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Insightful Discourse

Making conversations more clarifying, productive and useful.

Format
Four-hour workshop
Topics
Communication, Thinking
Core focus
People & Teams, Organisation
For
Managers and leaders

About this course

Some conversations leave us energised and clearer. Others leave us feeling less intelligent than before. It is tempting to put this down to the other person, but most of us have had both good and bad conversations with the same people.

There is a hidden and manageable factor behind the difference, and manageable means something can be done about it. This course looks at what and who creates the difference between conversations that clarify and those that confuse, and how to steer a discussion back towards something useful when it starts to drift.

No team will have good conversations every time. The aim is to raise the share of conversations that are worth having, and to create conditions in which insightful discourse becomes the norm in a company rather than the exception.

What the course explores

  • Why the same people can have both very good and very poor conversations
  • The hidden, manageable factor behind conversations that energise or drain
  • Steering a discussion towards something useful when it drifts
  • Creating conditions where insightful discourse becomes the norm in a company

Intended takeaway

Develop an understanding of what makes conversations clarifying and productive, and ways to make them more useful.

Proposed intended understanding, not a promised result.

Course profile

Topics
  • Communication (main emphasis)
  • Trust (not main emphasis)
  • Thinking (main emphasis)
  • Learning (not main emphasis)
  • Meaning (not main emphasis)
Core focus
  • You (not main emphasis)
  • People & Teams (main emphasis)
  • Organisation (main emphasis)
  • Wider World (not main emphasis)

Highlighted categories are this course’s main emphasis. The others are not its main emphasis, which does not mean they are absent.

Enquire about Insightful Discourse

Start a confidential conversation with Thomas Bothe about running this course for your managers. There is no automated booking and no financial obligation.