Doctor David Everett explores how leaders can practice healthy engagement with themselves and colleagues, contrasting vulnerability, invitational and confrontational styles and offering ways to communicate more constructively in professional settings.
Doctor David Everett: How do you engage with yourself and with colleagues? He says leaders need to think about how they come across in those engagement opportunities. Everett: Healthy engagement is the key and I wish you a healthy, engaged day.
Hello, I'm Doctor David Everett, and what I want you to begin to think about is how you engage. How do you engage with yourself? How do you engage with colleagues? How do you engage with coworkers, staff members? When we think about our level of engagement or the extent to which we engage, there are a number of ways that that manifests itself. We can be vulnerable, we can be invitational, we can be confrontational, we could be standoffish. One of the things that's really critical for leaders to learn is how they engage and how they come across in those engagement opportunities.
One of the words that I like to offer on a number of occasions is think about health. Healthy engagement is how we move all kinds of situations forward, not just in a personal level, but absolutely in a professional context as well. If you can remind yourself to think healthy, to communicate healthy, to come across as healthy, that will improve how others receive and react and respond to your opportunities to engage. As a leader, it is so super critical that we not necessarily come across from an emotional standpoint.
And what do I mean by emotional? Not that you can't have empathy, not that you can't show feelings, but what does it mean to really connect? What does it mean to really let your guard down and be vulnerable in ways that allow other folks to see who you are, where you're coming from, and hopefully moving forward, what you're trying to accomplish. So as a leader, think about how you engage, ways that that engagement comes across and what you can do to continue to move those conversations and those connection opportunities forward.
Healthy engagement is the key and I wish you a healthy, engaged day.
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