Talk: Conversational Leadership

One of the main talks I give is on Conversational Leadership. The video below is a typical example.

Conversational Leadership is a style of working where you understand the transformative power of conversation and take a conversational approach to the way that you connect, relate, learn and work with other people.

— David Gurteen

As a Conversational Leader you:

1. Adopt conversational behaviors in your everyday work. In particular, connecting people and turning one-way communication into two-way conversations.
2. Become a conversational catalyst and purposefully nurture and stimulate the natural conversations that take place in your organization.
3. Encourage and help others to adopt the practices of conversational leadership.
4. Practice conversational methods such as peer assists, after-action reviews, and knowledge cafés.
5. Take on the role of conversational architect – identify the strategic conversations that need to take place in your organization; the questions to trigger them and design the processes to convene and host them.
6. Build communityship. Communityship is the process of social influence in which everyone in an organization exercises leadership; works together to increase engagement and helps build a strong social fabric to achieve their common goals.

A video taken at the European Commission Knowledge Week in Brussels, June 2018, of a talk I gave on Conversational leadership.