One Leg of a 3-Legged Stool: What kind of conversation is it?
Over the past year of training people in a variety of settings I've come to think about Motivational Interviewing as one leg of a 3-legged stool that makes up many people's job functions: Leg 1: Information Gathering Leg 2: Problem Solving Leg 3: Motivating It's key to be able to recognize what kind of conversation you are having and to think about how these conversations sound differently from each other. Information gathering includes asking a lot of questions, and while go