Too often in organizational life, we ask things of people or try to work with them before we have established a relationship. This is a big mistake.
We must establish a personal connection with each other.
Connection before content.
Without relatedness, no work can occur.
Connection before content is a principle that should run through everything we do. It can apply to meetings, projects, conversations, email correspondence, presentations, and more.
Research also shows that engaging in short conversations where participants are instructed to get to know one another boosts their performance on a variety of cognitive tasks.
Some ideas of how to “connect before content” | Will WiseRelationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change.
Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first.
Otherwise, the content falls on deaf ears.
So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.
Before we try to get down to any serious work with anyone, we should take the time to establish a relationship.
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