Unscripted Group Conversations
An experiment in listening, open conversation, and the experience of respect and trust.
Let’s Talk
As I have mentioned previously, I am initiating an expansion of The Eddy Network Podcast approach.
The Eddy Network Podcast approach is comprised of two principles.
Networking - I interview people who have been introduced to me by someone that I know. Those people whom I reach out to directly have something specific about who they are that attracts me to want to have a conversation with them.
One hour. No Agenda. No Prep. - This approach to making it easy for people to speak with me on the podcast came to be understood as a strategy of Unscripted Conversation. And so it is.
Unscripted Group Conversations
I am planning for two types of group conversations.
Type One: a random group.
Type Two: a select group because of some aspect of their life and work that they share.
Type One will take place on the last Thursday of every month at 11:30 am EST-US/UTC-5. These group conversations are offered to paid subscribers of my The Future of Leadership Substack.
Two Type Two groups are scheduled to be recorded this month. They, too, are going to be available only to paid subscribers of my Substack.
A new mailing list for paid subscribers is how we communicate.
The Purpose
Dating back to the beginning of my consulting practice in the mid-1990s, it was apparent to me that the capacity of people to enter into conversation within professional and work contexts was limited. Relationships tended to be transactional and, thereby, competitive in a manner that eroded the collaborative nature of work teams. The signal for me was the lack of respect and trust.
It was also apparent to me that this was not a product of a lack of training but rather how organizations functioned. People advanced by undercutting and diminishing the leverage of other people within the organizations. The result was a difficulty in being able to change, be agile, or innovate through times of chaos.
Unscripted conversations are a starting point for learning how to talk with each other. It is not the Holy Grail of community building in organizations. There are other methodologies that serve that purpose. One of the Type Two groups is focused on these strategies. I look forward to our conversation later this month.
The purpose, therefore, is to provide an experience of conversation that provides a guide and the inspiration for deepening the capacity of groups in our lives to communicate and collaborate better.
Hi Ed .... please send the invite 🙏