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Greetings!
Our world never fails to present us with opportunities for great learning. In this newsletter, the learning abounds!
- In “The Breakfast of Champions” David Walton Earle provides insights on what the key nutrition is for a workplace. He provides a real-world example of how a manager motivated a seemingly de-motivated employee.
- If you ever had to move a challenging group to consensus, you will want to take a look at Charlie Tombazian’s article in the client success section: “Gaining Consensus in a Tough Situation.” Charlie tells about how he modified our consensus building process to achieve significant success.
- This issue also includes an article on one of my biggest mistakes this year: misreading the communication style of a potential client – producing disastrous results. If experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want, it was a tremendous experience.
- “The What, the Why and the How” provides a new insight into what separates good and great facilitators. While good facilitators tell participants what to do, great facilitators (often without thinking about it) go further by describing the why and the how. This article shows you how.
- And if you do strategic planning, you will want to take a look at the benefits you can achieve through a structured management briefing.
- Leadership Strategies is proud to present two new courses for 2006! Masterful Meetings and Facilitation for Trainers have been developed to meet our client's increased demand for specialized training.
May this holiday season be one of great thankfulness, appropriate introspection, and joyous times with family and friends!
Michael
Michael Wilkinson
Managing Director, LSI
Best Practice Tip for this Issue: Agendas That Build Consensus
Much of the disagreement that arises in a session can be attributed to a lack of shared information. Therefore, it is important that the agenda be designed to provide a common set of information as early as possible that will serve as a foundation for building consensus. In agenda setting, it is helpful for the session attendees to have early successes of agreement before tackling the more difficult issues. When faced with making a decision, always have the session attendees build a common set of values or evaluation criteria by which the decision can be made.
To learn more about creating meaningful agendas, register for The Effective Facilitator course! For more details, call (800) 824- 2850.
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| For Facilitators: The What, The Why, The How | | Last month I had the opportunity to facilitate a training session for 120 HR professionals from one of the major insurance companies. The session, The Seven Separators of Great Facilitation, is one of our marquee programs designed to have participants understand and practice seven skills we find essential to excellence in facilitation. Masterful facilitators...
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| For Leaders: Feedback: The Breakfast of Champions | | Wheaties, has long been the cereal of champions or so General Mills would like us to believe. “Eat this breakfast and you will excel in athletic competition” is the implication. The ultimate proof is the latest Olympic champion featured on the front of the box. Good communication should also be the prominent...
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| For Consultants and IT Professionals: Misreading Styles | | | It’s always humbling, isn’t it, when you make a mistake that you teach others not to make and it costs you dearly? I would like to relate a recent experience in hopes that you might avoid similar situations. Let’s start with the lesson...
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For Strategic Planners: The Management Briefing on Strategic Planning | | | In undertaking a strategic planning effort, have you ever found the team arguing over definitions, or wanting to complete the strategic plan in a half-day or a day, or disinterested because they don’t see how strategic planning will have impact on their day-to-day...
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| Client Success Story: Charlie Tombazian on Gaining Consensus in a Tough Situation | | | I facilitated a group made up of two teams that were in conflict with one another over the past 9 months. The Sales/Marketing team from our largest field office lodged several complaints during this period that our Integration Center Team (Operations) at our Corporate Headquarters was not getting their orders for customers built and delivered on a timely basis...
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| The PDI Difference | | | PDI stands for Practical/Dynamic/Interactive. It's what sets Leadership Strategies above the rest. The PDI Difference can be seen in every aspect of what we do.
Practical Methods that Produce Results: We use proven methods and techniques in both our training classes and our facilitated sessions. Each and every session is carefully planned and executed with precision to ensure consistent results that apply to real-life situations - and produce measurable results.
Dynamic Energy that Keeps You Engaged: Our facilitators operate on "Level 3" energy so participants are engaged from beginning to end. No doodling in our sessions! We also use a wide variety of techniques to keep the interest high and be sure everyone contributes their best ideas.
Interactive - Proven Methods for Successful Integration and Application: In our facilitated sessions, our trained facilitators set people up in teams to enhance collaboration and ideas that work from every angle. In our training sessions, it's "practice, practice, practice" so participants learn by doing it themselves, by critiquing others in the class, and receiving immediate feedback from the instructor.
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| Spotlight: National Facilitator Database | | | Are you looking for a facilitator for an upcoming session, and don't have a clue where to start? Or, maybe you're a facilitator with great skills and experience looking for clients. In either case, we can help. The National Facilitator Database does both. For details, click here.
NFDB.com is managed by Leadership Strategies. If you have any questions or would like to speak with one of our Client Relationship Managers, you can call 800-824-2850. Or, click here to email your questions.
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