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Are you really
listening?
Sarah Kelly and Leo Allen
How to communicate better with your
workmates
Why is communication
important?
Agile provides us with opportunities to
communicate,
but doesn’t tell us how to communicate
“Teams can't function effectively if communication is not
kept flowing, fears acknowledged, anger discharged, joy
shared”
Kent Beck
How do we become better communicators?
What is empathy?
“The ability to understand and share the
feelings of another” OED 2017
We can think of empathy as a kind of
feeling-with
Empathy enables collaboration and
cooperation which helps bring
individuals into communities
We can think of empathy as a kind of
feeling-with and a reaching-toward
What tools are
there?
● Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
● Active Listening
● 360° feedback
● Mindfulness
● Embodiment practices
● Sociocracy
● “Yes, and”
Nonviolent
Communication
(NVC)Developed by Marshall Rosenberg
Collaborative
Communication
Developed by Marshall Rosenberg
But I’m not a violent
communicator!
Nonviolent
Communication
(NVC)
1. Empathetic listening to self - what are
my needs?
2. Empathetic listening to another - what
are your needs?
3. Honest expression of self and needs to
another - how can we communicate our
needs?
Four step
process
1. Observations
2. Feelings
3. Needs
4. Request
Observations
What am I hearing?
What am I seeing?
Feelings
How does this situation make me/you
feel?
Needs
What are my needs?
What are your needs?
Requests
What concrete actions would you
take?
When could we use
this?
“Criticism and blame lead us away from
getting our needs met”
Chade-Meng Tan
Four step
process
1. Observations
2. Feelings
3. Needs
4. Request
Observations
What are you hearing?
What are you seeing?
Feelings
How does this situation make you
feel?
Needs
What are your needs?
Requests
What concrete actions would you
take?
How would you
communicate this?
Requests
“When I see...”
Needs
Feelings
Observatio
ns
“I feel...”
“Because I need...”
“So would you be
willing to…?”
Would I really use it?
Nonviolent
Communication
(NVC)
1. Empathetic listening to self - what are
my needs?
2. Empathetic listening to another - what
are your needs?
3. Honest expression of self and needs to
another - how can we communicate our
needs?
Any questions?
Thanks!
Leo Allen
leo.f.allen@gmail.com
@leoallen85
Sarah Kelly
sarahelizakelly@gmail.com
www.sarahelizakelly.com

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How to communicate better with your workmates using non-violent communication

Editor's Notes

  1. Sarah, start with a mini game Leo welcome
  2. Ask the crowd
  3. Complex environments - comms is key Waterfall, plan everything upfront, in theory no need for coms! Agile: small tight loops, individuals interactions, feedback ensures that we can change and improve quickly The end of these loops is retros, we also have standups etc. but...
  4. Retros 1:1s just opportunities “The smooth running of an Agile project relies on the smooth expression of emotions.”
  5. Kent Beck (agile signatory) goes further than says says In environment where frustrated at the poor clarity of the code your team produces Don’t express frustration: disillusioned, work less well, maybe less clarity in your code too Voice that frustration, you’ll feel better, but also an opportunity for the code to improve and everyone to be happier BUT HOW? Sarah: We need specific tools, skills, frameworks And we need to cultivate PRACTICE
  6. EMPATHY!
  7. Lots of tools/frameworks to help us structure our communication in this way
  8. Sarah intro
  9. Resolve conflicts But for us it’s more bring up difficult things
  10. I’ll do the grey bits, sarah does the rest
  11. This can be done when thinking about your own feelings/needs or another.
  12. Sarah, start with a mini game
  13. Sarah, start with a mini game More here http://www.cnvc.org/Training/feelings-inventory
  14. Sarah, start with a mini game
  15. Most of the needs are more to the top There’s others too but this is a good start More here https://www.cnvc.org/Training/needs-inventory
  16. Sarah, start with a mini game
  17. 1:1/Mediation/Retro/Bringing up “difficult stuff”/Talking to a client Volunteer - what would you do? You’d complain at the pub right?
  18. Former Jolly Good Fellow at Google, helping their employees communicate
  19. This can be done when thinking about your own feelings/needs or another. We could spend an entire day on
  20. Sarah, start with a mini game
  21. Sarah, start with a mini game More here http://www.cnvc.org/Training/feelings-inventory
  22. Sarah, start with a mini game
  23. Most of the needs are more to the top There’s others too but this is a good start More here https://www.cnvc.org/Training/needs-inventory
  24. Sarah, start with a mini game
  25. 1:1/Mediation/Retro/Bringing up “difficult stuff”/Talking to a client Volunteer - what would you do? You’d complain at the pub right?
  26. I’ll do the grey bits, sarah does the rest
  27. “Stop NVCing me”
  28. I’ll do the grey bits, sarah does the rest
  29. 1:1 Mediation Retro Bringing up “difficult stuff” Talking to a client
  30. More? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=6iDMuB6NjNA https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/develop/cpd/trainers-tips-active-listening-exercises