And here’s part 6 of the Transforming Communication interview:
…Richard: Absolutely! That’s what affects their motivation most of all. That’s what excites them. That’s what gets their juices running in the morning and makes them work productively. And the other thing is: when they are excited about cooperating together, they don’t get into that kind of longterm frustration that happens when they feel like: well, there’s someone in here who just doesn’t understand me, or there’s someone in here who, no matter what you say, they’re going to come down heavy on you, or something like that.
So, the range of places where we teach these skills is phenomenal; it covers pretty much every relationship that you could think of. I could give you examples from fairly much every sector of society. We train high school students themselves to use these skills. So that’s another way of applying it, it’s actually to teach children these skills from the age of around 10 or 12 onwards. And what a great thing because, as you listen to the things that I’m describing, I hope you would think: well, that must be pretty remedial, why don’t we get that when we are kids, why don’t we learn how to do this when we’re young enough so that we don’t have to sort of rebuild relationships after we’ve lost our first marriage, after we’ve lost our first team together, that kind of thing.
Michael: Is it technical or difficult to learn these techniques and strategies for communication?
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Find out in part 7 of the Transforming Communication interview…
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