In This Issue For Leaders: Do you give a GIFT when you praise? For Facilitators: Methods for Group Decision-Making For Consultants and IT Professionals: Master the Art of Winning RFP's For Strategic Planners: Board Composition Model Client Success Story: "IEC Chapter Executive Directors' Conference a Huge Success" Would you like to get published? 20% Discount on Facilitation Coaching Facilitating an upcoming meeting? Get assistance in your planning or some intensive one-on-one feedback. Call 800-824-2850 or click here for details. You must mention the November/December Newsletter in order to receive the discount. Upcoming Classes The Effective Facilitator Nov 10-12 Washington DC Nov 17-19 Atlanta Nov 20-21 Seattle Dec 1-3 Chicago Dec 8-10 Atlanta Jan 12-14 Dallas Jan 26-28 Atlanta The Effective Consultant Nov 3-5 Atlanta Dec 1-3 Dallas NEW! Facilitation Certification Feb 26-28 Atlanta The 2004 Public Course Schedule is available! Click here to register online now for a public class or call us at 1.800.824.2850 about a private on-site class! Leadership Strategies is a national leader in meeting facilitation, facilitator training, consulting skills, leadership skills and soft skills training for information technology professionals.

Greetings! As the holiday seasons arrive, we at Leadership Strategies are truly thankful for you, our clients, friends and associates, who have supported us over the past eleven years. The ideas we provide in our newsletter are one way we say "Thank You." We hope they help your businesses grow and prosper. Enjoy your holidays. See you next year! INTRODUCING: DISC ONLINE DISC is a simple online learning tool that unlocks the powerful secrets of communication. If you feel as if you and the people around you are speaking different languages, you may be right! The DISC survey will help you discover your communication style and how to quickly recognize the style of others. Then, using the proven DISC strategies, you'll be able to communicate more clearly than ever before. Click here for more details. Best Practice Tip for this Issue: Adapt Your Agenda to Address the Need In preparing for your session, you can adapt your agenda using consensus-building principles. People often disagree due to a lack of shared information. Therefore, it is important that the agenda be designed to provide a common set of information early that will serve as a foundation for the session attendees. Example: Our process improvement and process reengineering models start with "How does it work today?" In agenda setting, it is helpful for the session attendees to have early successes of agreement before tackling the more difficult issues. Example: In our strategic planning model, visioning and goal setting is done before the very difficult tasks of establishing objectives. When making a decision, always have the session attendees build a common set of values by which the decision can be made. Example: In our issue resolution model, strengths and weaknesses and evaluation criteria are used to help guide the group through the decision-making process. In strategic planning, barriers and critical success factors are used as the anchors for developing strategies. For more tips on starting with great agendas, consider our three-day course The Effective Facilitator. Click here for more details or call (800) 824-2850. For Leaders: Do you give a GIFT when you praise? I don't mean a book, a gift certificate, or something tangible. I mean, do you... Click here to continue For Facilitators: Methods for Group Decision-Making Organizations across the world know that facilitated groups can be quite effective at... Click here to continue For Consultants and IT Professionals: Master the Art of Winning RFP's Service provider competition has never been more brutal. The best way to win... Click here to continue For Strategic Planners: Board Composition Model Many non-profit organizations seek a Board of Directors with members who are both highly involved and highly... Click here to continue Client Success Story: "IEC Chapter Executive Directors' Conference a Huge Success" The Independent Electrical Contractor's association invited Michael Wilkinson to conduct a two-day planning meeting for them. The title of their press release says it all. Click here to continue Would you like to get published? Do you have tried and true strategies on Facilitation, Leadership, IT/Consulting or Strategic Planning? Would you like to share your ideas in an upcoming newsletter issue? We'd love to hear from you, and so would our 5,000+ subscribers. Each article should be 750-1,000 words. Include your contact information and a 30- to 60-word biography so we can give you proper credit. Click here to email your articles to us.

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