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Conversation Starter Cards

A blank deck on one page: five kinds of prompt, two or three cards each, for the topic your team keeps stepping around.

30 to 40 minutesCompanion to Build Your Own Conversation StartersCOMMUNICATION MINDSET
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How to use this sheet
  1. Name the real topic underneath: not "communication" but the reorg nobody names, the gap everyone tiptoes around.
  2. Write two or three prompts per type. One sentence each, specific enough to act on without asking what it means.
  3. Cut the cards out if you like, or keep the sheet whole.
  4. Put two or three into circulation this week: one in a meeting, one for yourself, one nudge toward the conversation you have been avoiding.
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Card 1one sentenceCard 2Card 3
Look inward
Get curious out loud
Have the avoided conversation
Bring the team in
Go learn something
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Source Based on MSF's Ways of Working \"30 Ideas Towards Transformative Conversations\" card deck and its companion Toolbox for Transformative Conversations. Adapted by Mat Dufour.