And for leaders, there's a benefit to watching out for, and supporting psychological diversity on the team.~Mark Petruzzi
Last Wednesday, on the first day of the Brilliant Leadership workshop, we were working with a concept I call “Psychological Diversity.” This is the idea (astonishing, I know) that we each quite literally perceive reality in our own way.
Sure, we share some similarities in our perceptions and belief-systems, otherwise, any communication would prove impossible. But the sad truth is, we don’t always communicate so well at all, because we fail to take into account the wonderful diversity of perception and communication styles out there—and too often in the very person or persons right across from us.
And when we’re conscious of this diversity, the difference can prove irritating at first.
Everyone has had the experience of feeling like the other person is “too sensitive” or “too hard-ass” or “too pie-in-the-sky” or “too literal” or “to rigid,” or, or…