How to communicate with a Visionary or Pragmatist

Learning to communicate with your spouse, boss, children, friends
and family can be challenging enough,  but when you see life
not only through your unique style but with a different lens it
makes it that much more interesting and sometimes downright
discouraging.   In this episode we discuss 3 practical
ways to live with and  understand a visionary and or
pragmatist. Communicating with a visionary from a pragmatic point
of view (POV) requires  1) a mindset of optimism or at least
a willingness to be optimistic when all you see is what you hear;
which a lot of times is risk, $$, time and lots of hard work, 2)
ability to see from big to small, elephant to bite size, and 3)
the ability to structure a timeline from A to Z systematically
without jumping from A to Z when that's what the visionary wants.


Communicating with a pragmatist from a visionaries POV requires
1) LOTS OF PATIENCE (LOL)!  2) Share the vision gently;
temper passion with probability of execution from the get-go.
  2) Value the person who is a part of the execution
rather than just seeing the person as a means to the end result.
3) Embrace the process and the person not the product!





Scripture reference. Ps 90:17