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Insights from 5 Conversations: How to transform trust, engagement and performance at work

The book I will be curating insights from to develop some training courses is 5 Conversations: How to transform trust, engagement, and performance at work by Nick Cowley and Nigel Purse.

As the subtitle infers, this is a book about powerful conversations that can improve work relationships, build trust and improve performance.

There are five conversations discussed in the book which are:

  1. Conversation 1 – Establishing a trusting relations
  2. Conversation 2 – Agreeing mutual expectations
  3. Conversation 3 – Showing genuine appreciation
  4. Conversation 4 – Challenging unhelpful behaviour
  5. Conversation 5 – Building for the future

For each of these conversations, I will design virtual and face-to-face courses which can be used to train people to have these five conversations.

The first conversation I will focus on is how to have ‘challenging unhelpful behaviour’ conversations and we will start discussing it in the next post.