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Practising Presence
Research indicates that in 80% of your conversations, your focus is not entirely on the conversation, and thus you are not fully present.
Attention and presence are directly correlated. Your attention determines what you perceive, learn and remember and how you interact with others, amongst other things. Attention can only be used in the moment, here and now and is partial to distraction.
We become distracted by all sorts of things. Distractions are the things that prevent us from being fully present in conversations, yet it is the one thing you can change that will transform your conversations.
Presence is a coaching intelligence core competency, and it begins with you and only you.
Reframing Your Conversations
Last week, I worked with a leadership team of an organisation in a state of growth. Several new staff and new initiatives are being introduced. And - there are pockets of resistance.
Leaders find themselves having what they termed difficult conversations. We were learning how to have better conversations. That is having conversations and creating conversational spaces that meet the needs of all participants. The first step was to rebrand the conversation - from difficult to important.
Sit with that one for a bit.