{"id":4149,"date":"2024-06-13T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2024-05-18T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T13:08:17","slug":"the-first-five-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/06\/the-first-five-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Five Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>An old adage, one that I have experienced to be true, is that a person will tell another person the solution to all their problems in the first five minutes of the first conversation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many years ago, an experienced consultant told me, &#8220;The client will tell the consultant the solution to all their problems, i.e., the reason they hired a consultant, in the first five minutes of the first conversation. Pay close attention to the first five minutes of the first conversation. It will make you appear to be a genius.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was too simple. That, however, has proven to be true almost all the time I meet a new person in a new job with new problems. They tell me their problems and the solution to their problems in the first five minutes of the first conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess there is some significant and deep psychological reason behind all this. There must be as this is significant, but I don&#8217;t know what it is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I do know is to pay close attention to the first five minutes of the first conversation. This little blog post is pretty repetitive with this &#8220;first five minutes of the first conversation&#8221; thing, but I guess that&#8217;s the message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It works. Please try it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips An old adage, one that I have experienced to be true, is that a person will tell another person the solution to all their problems in the first five minutes of the first conversation. Many years ago, an experienced consultant told me, &#8220;The client will tell the consultant the solution to all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,20,275,53,337],"tags":[221,142,276,174,338],"class_list":["post-4149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consulting","category-learning","category-listening","category-problems","category-solutions","tag-consulting","tag-learning","tag-listening","tag-problems","tag-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}