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Episode 98 - What isn’t your team telling you?
Show Notes
There’s a wealth of untapped wisdom and information within our teams, but too much goes unspoken. By choosing curiosity, making it safe for others to share, and creating opportunities to ask and listen, we can access these insights, enrich our understanding, and improve our decision-making.
Jeff Wetzler is a human potential and learning expert with a background in business and education. His new book discusses how to tap into the expertise of those around us, and he joins Dan and Pia to share some of the key insights raised through his extensive research into team communication.
Takeaways from Dan and Pia
Three reasons to listen
- Understand how the quality of your questions can impact the effectiveness of problem-solving within a group
- Learn about ways to enhance communication and connection within teams
- Discover how to tap into the hidden wisdom and expertise of people around you for unexpected breakthroughs
Episode highlights
- [00:05:09] What are we thinking but not saying?
- [00:08:50] What are people not telling us?
- [00:10:25] What holds us back?
- [00:14:35] The "Ask" approach
- [00:26:36] Shut the heck up
- [00:27:34] Three impacts of asking
- [00:30:17] Paraphrase and test
- [00:32:11] Jeff's book recommendation
- [00:33:16] Takeaways from Pia and Dan
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Meet the guests
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In his 25+ years as an entrepreneur, management consultant, and co-CEO, Jeff has been obsessed with one question: how can we learn better? Through his work with top leaders around the world, he noticed one problem driving almost all communication blocks: more often than we realise, the people around us don’t tell us what would be most helpful for us to know, including their unique insights and original ideas – and we don’t ask. But he also saw that when people were able to overcome this problem, it unlocked entirely new levels of collaboration, creativity, and connection for everyone involved. That’s why he wrote ASK: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life (amzn.to/49iixhR). — to offer a research-backed and practice-tested approach that anyone can use to draw out the candid thoughts, ideas, and perspectives of the people around them, unlocking smarter decisions, more creative solutions, and deeper, more meaningful relationships. Featuring a foreword by acclaimed Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson, ASK has received early praise from notables such as Adam Grant, Kim Scott, and Jim Collins and has been named one of Next Big Idea Club's must reads The Ask Approach™ combines the best tools and frameworks.
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