Communication is everything. Whether in the bustling entrepreneurial business venture or in the hustling couple adventure of love, co-partners naturally develop and follow rules of conduct. Especially when times are tense, these rules help everyone to keep a calm head and everyone in the team canoe paddling sanely in the same direction. With rules, people know what to say and do when feeling bad. Without rules, canoeists might end up hitting one another over the head with paddles.
RULES FOR CONDUCT AS CO-LEADERS
Two brothers of a leading entrepreneurial company in the Dayton region co-created a set of rules for conduct that work for the betterment of all. These type of “lead your own life” rules for “conscious living” lead to effective and positive communication and produce the results of peaceful co-existence and mutual prosperity.
Rule #1: BEING ON TIME. Each of us is response-able for being on “our time”…to show up to paddle the canoe together at the appointed hour.
Rule #2: NO SLAMS OR PUT DOWNS. Each of us is response-able to eliminate negative verbal slams or non-verbal put-offs and put-downs when we feel frustrated by a lack of progress.
Rule #3: SKIP GIVING PAYBACKS. Each of us is response-able to forego “an eye for an eye” paybacks that cause melodrama and pain and blind everyone.
Rule #4: TO BE RESPECTFUL. Each of us is response-able to treat one another respectfully…in ways that we wish to be treated.
Rule #5: TO WALK IN DIGNITY. Each of us is response-able to carry the self in ways that promote kindness, caring and dignity for the difficulties of our mutual work, and the strains of working together as a team.
Rule #6: CHANGE WHAT ISN’T WORKING. Each of us is response-able to discontinue doing what divides us, causes unnecessary anger, and keeps us doing the “same old same old” that isn’t working.
Rule #7: PUT ENERGY INTO THE RELATIONSHIP. Each of us is response-able to put energy into studying effective communication approaches and skills that get the job done and make each partner feel valued and valuable.
OPEN COMMUNICATION CHANGES THE WAY YOU APPROACH LIFE
In the “Talk to Me” communication system, participants who use these new talk principles a few minutes every day report, “I’ve changed the way I approach life!” Pretty powerful commentary coming from leaders at work or home of remarkable character and caliber. The system strikes a chord with most, as my “live” keynotes and seminars prove.
TEAM CANOE
When you combine the respective strengths of the Empathizer-type communicator style AND the Instigator-type communicator style, you will paddle to new places in your “team canoe” that you could never dream of possible.
ABOUT DR. DENNIS O’GRADY
Dr. Dennis O’Grady is the developer of the “Talk to Me” communication system that adds energy, better mood, self-worth, effective communication and problem-solving rules to our valued business and family systems. His latest book on communication is called, “Talk to Me: Communication Moves to Get Along with Anyone.” O’Grady is a keynote speaker, corporate and leadership communications consultant, and leads “seriously funny” training programs in positive and effective communication skills in the workplace.