FIR #215: Alignment Through Conversation

You have a business initiative, an organizational change, a new value proposition. Success depends on getting employees aligned around the vision and the path to get there. Could small group conversations be the means of achieving that alignment? A new study suggests it’s at least worth a shot. ---- The next monthly, long-form episode of FIR will drop on Monday, October 17. We host a Communicators Zoom Chat each Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. For credentials needed to participate, contact Shel or Neville directly, request the credentials in our Facebook group, or email fircomments@gmail.com. Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music. You can find the stories from which Shel’s FIR content is selected at Shel’s Link Blog. Shel has started a metaverse-focused Flipboard magazine. Neville’s “asides” blog, Outbox, is also available. Links from this report: How to Change Minds? A Study Makes the Case for Talking It Out. (New York Times paywall) How consensus-building conversation changes our minds and aligns our brains Strategic Alignment: How Communicators Can Change the Face of Leadership