Episode 175: Effectively Helping Others

Getting to Good Enough · Sep 30, 2021 · 20m

If you offer advice when a person isn't ready to receive it, you may not be helping them. In this episode, Shannon and Janine discuss how to offer effective advice (or other types of help) by making sure the help is welcome.

Discussion topics include:

• The tendency many people have to offer unwelcome advice

• Fashioning advice in ways that feel good to the recipient

• Venting vs wanting advice

• How some people (especially those with Y chromosomes) seem to have trouble differentiating between the need to vent and the desire for advice

• Even well intended advice isn't helpful if the…