TM and Copyright, 20th Century Fox Film Corp.. 

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Email: [email protected]

👀 Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SimplyHuman-connect

https://kleeconnect.com (Professional/Organization Coaching)
https://selftrustcoach.com (Personal Coaching)
https://www.christinacarophd.com (Psychotherapy/Organization Development)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-lynskey-67794/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachcaro/
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"Text us your thoughts and questions!"

Are your or other people’s stories about what  is REALLY  happening causing you unnecessary stress? Join us as we explore how our brains are wired to create stories based on assumptions to protect us until we intentionally create a new habit of openness and exploration

🔥 Why Watch This Episode?
✅ Understand how early negative experiences lead to curiosity-killing assumptions.
✅ Learn how to introduce curiosity and inquiry into your decision-making.
✅ Explore the cost of allowing your assumptions to cloud your judgment.
✅ Consciously help yourself and others foster mindsets of openness and exploration

📖 Explore More: We invite you to learn more about implicit bias on Dr. Marks' YouTube channel-

“Acknowledging and Managing Implicit Bias” with Dr. Bryant Marks, Professor of Psychology, Morehouse College. https://youtu.be/toQCvWpyJXI?si=txMyMVFLIMVBZzAv

The clip we showed: "Myth Busting Perceptions of Black Males" with Dr. Bryant Marks, Professor Psychology, Morehouse College. https://youtu.be/uEHrziKoJX0?si=WuHQsNVP3QkqO5Zz

Harvard Project Implicit assessments: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

🌐 Connect with Karen and Christina:
Email: [email protected]

👀 Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SimplyHuman-connect

https://kleeconnect.com (Professional/Organization Coaching)
https://selftrustcoach.com (Personal Coaching)
https://www.christinacarophd.com (Psychotherapy/Organization Development)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-lynskey-67794/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachcaro/
https://www.instagram.com/selftrustcoach/
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"Text us your thoughts and questions!"

Are you or someone you love a habitual conflict avoider? Is this strategy creating hurt feelings, anxiety, damaging your credibility, or just pissing people off? Join us for the first of several episodes focusing on foundational awareness and conflict engagement skills to feel more confident showing up authentically and courageously for yourself and others.

🎙️ Why Listen to this Episode?

✅ Learn how to spot the behaviors of conflict avoidance

✅ Understand the consequences of conflict avoidance

✅ Gain direction on how to start preparing to change conflict avoiding behavior

📖 Explore More:

“Getting “Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns and Encountering Naked Reality” with Pema Chödrön https://a.co/d/c8M64xv

👀 Watch this  episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/un-mDRite2s

🌐 Connect with Karen and Christina:
Email: [email protected]

👀 Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SimplyHuman-connect

https://kleeconnect.com (Professional/Organization Coaching)
https://selftrustcoach.com (Personal Coaching)
https://www.christinacarophd.com (Psychotherapy/Organization Development)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-lynskey-67794/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachcaro/
https://www.instagram.com/selftrustcoach/
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"Text us your thoughts and questions!"

Does the word "feedback" make you want to run for the hills? In this episode we explore why we have such a negative association with getting feedback and discuss how to reframe the process and approach to create a more positive, learning, and supportive experience.

 🔥Why Listen to  This Episode?
✅ Understand how early experiences with criticism can trigger fear of feedback
✅ Explore how foundation skills help you move beyond fear
✅ Discover the art of dialogue as an alternative to feedback
✅ Be the change you want to see in the area of giving and receiving feedback.

📖 Explore More:

"Why Feedback Fails" with Marcus Buckingham (watch time (03s02m) https://youtu.be/8V60RkBSrIM?si=F6J6_SxNPMfaVJdV

"Feedback v Coaching: with Marcus Buckingham (watch time (2m:30s) https://youtu.be/Z0XUEb_-T20?si=xU97gntfmy3FCKzL

🌐 Connect with Karen and Christina:
Email: [email protected]

👀 Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SimplyHuman-connect

https://kleeconnect.com (Professional/Organization Coaching)
https://selftrustcoach.com (Personal Coaching)
https://www.christinacarophd.com (Psychotherapy/Organization Development)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-lynskey-67794/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachcaro/
https://www.instagram.com/selftrustcoach/
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"Text us your thoughts and questions!"

Learn how to bring wisdom and integrity to difficult situations where you have to "go along" when  you don't agree. This episode is targeted mainly for leaders of all types as well as individual contributors in a work environment. It assumes that the organization is overall a good company but difficult decisions are being made and you, as a leader or individual contributor, need to navigate your feelings of disagreement to stay in your integrity.These skills also can be applied in any situation where you feel your integrity is on the line.

🔥 Why listen to this episode?

✅ We are all struggling with difficult decisions
✅ You want to be a better team leader
✅ You want to sharpen your integrity skills
✅ You find yourself complaining and blaming
✅ You want to handle difficult news with grace

📖 Explore More:
"Dare to Lead" by Brene Brown
xhttps://www.amazon.com/Dare-Lead-Brave-Conversations-Hearts/dp/0399592520

🌐 Connect with Karen and Christina:
Email: [email protected]

👀 Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SimplyHuman-connect

https://kleeconnect.com (Professional/Organization Coaching)
https://selftrustcoach.com (Personal Coaching)
https://www.christinacarophd.com (Psychotherapy/Organization Development)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-lynskey-67794/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachcaro/
https://www.instagram.com/selftrustcoach/
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"Text us your thoughts and questions!"

Is it possible that your habit of waiting until the last minute isn't procrastination? Have you tried strategies to "fix" your procrastination but nothing works? In this episode we invite you to bring curiosity to your experience to explore if you really are procrastinating or do you have a particular pressure prompted trait that has never been understood.

🔥 Why Listen To This Episode?
✅ Challenges the common understanding of "procrastination"
✅ Share alternative explanations of this behavior pattern
✅ Focuses on the much overlooked gifts of being pressure prompted
✅ Provides more useful strategies to optimize being pressure propped

📖 Explore More:
Pomodoro Technique https://www.pomodorotechnique.com


Esington 25 minute Magnetic Hour Glass
https://www.esington.com/products/esington-glass-new-edition-stop-time-medium

“Dopamine, time perception, and future time perspective” 2018, Mitchell et al. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6182591/

Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRfnTkBeAIrbSV7xdPIEoqg

🌐 Connect with Karen and Christina:
Email: [email protected]

👀 Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SimplyHuman-connect

https://kleeconnect.com (Professional/Organization Coaching)
https://selftrustcoach.com (Personal Coaching)
https://www.christinacarophd.com (Psychotherapy/Organization Development)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-lynskey-67794/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachcaro/
https://www.instagram.com/selftrustcoach/
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"Text us your thoughts and questions!"

🧳 Gain understanding about how we self-betray through self-censorship, failure to understand our needs and boundaries, and responding to old fear-based stories.

🔑 Learn core principles of cultivating enduring self-trust through faith, inner-work, and making the choice to act on your values, needs, and boundaries.

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😄 Share your comments and ideas to help us grow the channel and address your specific interests!

#Selftrust #Self-betrayal #faith #AuthenticSelf #SelfDiscovery #SelfImprovement #EmpowerYourself #selfconfidence 

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"Text us your thoughts and questions!"

People hear all the time that they should have "boundaries." But few truly understand what that means let alone how to implement effective boundaries. Christina and Karen walk you through a simple and time-tested approach to finally master interpersonal boundaries.

📖 Explore More:
“Personal Power: An Unorthodox Guide to Success: by H.B. Karl. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31770297911&searchurl=an%3Dkarp%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dpersonal%2Bpower%2Bunorthodox%2Bguide&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1

Love & Logic Parenting
https://www.loveandlogic.com/pages/parents

Boundaries full presentation
https://www.christinacarophd.com/videos

🚩 New Episode  will be available weekly on Saturday.

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