I don't know how many people I have written off in my life because of communication styles. I know it's probably a lot though. I suspect I have been written off by a lot of people for the same reason.
Is your communication style affecting your career?
Updated: Jun 23, 2022
Post script to this blog:
Before publishing, I shared this blog with the graduate as this blog is all about a conversation that we had and I wanted his insights. Well, his insights blew me away and hopefully shortly he will be publishing a guest blog on his experience of our conversation as a graduate.
In the meantime I wanted to share just a few comments that I have extracted from his response to me - how amazing are these comments?
"Graduate perspective
As graduate we fall into conversation traps that can cause us to misunderstand and disconnect from each other. Those traps include:
Assuming that the other person is too busy to communicate. This results in graduate not putting…