Connection Before Content with Linwood Paul & Matt D'Amour of Subtle Distinctions
Today, you’ll hear from Linwood Paul and Matt D’Amour about why you should place connection before content when starting a conversation, either in a professional setting or in your private life.
Together, Linwood and Matt are Subtle Distinctions, a business that offers integrative coaching for individuals, business leaders, and their teams. They help others make great decisions, exceed their goals, and create intentional impact. In this episode, Linwood and Paul shed light on the importance of creating connections with those around you, instead of chasing content, agenda, and objectives. They offer insight as to how we have become so attuned to the “new normal,” and gently remind you that people crave connection with others. Find out what the modern meeting looks like, and how you can make small changes to the way you approach them.
By setting aside a small amount of time, you are able to connect with friends, family, and peers without being concerned about missing deadlines. For all this and much more, be sure to tune into this special episode!
Key Points From This Episode:
An introduction to Linwood Paul and Matt D’Amour from Subtle Distinctions.
The show opens with connection-content role play session.
Find out what connection-before-content really means.
How you can go about creating intentional connections.
How connection is built into your heart and nervous system.
Matt challenges listeners to see what their natural tendencies are in their professional and personal environments.
Lessons taken from Oprah Winfrey’s more than 36,000 interviews.
Linwood explains how the “new normal” is impacting your connections.
Matt describes what could be going on in many meetings.
How to approach connection when you’re worried about the receiver.
Hear why connection before content is a quality tip-off.
Linwood touches on the word “suffering.”
Tweetables:
“We are all so busy and all so stressed that it feels like we don’t have that time to slow down and check in, and that whole half-a-meeting would be wasted if weren’t productive during that time.” — Linwood Paul [0:08:22]
“Connection before content is just what it says. It’s connecting before we dive into the agenda and tasks.” — Matt D’Amour [0:02:00]
“It might be that the connection piece is built into our heart and nervous system — we just get overruled by the to-do list.” — Linwood Paul [0:04:01]
“People are craving connection, so I think it’s important that everyone find a way in whatever platform they are engaging with, and really create intentional connection.” — Matt D’Amour [0:02:28]
“We have to really decide and take back what our natural tendency is — the natural tendency these days might be content, content, content, get it done, get it done, get it done.” — Linwood Paul [0:06:55]
“Everyone just wants to be seen and heard, and when you connect with that, that’s huge.” — Matt D’Amour [0:06:16]
“That’s a quality tip-off — when you are dealing with people who connect before content, that’s a certain quality and it tips the person off, ‘That’s who I’m dealing with here.’” — Linwood Paul [0:10:34]
“Some people say, ‘I don’t have the time,’ and others say, ‘We don’t make the time,’ and that might be the fairest thing about life: everybody gets 24/7. We all check in and we all check out.” — Matt D’Amour [0:14:35]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Subtle Distinctions
Linwood Paul on LinkedIn
Matt D’Amour on LinkedIn
Oprah Winfrey
Michael Jackson
Barack Obama
Clint Eastwood
