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How to Tame Your Advice Monster

Discover how giving advice can backfire and learn a simple question that helps you stay curious, strengthen relationships, and overcome the urge to offer premature solutions.
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Overview

Discover how giving advice can backfire and learn a simple question that helps you stay curious, strengthen relationships, and overcome the urge to offer premature solutions.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to the Advice Monster
  • Understanding the Advice Monster concept
    The psychological impact of giving unsolicited advice
  • The Pitfalls of Giving Premature Advice
  • Common scenarios where advice backfires
    Negative effects on relationships and communication
  • Cultivating Curiosity
  • The importance of staying curious in conversations
    Techniques to maintain curiosity
  • A Powerful Question to Stay Curious
  • Identifying the right question to ask
    Role-playing exercises to practice asking questions
  • Strengthening Relationships through Active Listening
  • Fundamentals of active listening
    How listening transforms relationships
  • Overcoming the Urge to Offer Immediate Solutions
  • Techniques to resist offering solutions too early
    The role of patience in effective communication
  • Application of Skills in Real-Life Scenarios
  • Case studies: Avoiding the Advice Monster
    Group activities to practice skills learned
  • Creating a Personal Action Plan
  • Developing strategies to implement learnings
    Setting goals for future interactions
  • Course Conclusion and Certification
  • Reviewing key insights and learnings
    Final assessment and feedback session
    Issuing a certificate of completion

Subjects

Business