In this Café, I look at the difference between having and showing respect for someone. I then initiate a conversation about how to show respect.
Theme: Showing Respect
Format: Knowledge Café
Location: Face-to-face or Zoom
Duration: 120, 90 or 60 minutes
Introduction
This Café is one in a series of Knowledge Cafés on Conversational Leadership that I run face-to-face, on Zoom or Microsoft Teams.
Each Café is themed on material from my online blook on Conversational Leadership.
If you are unfamiliar with the Knowledge Café concept, this event is participatory, though I can run it as a webinar.
Theme
When people disagree with us over things we care deeply about, it is far too easy to assume they are stupid or jump to the conclusion that they are bad people, selfish, vindictive, stubborn, arrogant, or unreasonable. We fail to agree constructively; we demonize them and do not show them respect.
You do not need to respect someone or their ideas to show them respect.
As a society, we have come to a point where people too often treat one another as objects and opportunities, rather than as fellow human beings.
Respecting one another as individuals, or not doing so, seriously impacts the future for all of us.
Format
In this Café, I talk about the theme for 15 to 30 minutes, depending on the participants and the time available, and then pose the Café question
How do we show respect?
We then go into Café mode.
Reading Material
This post in my blook is optional reading material for the participants before or after the Café.