learning conversation rev 1b
TRANSCRIPT
A. Beginning
B. Disclosing and Evaluating Your
Observations
1. Disclose the whole agenda
I want to tell you how I assessed your
performance, focusing on the things I
thought were strong and areas where I
think more progress is needed
2. Invite dialogue
There may be areas where we see things
differently. I want to hear your views,
especially where we disagree, so that I
can learn more about your views on
quality customer service
3. Offer support by sharing the responsibility
for improvement
One of the things I want to learn from this
conversation is how to help you achieve
the goals that come out of this
assessment
4. Check the agenda
Are you ready to start?
Do you want to add anything to the
agenda?
Are there any questions before we talk
about the assessment?
1. Summarise the observations you have
made that are relevant to a particular
heading
2. Disclose your evaluation of what you
have observed
This involves making a professional
judgment
Show how you reached that judgment,
especially if it is not obvious
Be open to other interpretations
2.
Say what you have noticed
Say what you make of it
Publicly check out your inference
I was troubled by the lack of customer
response because it may have given
you little feedback about whether the
customer understood the options
2. Did you find out what the customer
understood?
I was concerned about the telephone
interruption because I thought it might
lower your rapport with the customer.
What is your view on answering the
telephone when you are with a
customer?
3. Ask for the other’s reactions to your views
Value the reaction (paraphrase to check that you have understood).
Discover why the other reacts as she does. This gives both parties access to her implicit theory of practice
Welcome disagreement as an opportunity to learning and to counteract unequal power
3.
How do you feel about what I have said
so far?
How helpful is this so far?
You look like you see that differently. I’d
like to hear what you honestly think
4. Explore differences
Name what you agree and disagree
about
Check you have each understood the
basis of each others’ views
4.
How do you understand what I am saying about quality service? Note that the previous question is oriented towards discovering the implicit theories of practice used by the person.
A question such as “Do you understand what I am saying about quality customer service?” may not elicit the basis of the person’s views
5. Design ways of testing and exploring the
differences
Will more relevant data help?
Relate the differences to a shared theory
of effective professional practice
5.
So you are afraid that the customer
would shout at you if you tried to find out
more details?
How does referring the customer to the
manual promote quality customer
service
Beginning
1. Disclose the whole agenda
2. Invite dialogue
3. Offer support by sharing the
responsibility for improvement
4. Check the agenda
Disclosing and Evaluating Your Observations
1. Summarise the observations you have made that are relevant to a particular heading
2. Disclose your evaluation of what you have observed
3. Ask for the other’s reactions to your views
4. Explore differences
5. Design ways of testing and exploring the differences