Opinions are important, as they provide a means to build on processes, improve workflows, and allow teams to understand where individuals stand on issues. Within different cultural settings, opinions are offered and asked for in several ways. The key to understanding how to provide opinions lies in your ability to ‘read’ your interaction partners.
Should you be direct, indirect, concrete, abstract, objective, subjective, detail rich, context rich…and the list goes on? Go through the following activity to help explore your perspectives around giving and asking for opinions.