You will probably find yourself making dialogues with your colleagues, friends or family members every day and sometimes a few times a day. Have you thought for a moment if you have healthy dialogues? What are healthy dialogues you might ask?

When we discuss with our team members about specific idea or event, we come with specific goals in our mind. The goals vary from getting feedback to choosing the right feature to develop. Goals always exist in our mind but we find ourselves shifting from this goal to some other goal which changes our discussion. One of the common goals is: WIN. In how many dialogues you have been in which the desire to win beats the other goals? You are right. The desire to win built in our very fiber before we are old enough to know what’s going on.

Unfortunately, as we grow older, most of us don’t realize that this unhealthy desire to win is continually driving us away from healthy dialogue. We start the dialogue with the desire to solve a problem but we soon switch purposes in heartbeat. Two of my three words for 2010 have strong connection to the art of dialogue. The best networkers are people who know how to listen and make the best from dialogues.

Think for a moment, do you have healthy dialogues?

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