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Crucial conversations wiki summary5/2/2024 I learned that they have very different communication preferences and that not everyone is like me, but we can still work well together.I’ve started to meet some old friends again, after having a hard conversation about how we have a lot of “safe, but superficial” conversations. So, instead of thinking that they’re not professional, I started to bring it up and discovered they most of them have a strong preference for being called instead of reading email/messages. Even when I email them multiple times or message them on LinkedIn. Since I know this stuff I’ve started to discover the humanity in others:Recruiters have a tendency to call and then not get back to me. This is what this workshop is about.When I think of the crucial conversations in my life, I can’t remember any conversations that went well, but a lot of conversations that didn’t happen:I quit my last two permanent jobs because I didn’t clearly state to my manager that I was unhappy with the salary and with they way they were doing things, respectivelySo, so many conversations with my parents where I concluded that they don’t know what they’re doing or talking about and I stopped listening to them or even talking to them. But life doesn’t work like that: they’re both equally important.So this is why I’m here… because the human interaction is so important. In my mind I’ve always been a person of business first, human interaction later. Where I’m going with this is that the social aspect is so much more important that I thought. I remember very well the moment when I defended my master thesis, it was my work, but both my supervisors were there.My insight is not about how humans socialise all the time. Even when it seems that I did something by myself, there’s always a mentor or a friend that supported me in achieving that something. I’ve come to the understanding that all important moments in my life happened and happening around other people. As I was preparing for this presentation I’ve discovered that my presentation skills are a lot worse than my slide making skills :)I’m doing my best, but… bear with me.During my 1 year sabbatical I’ve had plenty of those, but one of them stayed with me and changed the way I see the world.
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