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The Power of Conversation

You are at a lunch or dinner function and there are seven people at the table. Initially the conversation involves the table as a whole, but as people begin to eat, the conversations devolve into smaller groups. Perhaps four people at one end will have one conversation while the remaining three people will have a separate discussion.

This is not unlike your team. You may come together often to meet and talk as a larger group, but the majority of the discussions come in smaller subsets.

We encourage you to replicate that dinner conversation pattern at work with the imapMyTeam reports.

The next step is engaging in conversation.

Just like what happens at the dinner table, engage the one, two or three people that you regularly interact with and with whom it is important that you work well with. You are already talking to them all the time anyway. Take your working together to a new level and jump start your conversation with one of the imapMyTeam reports.  Have everyone print it and talk about what it means to them.

Conversation allows people to personalize the information in the reports so you can hear it directly from them. That will help you make better use of it. After talking about the report, use the Notes function to capture any key personal insights.

Involving your teammates in conversation is powerful. Take 15 minutes to take your relationships to the next step.