![]() ![]() I should probably do something about this. He approached the father to point out his lack of parenting in the moment the father lifted his head, looked dazedly around, and replied, “Oh, you’re right. Most people would say the children were misbehaving, and the author felt the same. As the father sat, head in hands, the children were noisy and running around. ![]() The author of that book wrote about his experience entering a NYC subway one late afternoon, at which time there was a father with his two children on the train. I learned my lesson in 1989, and I am so thankful that it came from a book rather than a real-life experience. More often, we blame the non-responder for not being accountable to their work and/or attentive to our relationship with them. I find myself coaching leaders to be aware of the meaning they assign to a reply not yet received, because the stories we tell ourselves often exclude understanding for the people we’re attempting to communicate with. For those who still write letters by hand, do you expect a reply, or are most of your hand-written letters and notes assumed to be a one-way communication? For example, we expect more immediacy from a text than a voice or email. We seem to have unconscious expectation of the expected reply time related to the method of communication used. ![]() Have you ever experienced not getting a reply in a timely manner? Maybe it’s a voicemail you left for someone several days ago, an unanswered email sent yesterday, or a text you sent this morning that remains unanswered or not replied to. ![]()
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