Yesterday I offered some collaborative conversation tips and suggestions, thanks to Richard Eppel (StrategicMomentum).

Those speaking and listening tips can help your team create (and enjoy) collaborative conversations. Those are the open and authentic exchanges between individuals. They are the conversations that generate sincere personal interaction, high-energy and high-performance among co-workers, among team members.

Collaborative conversations are the opposite of reactive conversations. Those are the ones you want to avoid, the conversations [...]

Collaborative conversations do not have to follow a standard format, a set script, or rigid dialogue.

They simply require that all parties have complete and equal opportunity to share, to be listened to, and to clarify and verify what they hear the other person say.

There are a number of processes available for building collaborative conversation as the normal communication behavior. Several resources are listed below.

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