209 - Archive Spotlight: Listening Between the Lines, Curiosity and Communication with Dora Boussias

You're authentic as well.

And that that's, That's just, you can tell that's who you are.

You're very authentic and intentional.

And I can see why you're, you know, a great success because you offer that and you bring that.

Thank you.

You know, I want to say something about that.

These are impactful concepts, impactful words.

You know, we're talking about authenticity, for example, and we're talking about resilience and we're talking about communication.

Sometimes, too, you know, we take these things for granted.

So I want to be really clear here.

When we're saying be authentic, I don't mean pretend to be authentic.

I mean, be authentically authentic.

And that is not an easy thing for everyone because it may not come natural or it takes work.

Maybe that's not an easy thing because you really need to care for the other side and you really need to listen.

And resiliency, when something doesn't work, you really need to be consistent in trying to make it work until you get over the hump, if you will, and then you hit some critical mass and then things happen a lot faster.

I've said in the past, you know, to be authentically authentic.

Because if we say one thing, but we do a different thing, if the actions don't match the words, or if it's just a mechanical thing where we're just checking out boxes and we don't really mean it, it comes through.

So that too is not going to help in building the rapport, the trust, the credibility.

that itself helps with having a better collaborative relationship with our stakeholders and really making great things happen.

Because to me, that's fundamental.

That culture, the how we work together, the how we communicate with each other, the really being in it, present and working towards those common goals, before all the technical skills, before anything else, right? The technical operation or whatever it is, that to me, how we work with each other, how we treat each other, the culture part of it, the people and human aspects of organizations in my experience is most critical than anything else.