Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

The SECRET To Better Communication and Why 'Yes And' Just WORKS

4 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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This YouTube video (by Cameron Herold) explains the 'yes and' communication technique from improv: treat whatever your partner offers as a 'gift' and build on it rather than negating. Saying 'yes and' doesn't require full agreement but signals collaboration, enabling teams and culture to construct ideas together instead of blocking them.

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This is the whole concept of yes and which is you never want to negate what your partner gifts you. That's the way they talk about it. Like everything is a gift. Yeah. Because if you say no or you negate it, you can't go anywhere. You block them. Sure. But you say yes and doesn't mean you have to agree totally. But you're collaborating and building something together and culture wise and just communication team wise. It's so much better to do yes and rather than yes, but or no.