How to Design Conversations that Matter
Good Talk teaches anyone to learn which conversations matter, how to transform those conversations, and balance them all while leading change.
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Take a moment and collect all of the crucial conversations in your work and life. Think of the big conversations you’re building and the small ones. Gather up those happening inside and outside of your organization...and inside and outside of yourself. How many conversations are there? What are you focusing on? What’s working? What needs to shift?
To lead change, make an impact, and communicate well with others, Daniel presents a framework to keep all of the important conversations on track and provides tools to reframe what’s missing and confusing.
Nine Conversations is a holistic approach to designing conversations that make an impact and create lasting change.
PART ONE: Why Conversations Matter
Introduction: Why Conversations Matter When You’re Leading Change
When you’re leading change, there are a million different conversations to track. There are conversations you can have and those you *can’t* have. But to launch new ideas into the world, we have to get good at bringing up uncomfortable topics at the dinner table. This chapter will discuss why conversations matter and how to become aware of the conversations in our lives.
Chapter 1: Seeing the Structure of Conversations
Life is built one messy, slippery conversation at a time. While conventional wisdom tells us that many conversations in our lives can’t be “win-win,” Daniel will focus on holistic, continuing conversations where ”winning” isn’t a perspective. Hardball tactics and a “zero-sum mindset” result in broken relationships and dishonest behavior. Daniel instead will discuss the theory of conversation, and the structure of conversations using current science and technology, weaving stories from Google’s Conversation Design Principles, Cybernetic theory and Psychological research. He’ll also discuss conversations that take place within systems and explore why a team is a conversation of its own.
Part TWO: How Do Conversations Work?
Chapter 2: The Conversation OS
Before Daniel gets into the different kinds of conversations, he’ll take time to break apart his Conversation Operating System, which serves as a toolset for how to change, shift, and transform conversations. This chapter will serve as a handbook to the key components and levers of change in conversations: Invitation, Threading, Turn-Taking, Cadence, Repair, Goals and Agreements, Interface and Space, People, Power and Gender.
Part THREE: Which Conversations Matter?
Chapter 3: The Conversation with Self
Put your own oxygen mask on before helping others. The conversation with ourselves is the most important and often the most overlooked. Our internal conversation can sometimes look like a still small voice and other times appear as a giant inner critic. How we handle this conversation, though, is what unconsciously guides and affects all of our other conversations. Daniel will use research and stories to discuss this important shift in focus.
Chapter 4: The Conversation with Others
“We need to talk” is quite possibly the most terrifying text or phrase to be on the receiving end of. What are we saying to each other in our one-on-one conversations? This chapter will explore dialogue between two people, what shapes these specific conversations, the different levels of listening, and what it really means to be present with someone else.
Chapter 5: The Conversation with your Team
Daniel started his conversation design work as a facilitator for groups and teams, brought in to coach Fortune 500 companies to help them change their conversations and make better decisions. In this chapter, Daniel will break down the dynamics of a team and how decisions are made. He’ll use the Conversation OS to provide frameworks for teams to transform their conversations and their work.
Chapter 6: The Conversation with your Community
Communities populate our lives with new ideas, information, experience, and perspective. Without healthy communities, we’re not growing. Being a part of a community is a constant conversation but too often we only activate our communities when we need them, which is too late. In this chapter, Daniel will explore the conversations within a community and the frameworks to sustain a healthy relationship with the people around us.
Part FOUR: Four Connecting Conversations
Chapter 7: Reflection and Introspection
As we interact with the world around us we are often confronted with the thoughts, opinions, and beliefs of others and what they mean for our own lives. The conversations that happen between ourselves and others require us to make a decision about how we process the information we’re faced with. Daniel suggests three options for dealing with these conversations: to absorb, to let it bounce off of you, or to allow it to go through you. Having this conversation with yourself is essential to interact with the people around you in a healthy way.
Chapter 8: Curating Mentorship and Cultivating Coaching
As our communities deepen, it’s our work to develop ongoing one-on-one relationships that matter with those in our community conversation. When we need a broader perspective or deeper insight, a community becomes a trusted resource. We’re able to ask for help fill the gap, trust someone to help us with our challenge, and develop an ongoing relationship with them. This chapter will explore how these conversations develop and how to navigate the dynamics of mentorship and coaching to get the best out of these relationships.
Chapter 9: Facilitation and Leadership: Self to Team
Facilitating a conversation and leading others in a team requires an adaptive conversation that blends the conversation with yourself and the conversation with a team. This chapter will examine how to facilitate a team through frameworks like the design thinking process to develop a natural cadence between ourselves and our teams. Through research, narrative, and tools like the hero’s journey, Daniel will weave a powerful framework for facilitation.
Chapter 10: Offering Design: Team to Community
When we’re creating something to offer to the world, we must blend our team conversations with our community conversations to cultivate trust and vulnerability. To create something that the world wants and needs, our teams must engage in conversations with the community to build something that matters to them. How can teams invite communities into a conversation to learn from them in a transformative way? This chapter will explore the tools and structure of a healthy team to community conversation, pulling on frameworks like the Agile Manifesto, the Lean Startup movement and the Business Model Canvas
PART FIVE: Big Conversations
Chapter 11: The Containing Conversation: Culture and Organization
How do we exist within structures that set rules and expectations for behavior and yet continue to challenge the larger conversation from the inside? This chapter will discuss big conversations we’re a part of in our culture and organizations and how to lead change in these larger conversations.
Chapter 12: Adaptive Balance: Harmonizing All Conversations
Our days are all-encompassing, never so singular or narrow that they only contain one type of conversation. But which conversations are important enough to get our attention? Which are we focusing on? This chapter will explore what it looks like to have an adaptive balance of all the conversations. Daniel will use research, stories, and illustrations to explain this balance of focus.
Chapter 13: A Theory of Change
Change can be hard. In order to change big, small, and adaptive conversations, we must be committed to a theory of change. How do we integrate the ideas and tools we’ve learned throughout the book into our lives so they visibly impact and last? Through research and narrative, Daniel will explore how to create a pull movement instead of pushing change.
Conclusion: The Impact of Big and Small Conversations
Why does changing our conversations matter in the end? How do our small conversations add up and how can we create real impact in the big, cultural conversations? Change can’t be installed or implemented, it’s grown and developed organically. In concluding, Daniel will revisit and encourage readers in the importance of taking ownership over every conversation in our daily lives. This chapter will include research, anecdotes, and Daniel’s personal story to illustrate the influence of our conversations.
While everyone needs to shape conversations for the better, in every area of their lives, the primary audience for Nine Conversations are working professionals aged 25-55 who are attracted to the idea of leading innovative change in an organization and looking for tools to build conversations that facilitate these big changes.
These readers most likely work at fortune 1000 companies, high growth startups, or similar environments and have responsibilities to facilitate, lead, and implement ideas. Communication is vital to their day to day as well as their big picture focus. In facing these changes and challenges they might ask themselves, “Where do I start?” and “Am I enough to make these changes?”
They’re reading books like: Conversations that Matter and Radical Candor and are looking for ways to combine meaningful conversations with deep changes in their lives and the organizations they’re a part of.
New research shows that the idea of designing thinking and designing different aspects of one’s life have boomed over the last 15 years. In 2006, Tim Ferriss launched The Four Hour Workweek and introduced the broad market to the term “Lifestyle Design” that has since attracted millions of readers and listeners to his podcast. Debbie Millman, a prominent artist and designer launched a podcast in 2005 called “Design Matters,” that focused on designing a different culture, which became one of iTunes top podcasts along with hundreds of thousands of downloads. In the same sense, Stillman approaches a proven market with the idea that for these listeners looking to lead change, designing conversations is essential and pivotal.
In addition to following these thought leaders, readers belong to innovative communities like: appreciative inquiry community, nonviolent communication community, org design forums, ETC.
With over 33.8 million people working in these Fortune 1000 companies, looking to be heard, understood, and change the conversation, the audience for this book is eager for the tools to reboot their Conversation OS and rethink conversations in all aspects of their lives.
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Hey Daniel! Glad you see you're doing well and creating some awesome stuff. I'd love to stay in touch and find a time to connect after your campaign. All the best!
So excited to read the book! Design Thinking has been a game changer for me, and I can’t wait to see how conversations will change.
Congrats on your book! Looking forward to it!
I can't wait to see what conversations this book ignites!
Can’t wait! Gonna share around my team.
Looking forward to reading the book, Daniel - Congratulations!
Thanks for sharing, Daniel!
Forever a fan.
Excited for this book! Your idea are always so fresh and useful. I know you've put a lot of time, experience, mastery, and thought into the material in this book. Congrats!
You all are awesome! Thanks for the support!
Congratulations Daniel on the book!! Looking forward to reading, learning, and practicing. :)
Daniel,
Cannot wait to read the book! You ROCK!
All the best with your book Daniel !! Regards Swami
Congrats, Dan!
Congratulations! I know your work from conversations and meetings going way, way back (the 90s!) and I can't wait to read the book.
Can not wait to read this! I could definitely use help.
Excited to read this and share!
Heard about your book from Jim Kalbach!
So excited!
Daniel, you're my hero and I'll always buy anything you're selling
Can’t wait to read it!
So glad I happened upon your stuff in a desperate internet search! Hope you found a partnership with NUMA NYC, hit us up if you're ever coming to Mexico City!
Looking forward to checking this out!
bring it on!
Look forward to reading the e-book. Sounds very interesting.
impatient to read you
Heard about this project from Kellie! Excited to learn more!
Hi Daniel, conversations absolutely do matter and congratulations on launching this book! I really look forward to reading it and putting some of the ideas into practice. All the best.
Learned of you and your work via the Mural webinar today (8/15) - fascinating stuff! Listened to your conversation with Jim Kalbach last night. Thanks for all the new ideas to brighten and enlighten communication. Looking forward to the book!
Carol Kramme
(carol.kramme@gmail.com)
this is awesome!
Looking forward to this!
...rootin' for you!
YAHOO!
Congrats! So excited -- thank you for the opportunity to support your continued successes :)
I watched your webinar on MURAL and I agree completely that the quality of our life depends on the quality of the conversations that we have.
Congratulations on your progress to date!
I admire your work, Cousin!
Saw/heard your Mural webinar and was intrigued - looking forward to the book!
Got one!
cannot wait to see it published!
Hi, will we receive the book soon?
$11
50 readers
You don't have time for physical books! You travel light.
You'll receive your very own professionally designed ebook (PDF and Kindle)
You ALSO get exclusive access to updates and an invite to join my slack community.
Includes:
$20
61 readers
You'll get a real live book! Plus a digital copy! Amazing.
You ALSO get exclusive access to updates and an invite to join my private slack community.
Includes:
$40
16 readers
Two books, for you and a friend to dive deep together! (you’ll also get the professionally designed ebook)
Plus, you'll get a complete set of digital PDF templates from the Conversation Factory Library. Together, they’ll help you dig into rebooting your conversations together. (a $30 value)
You ALSO get exclusive access to updates and an invite to join my private slack community.
Includes:
$100
5 readers
Five books, for you to start a conversation circle.
Plus, you'll get a complete set of digital PDF templates from the Conversation Factory Library
Plus a set of PDF activity templates from the book. Together, this Complete Set will help you dig into re-imagining your conversations together. (a $30 value)
Plus, you'll receive a PDF of my ebook "The 30 Second Elephant and the Paper Airplane Experiment" a book of Origami exercises I use to help teams transform their collaboration. (a $15 value)
You ALSO get exclusive access to updates and an invite to join my private slack community.
Includes:
$300
1 reader
You get 15 copies of the Physical +Digital Book
Plus 60 minutes of Coaching on the Conversation Design Challenge of your choice (a $350 value): A Facilitation Challenge, Organizational Shift or crucial conversion you want help rethinking...or anything else!
Plus, you'll get a Complete Set of digital PDF templates to help you dig into transforming your conversations at work and in yourself. (a $30 value)
Plus PDF copies of my ebook "the 30 Second Elephant and the Paper Airplane Experiment" a book of Origami exercises I use to help teams transform their collaboration. (a $15 value)
You ALSO get exclusive access to updates and an invite to join my private slack community.
Includes:
$400
1 reader
You get 20 copies of the Physical +Digital Book!
You'll also get access to my video library - 18 videos where I break down the lessons in the book (a $400 Value)
Plus 60 minutes of Coaching on the Conversation Design Challenge of your choice (a $350 value): A Facilitation Challenge, Organizational Shift or crucial conversion you want help rethinking...or anything else!
Plus, you'll get a Complete Set of digital PDF templates to help you dig into transforming your conversations at work and in yourself. (a $30 value)
Plus PDF copies of my ebook "the 30 Second Elephant and the Paper Airplane Experiment" a book of Origami exercises I use to help teams transform their their collaboration. (a $15 value)
You ALSO get exclusive access to updates and an invite to join my private slack community.
Includes:
$500
1 reader
25 copies the physical and digital book
You’ll also get a complimentary ticket to a Facilitation Master Class (a $1000 value) in NYC or the SF area
Plus 60 minutes of Coaching on the Conversation Design Challenge of your choice (a $350 value): A Facilitation Challenge, Organizational Shift or crucial conversion you want help rethinking...or anything else!
Plus, you'll get a complete set of digital PDF templates to help you dig into transforming your conversations at work and in yourself. (a $30 value)
Plus PDF copies of my ebook "the 30 Second Elephant and the Paper Airplane Experiment" a book of Origami exercises I use to help teams transform their their collaboration. (a $15 value)
You ALSO get exclusive access to updates and an invite to join my private slack community.
Includes:
$1000
1 reader
You'll get 50 copies of the book to help start the conversation transformation at your organization.
We will also schedule a 60 minute lunch-and-learn, in person in NYC or remote (50 people maximum!)
++ Reward valued at $2500
We'll cover the essentials of the Conversation OS Canvas and your team will leave with some actionable group facilitation tools and perspectives on shifting day-to-day conversations.
You'll also have your name and/or your organization’s name in the book as a Sponsor!
Plus, you'll get a complete set of digital PDF templates to help you dig into transforming your conversations at work and in yourself. (a $30 value)
Plus PDF copies of my ebook "the 30 Second Elephant and the Paper Airplane Experiment" a book of Origami exercises I use to help teams transform their their collaboration. (a $15 value)
You ALSO get exclusive access to updates and an invite to join my private slack community.
Includes:
$1500
1 reader
You'll get 75 copies of the book, and plant the seeds of a company transformation with a half-day intensive at your offices in NYC, or anywhere in the world (travel expenses not included) for up to 20 people.
You'll also have your name and/or your organizations name in the book as Silver Level Sponsor!
We can reboot your collaboration skills, facilitation skills or design thinking mastery.
**reward valued at $2500
Includes:
$2000
0 readers
You'll get 100 copies of the book, and jump start a revolution with an interactive keynote at your offices in NYC, or anywhere in the world (travel expenses not included)
For up to 100 people, who will leave energized, informed and ready to start transforming conversations throughout your organization.
**reward valued at $5000
You'll also have your name and/or your organizations name in the book as Gold Level Sponsor!
We can reboot your collaboration skills, facilitation skills or design thinking mastery.
Plus, you'll get a complete set of digital PDF templates to help you dig into transforming your conversations at work and in yourself. (a $30 value)
Plus PDF copies of my ebook "the 30 Second Elephant and the Paper Airplane Experiment" a book of Origami exercises I use to help teams transform their their collaboration. (a $15 value)
You ALSO get exclusive access to updates and an invite to join my private slack community.
Includes:
$4000
1 reader
You'll get 200 copies of the book and we'll also schedule a full-day workshop at your offices in NYC, or anywhere in the world (travel expenses not included)
**reward valued at $10,000
For up to 20 people, who will leave energized, informed and ready to start transforming conversations throughout your organization. Participants will receive follow-on group coaching at 30, 60 and 90 days as they spread their new perspectives with their peers.
We can focus your team’s collaboration skills, facilitation skills or design thinking mastery. Customized workshops or workshops focused on rebooting a company challenge (rethinking a product, service or strategy) is also available for an additional fee.
You'll also have your name and/or your organization’s name in the book as Platinum Level Sponsor!
Includes:
on July 31, 2018, 8:01 p.m.
Excited!