Is an interview a Crucial Conversation?
Saturday, May 24, 2008 20:19
This week I’ve attended training on Crucial Conversation conducted by a US based company, VitalSmarts. During the training, I was taught on how to use some tools for talking when stakes are high. Surprisingly, VitalSmarts introduced a very simple concept but practically not so easy to practise but once mastered, it will definitely help anyone to achieve whatever they want.
In CMS, interview is actually a conversation between a job seeker with their potential employer. By VitalSmarts definition, a conversation will become crucial when the topic of conversation involved different opinions, strong emotions and the stake or impact is high. If any of these are missing then it is just a normal conversation or a chit chat.
So based on this definition, is an interview a crucial conversation?
I’ll stop here for your comments. Tomorrow I’ll be sharing my thoughts.
Looking forward for your comments.
Regards
Yusoff
farrah says:
May 24th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
i think it’s depend to the situation.Most of the time the candidate always play safe
so the interview session will always be neutral.Looking foward for you o share some of your experience and thoughts
Yusoff says:
May 24th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Thanks Farrah for your inputs.
Interview can be a crucial conversation depending on how both the candidate and future employer handles it. If both are expecting positive outcome from the interview, then maybe strong emotions will come in if the outcome ends up negative. I’ll be sharing more tomorrow.