Conversations Worth Having Blog

It’s "Guess the Movie" time here at Conversations Worth Having. Here are your clues: It’s summer break on Amity Island, a fictional location off the coast of Massachusetts. Two teens frolic in the oce...

Maximize Leadership through Conversations

When you communicate, it conveys your leadership values and potential…whether you’re intending it to or not. Here are three keys to ensuring your voice conve...

“We’re not dreaming nearly enough.”   Mirjam Minderman

“Have conversations to challenge the dichotomy between long-term and short-term. If we don’t take both into account, there won’t be a short t...

Peak performance, ownership, and engagement are natural outcomes for people when they are included in meaningful ways around work that's purposeful. Nancy Kirkpatrick and Floyd Phillips recently share...

The Connected Zoomers and Boomers. Wouldn’t that be a great name for a rock band? This week’s Kickstarter group certainly thought so as they addressed the difficulties of communication in a multi-gene...

In today’s Kickstarter session, a participant shared that engagement numbers in her organization had decreased significantly following recent changes and the hiring of a number of new staff. Charged w...

The challenge in today’s Kickstarter session arose from leadership’s realization that the organization was completely stuck and unable to move forward.

Initial generative questions to gain more conte...

Can you imagine your manager saying this to you after you’ve tried to initiate a conversation worth having? Unfortunately, this is an all-too-familiar situation for many people, especially for one per...

Rumi said, “Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them.” He was guiding us to realize we have choice in each moment of every day. But it doesn’t always feel like that.

The world around us...

Imagine. Each week you participate in a two-hour weekly meeting with a team that is responsible for strengthening community and fostering well-being, and one person dominates the entire conversation. ...