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Quick Hits are 10-minute conversations designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to hear other people‘s thoughts on a variety of subjects. In February of 2021 I and the members of my mastermind group thought other people might enjoy listening in on some of the lively conversations we were having. But we realized that no one was going spend 90-minutes listening to us going on about anything and sometimes nothing. Instead, we decided to pick one topic and have a short conversation to share. I took the reigns because facilitating those types of conversations sounded like fun. Over the course of a few months it grew from just members of our mastermind group to four (sometimes three if schedules go sideways) people from various parts of the world and from ”short” to exactly 10-minutes. Thus was born ”Quick Hits” hosted by me, Dr Robyn. I hope to get caught up with posting them here on PodBean at some point. As of this writing, I have over 100 ”episodes.” If you‘d like to see the videos of these conversations, they are available on my YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/DrRobynQuickHits If you have a topic you‘d like to hear discussed, I encouraged you to use the contact page of my website: https://drrobynodegaard.com/ to let me know.
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Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
I looked up “manipulation” on dictionary.com and it said, ‘the act of manipulating someone’ — Clearly their grade school teacher didn’t tell them you can’t use the word to define itself.
You might be accused of being manipulative when in fact you're only maintaining boundaries and arguing for your position.
To help find a definition, I turned to my insightful and intellectually generous guests on this edition of Quick Hits.
Learning and Development Executive Dr. Hannah Hartwell defined manipulation as “harmful influence. You’re leveraging the mental and emotional sides of somebody else to get what you want.”
Stewart Wiggins, a fractional COO at Induna Advisers, noted that manipulation “can be used as a positive if you project it as a positive. I’ve been in leadership roles before where people indirectly reported to me. I had to lead those people through influence. We all had to accomplish the same goal, but because they didn’t report directly to me, I had to influence them to achieve that goal.”
Tim Hawkes, Managing Director of Unlimited Potential, warned that the danger of manipulation is that you can never be sure when it’s happening to you. “If you get mugged in the street, your first thought isn’t, ‘Oh I’ve been mugged.’ Your first thought is, ‘I feel terrible. What am I going to do?’ Then you come away half an hour later and somebody might say, ‘Man, you’ve been mugged.’ And you’ll know that’s what happened. I think it’s the same for manipulation.”
How would you define manipulation? Maybe more importantly, how do you know if you are manipulating someone or if they are manipulating you? (that Quick Hits will be posted tomorrow)
Connect with the panelists:
Tim Hawkes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhawkes/
Stewart Wiggins: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stewart-wiggins/
Dr Hannah Hartwell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrhartwell/
Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/
Want a summary of the Quick Hits I post every week, plus the links to the LinkedIn pages of each of the panelist to show up in your in-box every week? Just let me know where to send it: https://drrobynodegaard.com/quick-hits-notifications/
#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on pertinent subjects. If you would like to join a conversation or have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me. https://www.DrRobynOdegaard.com
#Manipulation #Influence #Negotiation
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