Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication
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Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication
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Re: Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication
#2If you're in software development, especially on a development team, these ideas about nonviolent communication (NVC) may be able to help you and your team.
The approach is: observe facts -> note feelings -> uncover desires -> make requests.
For software development, I recommend a NVC approach called "Crucial Conversations". I summarize it on my repo.
https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/crucial_conversations
Re: Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication
#3the requests all sound very passive aggressive to me. eg, “ would you be willing to only eat the food that you buy?”
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#5the requests all sound very passive aggressive to me. eg, “ would you be willing to only eat the food that you buy?”
That's not passive aggressive. That's a direct ask, to your face, just worded softly.
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#6The book is great, highly recommend.
Anyone know where to get the NVC cards in Europe?
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#7I learned this at a company retreat at some point. We all kind of rolled our eyes and went along with the exercise. I now use it to great effect almost daily in both personal and professional relationships.
It takes a little care and thought to apply it well. I've found when done effectively, it can unlock difficult conversations and turn even the most hostile interactions into productive conversations. You are demonstrating, through a careful choice of words, a willingness to understand the other person.
Easily the most powerful communication tool I have learned while hungover with my coworkers.
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#8the requests all sound very passive aggressive to me. eg, “ would you be willing to only eat the food that you buy?”
What would you recommend a person in that situation say instead?
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#9I've read "Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life" and found it helpful in personal & work communication.
I _hate_ the name, though. I don't want to suggest to someone that they read about non-violent communication because that suggests they're being violent when they're not. I'd prefer almost any other name. Some better names: "observational communication", "non-judgmental communication", "empathetic communication", "structured communication". I could keep going...
Re: Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication
#10I've read "Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life" and found it helpful in personal & work communication. I _hate_ the name, though. I don't want to suggest to someone that they read about non-violent communication because that suggests they're being violent when they're not. I'd prefer almost any other name. Some better names: "observational communication", "non-judgmental communication", "empathetic communica…
If only she had consulted some marketing people before publishing the book! It might've been accepted by a larger audience.