Intrapersonal activity, aka reflective review, leads to improved interpersonal exchange. Taking accountability for understanding your motivations, interpretations and personal biases lends insight to how our perspectives and perceptions colour our interactions. Emotional intelligence equates with our capacity for a greater spectrum of response to both...
The Art and Science of Communication
Physicist, David Bohm once said that society is based on shared meaning, which constitutes the culture. This shared meaning is the “glue” or the “cement” that holds society together. Shared meaning is necessary for society to function properly and for it to survive. In his essay Dialogue and Coherence, William van den Heuvel...
Interpersonal Relationships as a Critical Literacy
Where is the road map and directions for navigating the complexities of interpersonal relationships? Literacy is more than acquiring a set of skills. Literacy is the capability, confidence and competency we apply and evolve in a changing environment. To use a common example. We develop the skill to understand spoken words at an early age. We develop...
Building Relationships with Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative inquiry, when applied to human relationships, brings out the best in people, builds enduring emotional bonds and lays the groundwork for quality engagements. The appreciative inquiry model, is normally applied to systems, projects and individual issues to achieve positive outcomes. In this article,we have focused the model on human...
You can’t build a shared vision if there is no sharing.
The way we do our work affects the way other people do their work. As such, each person is key to the sustainability of the organization. Twenty years ago, Peter Senge described the learning organization as a group of people who are continually enhancing their capabilities to create what they want to create. This concept has been acknowledged by ...