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The Four Shifts
Practical principles to help people shift how they talk and listen. Build trust and stronger connection in your team with these key communication habits.
Key Benefits
Address issues earlier
With simple frameworks and a shared language to improve communication.
Get Clear, Be Open, Be Honest, Collaborate
Work your way through the Principles and Habits and make the shifts together.
Get Clear
Be Open
Be Honest
Collaborate
The Four Shifts Program identifies the bulls that block good communication in so many workplaces - such as vagueness, sarcasm, gossip and possessiveness - and suggests Principles and Habits to shift them.
The Four Shifts
Build practical skills, step by step.
Get Clear
Apply these four Habits to get people more present and connected, make your meetings more purposeful, make effective requests, give clear instructions, and engage people in decision-making that is more likely to lead to successful execution.
Be Open
Shift from defensiveness to curiosity, park automatic opinions, reduce your attachments and make it safer and easier for people to be honest with you.
Be Honest
Distinguish healthy venting from whinging, muttering and recruiting. Take greater responsibility, separate facts from opinions, state your wants and concerns, and speak TO people rather than just ABOUT them.
Collaborate
Lift Competitive relationships to be more Co-operative and get some of your nice, polite Co-operative to be more robust and Collaborative. Eliminate gossip, reduce the sarcasm and corporate speak, and help people to think together with, "How might we ...?" questions.
How it works
We blend visual, audio and written resources with facilitated conversations to explore how the tools can be used in your work. For our in-the-room programs, the online resources are usually accessed the workshops. For online programs, the resources are viewed, read or listened to before each session so people come ready to collaborate on application.
Bullshift TV: Engaging videos explaining the concepts with actors playing out examples and quizzes to spark self-reflection.
Bullshift Audio: The audio version of the Episodes - and the Bullshift Audiobook.
Written Resources: The e-book or hard copy plus downloadable reminders, summaries and guides.
Workshops: Facilitated explorations of how each tool can be applied to your workplace challenges - with peers supporting each other as you learn together.
Laugh together, get serious results
The Four Shifts tackle the real communication pain points that cost teams the most time and trust.
The program provides a shared language for addressing issues together and co-creating the culture you want to work in every day.
This program works anywhere, and can be adapted to the needs and goals of in-person, hybrid or remote teams.
The 12 Principles of Bullshift
Don’t be vague
Get Clear
Don’t have an opinion if you don’t need one
Park It
Don’t be defensive
Be Curious
Don’t get too emotionally invested
Detach to Explore
Don’t make excuses
Take Responsibility
Don’t express opinion as fact
Express Opinion as Opinion
Don’t pretend
Be Authentic
Don’t mutter
Speak Up
Don’t use sarcasm
Say It Straight or Don’t Say It
Don’t gossip
Be Respectful
Don’t use corporate speak
Use Meaningful Words
Don’t compete
Collaborate
Kath, participant of The Four Shifts Program
About Bullshift
The Bullshift Principles and Habits have been developed over 30+ years working with thousands of people in hundreds of organisations.
We succeed through proven, practical CONTENT, engaging, interactive METHOD, high-quality RESOURCES and excellence in SERVICE and DELIVERY.