Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations That Matter
Being clear also means digging deeper, never settling for the first answer you get. Digging deeper means exploring what truth lies beneath the surface, beyond the rush of the present moment. Often,
Will Wise • Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations That Matter
Outcome-Focused: Your intention is dictated by the intended results.
Will Wise • Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations That Matter
Clarity of intention is about examining the story you are telling yourself and how you are communicating that story to others. Sharing your honest intention means fully understanding the following: what you are aiming for what your purpose is what you plan to achieve
Will Wise • Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations That Matter
Perhaps the most important lesson is that people want to be heard and understood. It may be the highest calling of our humanity.
Will Wise • Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations That Matter
The words Intention, Rapport, Openness, Listening, and Empathy can describe one Pyramid face. Rotate the Pyramid and you can use the following statements to describe the layers as well: I am willing to know you, I see you, I hear you, I get you, and I feel with you.
Will Wise • Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations That Matter
Future-Focused: Your intention is about how you want the world to exist.
Will Wise • Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations That Matter
clarity. I have found that intention can be focused in three ways
Will Wise • Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations That Matter
Antidote: Be clear, true, and complete The antidote to a world of manipulation is to have a clear intention and share it.
Will Wise • Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations That Matter
I intend to shift my conversations so that I’m not listening to win, to interject, or to prove something but to listen to understand. I intend to create a peaceful community. I intend to live in a world where everyone belongs.