My mind is dancing around a new course, but I can't quite pin it down.

A lot of folks in this office have really confused ideas about social dynamics that they picked up from movies and stories and TV shows and applied to real life. There are a lot of people here who won't speak up when something in wrong because they think they'll be fired.

In fact, the opposite is true - the people who get ahead here are the people who speak up and present solutions.

We also have this issue with understanding how social dynamics can effect the conversations we intend to have - moving us from constructive conversation to something more destructive and petty.

Wrap all of this in flawed ideas about what it means to be "professional" and you get a very large organization with very dysfunctional communication and very little immediate incentive to fix it.

So, I've started a few programs to help tackle this but there are still issues around how to actually make change as opposed to just presenting a problem.

This course is going to build around the framework of Transactional Analysis and Crucial Conversations, proving people tools to understand and change the dynamics that stress them out.

If anyone's interested, maybe I'll get some help from Hubskiers to listen to my early versions and give feedback. My wife can only hear it so many times before she starts to zone out.