949: How to End Miscommunications, Unclarity, and Endlessly Repeating the Same Conversation with Marsha Acker
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Marsha Acker reveals how to break free from the cycle of miscommunication and misunderstandings.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The root of misunderstandings and miscommunications
2) The four actions of every conversation
3) The more effective way to disagree with someone
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— ABOUT MARSHA —
Marsha Acker, CPCC, PCC, CPF, is the host of the Defining Moments of Leadership podcast, the founder and CEO of TeamCatapult, and the author of two groundbreaking and thought-provoking books: The Art and Science of Facilitation and Build Your Model for Leading Change (a workbook). Marsha has an international presence and reputation as a facilitator of meaningful conversations, a host of dialogue, and a passionate agilest. She coaches leadership teams to grow their collective leadership and to build the capability of achieving true, sustainable behavior change through dialogue.
• Book site: BuildYourModel.com
• LinkedIn: Marsha Acker
• Website: TeamCatapult.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Study: “Essential Conflict In The Workplace Statistics In 2024” from ZipDo
• Theory: 4 Player Model
• Book: "Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together" by William Isaacs
• Past episode: 159: Increasing Confidence by Increasing Self-Awareness with Dr. Tasha Eurich
• Past episode: 366: Mastering Conversations through Compassionate Curiosity with Kwame Christian
• Past episode: 707: Amy Edmondson on How to Build Thriving Teams with Psychological Safety
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Behavior and how we're showing up in communication. |
| 0:10.0 | Everything starts and ends with how we work with other humans. |
| 0:15.0 | If we notice that we keep coming back around to the same thing, |
| 0:20.0 | there's likely something that each one of us is thinking, but not really saying. |
| 0:24.7 | We're not saying it in a way that the other person can hear it. |
| 0:31.3 | Awareness precedes choice, precedes change. |
| 0:35.0 | That's Marsha Acre. |
| 0:37.0 | CPCC, PCC, PCC CPF. |
| 0:40.0 | She's an internationally recognized facilitator who helps teams hold more meaningful conversations. |
| 0:46.0 | And today Marsha's sharing how to break free for miscommunication and move forward. |
| 0:50.0 | So you'll learn one, the root of misunderstandings and miscommunications |
| 0:53.2 | two the four actions of every conversation and three a more effective way to disagree with someone. |
| 0:58.9 | I'm Pete McKitus this is how to be awesome at your job and now here's Marsha welcome. |
| 1:05.0 | Thanks Steve. I'm happy to be here. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm excited to talk to you, hear your wisdom, and first I got to know your pitch claimed you had the answer for why do |
| 1:16.8 | organizations have the same conversations over and over again without getting |
| 1:19.8 | anywhere feeling frustrated. So I'm just gonna put you on the spot right from the beginning. |
| 1:25.2 | Yeah. What's up with that and what do we do about it? |
| 1:28.8 | Yeah, well you know I think that so much of what we do every day is about having conversations with one another. |
| 1:37.0 | And I think many of us would look at conversations and communication as not something that we need to go get any kind of |
| 1:45.7 | development around it because we already do it. I mean we do it all day every day and I think many of us |
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