Changing Conversations
Implement Consulting Group
Change happens and manifests in Conversations, both for us as humans and for organisations. As leaders and employees we are never not in conversation. Conversations are elemental in making things happen, but it is still a blind spot with a huge potential for many of us. Conversations might be the smallest biggest thing in making organisations fit for humans and fit for the future. In this explorative podcast series, hosts Katrina Marshall Dyrting and Stig Albertsen will discuss Changing Conversations together with a range of conversation evangelists. The guests will include business leaders, as well as management thinkers and thought leaders from academia and beyond.
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Michele Zanini - Cutting bureaucracy out of our conversations
Changing Conversations
01/03/23 • 45 min
Michele Zanini is the co-founder of the management lab and the co-author of the book “Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them”. Michele helps organisations become more resilient, creative and engaging places to work by inventing new management practices. We have invited Michele to talk about how we can unleash people’s potential by introducing a more humanocratic organisational model.
The key topics covered in this episode are:
- How organisations can reach their full potential by introducing the right organisational model
- How conversations in post-bureaucratic companies are far more lateral than they are vertical
- How to transfer knowledge and problem-solving expertise in a very organic way
- How to create cross-pollination of expertise within an organisation
- The importance of opening up the conversation and giving people the tools to have interesting and productive conversations with each other.
For references, links and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.
01/03/23 • 45 min
Wendy Smith – Capitalising on Tension in Conversation
Changing Conversations
11/24/22 • 50 min
Wendy Smith is a professor of management at the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, co-founder of the Women’s Leadership Initiative and author of the book Both/And Thinking. She is an advocate for bold leadership, and much of her work focuses on helping leaders and teams navigate paradoxes. We have invited Wendy Smith to talk about how we can get better at embracing paradoxes and go from either/or to both/and thinking.
The key topics covered in this episode are:
- How we can embrace and invite tensions into the organisation
- How paradox invites us to honour different points of view
- How we can capitalise on friction
- The importance of being transparent and vulnerable as a leader
- Inviting ourselves to think about a different possibility space
- How we can change questions from either/or to both/and
For references, links, and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.
11/24/22 • 50 min
Sheila Heen – Thanks for the feedback
Changing Conversations
11/01/22 • 42 min
Sheila Heen is the founder of Triad Consulting Group, a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School and Co-Author of “Thanks for the Feedback” and “Difficult Conversations”. She is consulting with companies ranging from Pixar, Hugo Boss to the NBA around difficult conversations, negotiation and sound decision-making. We have invited Sheila Heen to talk about the conversations around feedback and specifically how we can each be better feedback receivers.
The key topics covered in this episode are:
- How do we move away from being dismissive in the way we receive feedback to genuinely being grateful and appreciating the feedback
- Feedback as a learning and leadership skill
- The three types of triggered feedback reactions: Truth triggers, relationship triggers and identity triggers
- Asking for the feedback you want
- Enabling feedback in your organisation
For references, links, and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.
11/01/22 • 42 min
Gail Gallie - Changing a global conversation
Changing Conversations
09/27/22 • 40 min
Gail Gallie is the co-founder and creative leader of Project Everyone. Project Everyone is the organisation behind the campaign launch of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Previously, Gail has run marketing and advertising practices, but she is now focusing on how to drive solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. In this episode, we have invited Gail Gallie to talk about the conversations that led up to the big success that is the Global Goals and how it changed global conversations.
The key topics covered in this episode are:
- The conversations that led up to the creation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- The power of conversations, trusting your instinct, keeping it low-fi and listening
- How visuals can help fuel a conversation
- The importance of making things granular
- How we can engage everyone in changing global conversations
- How to enable a global ecosystem of changemakers
For references, links, and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.
09/27/22 • 40 min
Julie Diamond – Power in conversation
Changing Conversations
08/16/22 • 44 min
Julie Diamond is the founder of Diamond Leadership. She works as an executive coach and international leadership consultant, and she authored the book: “Power - A User’s Guide”. Her focus is on creating transformational learning and leadership solutions across sectors. In this episode, we talk with Julie Diamond about the power of power in conversations and how each of us can become better power users.
Key topics covered in this episode are:
- Understanding the difference between social and personal power
- Advice on how to be more inclusive as a person with high social power
- Speaking up as a person with low social power
- Addressing power when it comes to difficult conversations, for example conversations in a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion space
For references, links, and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.
08/16/22 • 44 min
Fred Dust – Committing to the conversation
Changing Conversations
05/25/22 • 45 min
Fred Dust is the founder of Dust&Co. He works as a designer and advisor to social and business leaders and he authored the book “Making Conversation”. Fred works at the intersection of business, society, and creativity where he tries to implement the craft of humancentric design. In this conversation, we talk with Fred Dust about the importance of committing to the conversation and thinking of conversation as a creative act.
Key topics covered in this episode are:
- Building a space for creative conversations
- Committing to the conversation first, the people second and your beliefs third
- Making friends with the unknown
- The importance of being a good listener
For references, links, and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.
05/25/22 • 45 min
David Whyte - Courageous conversations
Changing Conversations
03/22/22 • 34 min
David Whyte is a philosopher and poet. He explores the conversational nature of reality, focusing on the relationship of human beings to their world, to creation, to others, and to the end of life itself. In this conversation, David challenges us to think of conversations not as an exchange of words but rather as a lens through which you can look at your life and way of being.
Key topics covered in this episode are:
- Being in conversation with the things that are other than us
- The concept of a beautiful question
- The conversations you need to stop having
- The invitation you bring into a conversation
- Letting the conversation do the work
For references, links and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.
03/22/22 • 34 min
Elizabeth Stokoe - Effective conversations
Changing Conversations
02/08/22 • 35 min
Elizabeth Stokoe British is a scientist and Professor of Social Interaction at Loughborough University where she studies conversation analysis. In this conversation, we explore how Elizabeth’s research and experience could be applied to better understand and change conversations.
The key topics covered in this episode are:
- Our ability to predict the way a conversation is going to go
- The way that one word can change an entire conversation
- Mapping conversations to better understand which parts of them work less well
- The importance of “recipient design” in shaping great conversations
For references, links, and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.
02/08/22 • 35 min
Priya Parker - Gatherings that Change Us
Changing Conversations
01/11/22 • 45 min
In this episode we meet with conflict resolution facilitator and author, Priya Parker. We discuss takeaways from her book, “The Art of Gathering” and how to make a gathering meaningful, effective and engaging.
In the pursuit of designing more transformational conversations and meetings, Priya encourages us to address the deepest need of the moment in our gatherings, to name a meeting according to its purpose, and to think about when a conversation or a meeting should take place in the context of the “arch of the week”.
For references and links, visit the podcast homepage here.
01/11/22 • 45 min
Roger Martin - Changing conversations in strategy
Changing Conversations
12/14/21 • 32 min
Hosts Katrina and Stig are joined by renowned strategy advisor and author Professor Roger Martin. Roger Martin is former Dean and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada.
In this episode, we discuss Roger Martin’s 5 strategy questions laid out in his book “Playing to Win”. We talk about a case example from the book through the lens of changing conversations: how strategic conversations might have been problematic in the past, what the resulting conversations looked like, and what it took to change those conversations.
For references, links, and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.
12/14/21 • 32 min
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How many episodes does Changing Conversations have?
Changing Conversations currently has 14 episodes available.
What topics does Changing Conversations cover?
The podcast is about Management, Entrepreneurship, Podcasts and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Changing Conversations?
The episode title 'Michele Zanini - Cutting bureaucracy out of our conversations' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Changing Conversations?
The average episode length on Changing Conversations is 38 minutes.
How often are episodes of Changing Conversations released?
Episodes of Changing Conversations are typically released every 35 days, 1 hour.
When was the first episode of Changing Conversations?
The first episode of Changing Conversations was released on Nov 15, 2021.
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