Introductory Workshops
For Business Agility
Immediate Solutions to key pain points
Short introductory topics on Business Agility that will give team members and leaders the practical skills they need to get immediate benefits in key areas of functioning. Based on the SHIFT314 Evolutionary Leadership Framework (SELF™), and the book Leading Beyond Change.
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① Securing Psychological Safety: Improve safety levels so people can perform at their best.
② Decisions That Stick: Make better decisions and empower people.
③ Accelerating Alignment: Learn to detect and overcome the hidden drag in your team/org.
④ Remote Working Fundamentals: Leverage technology and connection with remote and hybrid working.
⑤ Retaining & Attracting Talent: Move beyond the surface to fundamentally support staff.
Duration: Each training is three hours, followed by two one-hour integration sessions.
① Securing Psychological Safety ↑
Psychological Safety is the cornerstone of high performance. The frontal cortex – the seat of our intelligence – only functions at full capacity when people feel that they are safe. We hire smart people, how do we improve the organization to support the brilliance of our people?
Course participants learn how to detect when safety is at risk and the practical steps to improve levels of psychological safety. The focus of this session is immediate and actionable so leaders can support psychological safety and build the environment to create incredible workplaces. Even more importantly, psychological safety forms the basis for achieving diversity and inclusion goals.
Learning Topics
Discover the effects of low safety on cognitive function and performance
Understanding and applying the Psychological Safety Spectrum
Introduction to VAST (Vulnerability, Authentic Connection, Safety, Trust) Model for developing safety and trust
Create short and long term strategies and a culture of psychological safety
Learn immediate application with practical tools using the SELF™ Framework for increasing safety levels, diversity and inclusion made effortlessly, all lives matter.
Audience: Team members and leaders.
② Decisions That Stick ↑
Due to the complexity of organizations and the people involved, it can be challenging to make effective decisions that stick. Leadership can get caught in a seesaw between making decisions and empowering staff.
Leaders will learn a series of practical tools to elevate their decision-making capability and learn to find a balance between speed, inclusiveness, and development of leaders. This is an important first step for leaders to understand The Paradox of Power: how to wield power effectively and when to create space for others.
Learning Topics
Identifying the signs of ineffective decisions
Applying Decision Cards™ for clarifying authority
Using Advice Process for improved decision quality
Applying Fist-of-Five to make group decisions
Identify the trade-offs between using and sharing power
Audience: Team members and leaders.
③ Accelerating Alignment ↑
Most organizations are significantly challenged with misalignment between organizational groups and levels of management. Higher levels of alignment are a critical success factor to enable the product, strategic and cultural goals of leadership.
The SHIFT314 principle is that Alignment is like Breathing. Success depends on ongoing attention to foster alignment across levels of management and organizational groups. Leaders learn the practical steps to measure and improve alignment levels to unlock progress and success.
Learning Topics
Assessing signs and costs of misalignment
Measuring Alignment using SELF™ tools
Detecting Alignment Traps and overcoming them
Learn Immediate steps to increase alignment with practical application of SELF™Framework tools and techniques
Audience: Team members and leaders.
④ Remote Working Fundamentals ↑
The shift to remote working has taken a significant toll on most organizations: lack of connection, the great resignation, and difficulty exercising control. Both team members and leaders are challenged to find new norms that work well; new skills are needed to thrive.
The focus of this workshop is on how to establish connections as human beings to build the trust and safety needed to get work done. The skills range from remote listening, leveraging technology, and energizing large groups.
Learning Topics
Working with audio and video, tools, platforms, and facilitation
1:1 connection activities including remote listening skills
Group connection activities include engaging participants
Hybrid remote and in-person work environments
Remote & in-person: balancing organizational and individual needs
Audience: Team members and leaders.
⑤ Retaining & Attracting Talent ↑
One of the biggest challenges facing organizations today is the difficulty in retaining talent and attracting great talent. It’s not about marketing, it’s about a fundamental shift in supporting staff. While this is a systemic challenge that reflects the overall culture of an organization, it is possible for leaders to create an immediate shift with their teams and groups.
The starting place is an honest recognition of where the group stands. From there, leaders will learn the fundamentals of addressing basic needs to unlock the potential of current talent. Included is how to leverage the existing talent to attract new talent.
Learning Topics
Assessing the level of talent “attractiveness” and its impact
Retaining talent as the foundation of attracting talent
Establishing basic talent needs and unlocking the Employee Motivation Model
Balancing Delivery to People Development
Mitigating external organizational environment challenges
Audience: Executives, Managers, and informal leaders.
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