These workshops are designed to help teams develop powerful ways for working together. Each workshop stands on its own, but taken in the order listed below, they form a powerful arc of learning that supports team and organizational development from launch, through adolescence, to maturity.
Each workshop is one day long.
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The Teachable Point of View Workshop
A Teachable Point of View is an engaging expression of an important idea. The form was developed by Noel Tichy, and is outlined in his books The Leadership Engine and The Cycle of Leadership.
Tichy’s core idea is that leaders teach. Leading is not about telling others how to behave, issuing orders or commanding compliance with demands. Nor is it about sharing a vision of a destination and hoping others get inspired to go there too. Leaders help others see what is really happening around them and why it is happening. They help others to see what needs to be done about it so the organization can move toward the future it seeks, adjusting continuously along the way.
A TPOV is a perfect vehicle for expressing directions and priorities and for getting input and support from others.
The purpose of a Teachable Point of View is to:
| share your ideas with others; | |
| teach them about the current reality; | |
| provide direction about where the organization needs to go and how it can get there; | |
| get input; and | |
| inspire others in a way that moves them to action. |
As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will:
| Learn a form of expression called the Teachable Point of View that both proposes clear directions and communicates them in ways that are open to input and advice from staff and stakeholders. | |
| Create a Teachable Point of View for their organization. |
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The Trust Workshop
This workshop explores how the 13 behaviours of Trust that Stephen M.R. Covey outlines in his book: The Speed of Trust are operating or absent in your organization. The session seeks to answer five questions:
| How have we trusted each other? | |
| How can trust help us to work more effectively together? | |
| What will I do to extend my trust to others? | |
| What are the key issues or concerns present in this organization that will depend upon our shared trust to succeed? | |
| How will we go forward, with trust, to address these concerns? |
As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will:
| Understand the elements of trust that they, personally, will need to extend more effectively. | |
| Understand how to receive the trust of others with more accountability. | |
| Understand how trust is critical for success in issues that are facing your organization, now. |
Suggested Homework: Read The Speed of Trust, the One Thing that Changes Everything, by Stephen M.R. Covey.
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The Culture and Strategy Workshop
This workshop is about the role leaders play in shaping the culture of their organization. In particular, it focuses upon creating a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship that will lead to sustained business success.
This workshop shines light on the processes, guidelines and standards within your organization that incent behaviours that create excellence. It also reveals those that simply frustrate and create waste. This workshop seeks to answer 5 questions:
| What behaviours do we want to be present in our organization that will foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship? | |
| What behaviours do we have now that support a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship? | |
| What are we missing? | |
| What is happening here that is inhibiting a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship? | |
| How will we go forward? |
As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will:
| Uncover possibilities for innovation and entrepreneurship within their organization. | |
| Be clear about what they want to be present in their organization to realize a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. | |
| Generate behaviours that create new ways of working together to collectively develop and execute an innovative and entrepreneurial business strategy. |
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The Silo-Busting Workshop
This workshop is about how to work collaboratively across functional units within an organization to create more value for customers, with greater internal effectiveness.
This session is not about priority setting or work planning. It is about linking the very different passions of craft experts within the organization with their collective passion for the organization’s whole purpose.
As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will:
| Recognize how different skills and passions associated with different crafts engender cultural diversity within the organization. | |
| Develop new ways to work collaboratively across these cultures to create more customer value. |
Homework: Read Silo Busting: How to Execute on the Promise of Customer Focus by Ranjay Gulati, Harvard Business Review.
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The Conflict Resolution Workshop
Not all conflict is marked by anger. More often, conflict in the workplace results in frustration and avoidance. Festering conflict erodes personal accountability.
But conflict can also create incredibly fertile terrain for new ideas and possibilities if it is sorted out in a safe setting, and if participants in the conflict are able to shed their self interest for the good of the whole enterprise. This session is about navigating through conflict by creating something new, together – not by bargaining interests, goods or services.
As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will:
| Learn about tools that help to see other points of view with more compassion and more understanding. | |
| Articulate their whole organization’s enterprise as a sum of many integrated parts. | |
| Learn tools for leading a structured conversation that will lead to breakthrough results among parties in conflict. |
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The Coaching Workshop
| Coaching creates new pathways for leading improved performance. | |
Coaches are learning partners. They help participants make connections between how they interpret the world, how they behave and the outcomes these behaviours engender. |
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| Coaching leaders help their staff to see new possibilities. They construct positive approaches to achieve the future they want. They help staff members develop behaviours they will need to succeed. |
As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will learn how to:
| See themselves in new ways | |
| See others with new insight. | |
| Ask questions that will spur self-reflection, insight and learning for their staff members. | |
| Co-develop a personal learning plan with members of their staff. |
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Our Pedagogical Approach
Our pedagogical approach has five steps:
1. Create a common experience for workshop participants.
2. Introduce new ideas through brief presentations and reading materials.
- 3. Create time for meaningful personal reflection that is guided by questions that encourage exploration.
4. Create great conversations among peers using specific structures for engagement.
- 5. Drive to outcomes that are meaningful to the participants who are in the room and to their organizations
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