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Celebrate National Cancel Culture Awareness Day by reflecting on its impact. Balance accountability with empathy, promote dialogue, and encourage forgiveness. Together, we can foster understanding and compassion.

Today, we observe National Cancel Culture Awareness Day, a day dedicated to reflecting on the complex phenomenon of cancel culture. Cancel culture, the practice of withdrawing support from public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive, has become a significant part of our social and digital landscape. While it can serve as a powerful…

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How Entrepreneurs Should Make A Constructive Conversation

A constructive conversation transfers ideas from one mind to another and removes all obstacles from the way. Such a conversation feels as relaxing as a Sunday afternoon in your pajamas. It’s not that we’ve forgotten how to hold genuine conversations. The problem is graver. We’ve stopped learning how to hold a genuine conversation. The good news is you can learn it. All this ability demands is mindfully following seven key components. Apply these rules in business setup can help anyone, whether they are budding entrepreneurs or owners of a startup or CEO of a big corporate or just an employee.    

Listening

People often equate silence to listening. Effective listening helps you understand the other’s perspective and underlying feelings. It helps you hear what’s not said. It demands your complete presence with the speaker, and asking open-ended questions starting with “how” and “what” (and sometimes “why”) But over-listening tips the balance of a conversation too  

Empathy

All people who share something deep with you want to hear is, “I can’t imagine what it feels like. Is there something I can do?” Often that “something” is just listening without judgment.

Understand your counterpart’s feelings and hear what’s behind them.

Labeling Emotions

Emotions play a vital role in every conversation. Most people struggle to articulate how they feel in the moment. But you don’t have to feel your counterpart’s emotions to understand them better. When someone we care about shares how things are not going well, it’s tempting to feel their pain. But that impedes our listening and negatively impacts events that follow. You can label them. Labeling emotions is simply validating and acknowledging them.

Summarizing

Summarizing doesn’t mean imposing your point of view on your counterpart, or parroting their words back to them. That feels patronizing. It means describing the world the way your counterpart sees it in your words. An accurate summary makes your counterpart say “that’s right” instead of “you’re right.” Subtle difference in words, but a huge difference in mindset.  

Building Mutual Ground

Cracks in a conversation appear for two reasons. One, the speaker suffers from the curse of the expert. Two, she or he underestimates the counterpart’s ability to understand. Constructive conversations are held on a mutual ground, where the speaker uses analogies relevant to the listener to explain how things work from a broader perspective.  

Summary

Constructive conversations focus on more than winning an argument or putting your point across. They’re ones where both parties enjoy and feel comfortable. Sometimes one partner enjoys more. But that partner reciprocates at the next chance. Comfortable conversations build deeper relationships. In the forever-connected-but-lonely era, meaningful relationships are something we badly need.   Read the full article

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It’s hard to find people who can have a smart covo...like real smart conversations instead of going straight to some bs after 2 mins. Thanks @sonia_blade15 for the post 🙏🙌🙌 #stolenpost #constructiveconversations #ilikesmartpeople

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