Communication · Executive Insight Brief · 386
Let the reasons for change belong to them
Direction and autonomy can coexist when the conversation evokes a person’s own reasons for change while keeping power and professional duty visible.
Premise
Motivational Interviewing changes the practitioner’s role from supplying motivation to shaping a conversation in which the other person can hear and strengthen their own reasons for change. William R. Miller originated the approach in 1983; Stephen Rollnick later became its principal co-developer. For leaders, clinicians, coaches, and other professionals, MI is most useful where argument and advice risk producing defensiveness, sustain talk, or friction instead of movement.
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