The Facilitative Leader Free Webinar

Please join us Monday, November 26th, 2007 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Eastern Standard Time

Most of our work focuses on helping formal and informal leaders get results they didn't think possible – we're helping them apply the mindset and skills that are at the core of our facilitation work.

This core is not about tools and techniques – it's about learning to act in a fundamentally more candid, curious and compassionate way in circumstances where most others revert to subtly controlling tactics.

I'm excited to be under contract with Jossey-Bass to write a book on Leadership over the next year and a half – you can get learn about some of the contents by joining this webinar. You can sign up below, and please forward this webpage to colleagues you think might be interested.

It's designed to give you practical strategies, tools, and ways of thinking that have helped our clients get results like these:

• Saving a key customer relationship that's in serious trouble
• Generating solutions that team members genuinely and actively support
• Developing trust between groups who seemed to enjoy being "siloed."
• Making decisions that save significant resources and time - or that create new, valuable opportunities
• Dramatically reducing workplace stress - and increasing satisfaction

My colleagues and I use the same approach I'll be teaching you. We have worked for 25 years to develop and apply this approach, and have learned what works and what doesn't. This approach is the basis for our two books: The Skilled Facilitator and The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook.

The Facilitative Leader approach focuses on how you think AND how you act. Many approaches to leadership teach you tools and techniques to be more effective. But our work and significant research show that's just not enough. You have to change the way you think - the assumptions you make, how you interpret behavior, and your responses to challenging situations. We'll cover important tools and techniques in this call - but the main focus is on how you can shift your thinking to get better results.

I'll offer you practical, straightforward ways of changing the way you think. These are the same ways our clients have repeatedly used to achieve results they didn't imagine possible.

We'll do all this in a fast-paced, focused way. We'll address your questions in the session.

• Using Explicit Core Values and Principles. All of us use core values to guide our behavior. We usually don't tell people what they are, and our values are sometimes counterproductive. I'll share the explicit core values and principles we use to help us decide what to do in any leadership situation.

• Exploring and Changing How We Think. Compelling research shows that 98% of us act in the same counterproductive ways in stressful situations. We'll explore what you can do about this to get powerful results with groups.

• Using Ground Rules to Develop Trust and Effectiveness. If you're aiming for increased trust and better results, you have to have a set of effective behaviors in your head. I'll share the ones that I have developed over the last 25 years.

• Suspending Judgment. Groups and leaders often get into trouble when they assume they know what others are thinking. To be effective, we need to make assumptions in a way that:

  • Increases the chance that they'll be accurate
  • Enables us to share them with others to see if they disagree
  • Does not create defensive reactions when we share them
    
    
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• Deciding What to Say, and When. When you work with groups, you need to know when to say something what to say, how to say it, when to say it, and to whom. To help you do this, I have devised a six-step process called the diagnosis-intervention cycle - I'll explore that here.

If you want to have more credibility and impact with groups and take your effectiveness to the next level, this webinar is probably for you. I invite you to participate.

1. Dial-in information for the 60 minute webinar on August 31st at 3:00 pm. (Eastern Standard Time)
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