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Better Conversations: Why They Matter And How To Have Them
Culture is discovered in conversation, innovation is sparked or throttled and collaboration results from conversation. Yet all too often the most difficult conversations are avoided, and what should be said goes unsaid. Better conversations are therefore a worthy, performance-improving goal. This practical workshop will enable participants to: <ul> <li>• Understand the importance, nature and structure of effective conversations.</li> <li>• Through self-assessment, gain insight into their conversational style and preferences, learn how these create challenges for work relationships and explore and practise tactics for improving conversations.</li> <li>• Consider defensiveness, motivation, and honesty in conversations, understand their importance and impact on increasing or decreasing trust.</li> <li>• What leadership capabilities do we need to improve our capacity to anticipate the future and act on it?</li> <li>• Structure conversations better to align the goals of those with differing motives.</li> <li>• Practice applying the principles to challenging conversations.</li> </ul> <strong>This two-day workshop, led by Wanda Wallace in a collaborative environment of fellow professionals, provides an opportunity for constructive self-assessment to change behaviours to improve effectiveness. </strong>
Future Insight: Responding To Trends, Threats and Opportunities
This event and the accompanying report will explore why organisations are so poor at spotting what is happening in front of their eyes, and how we can help our organisations avoid the vicious cycle of creative destruction. We will seek to answer the following questions: <ul> <li>• What organisational mechanisms are required to scan the environment in a structured way?</li> <li>• How can we build capacity to detect weak signals, and most importantly to take actions today to prepare for different outcomes and experiment with alternative solutions?</li> <li>• What leadership capabilities do we need to improve our capacity to anticipate the future and act on it?</li> <li>• What are the elements of an organisational culture where people feel they can speak up about what they see and how to respond?</li> <li>• How can we build agility and flexibility in the right places, so we are controlled and ‘tight’ where it’s essential, while remaining ‘loose’ where necessary?</li> </ul> Interactive and challenging, this masterclass led by Margaret Heffernan gets to the heart of organisational performance and the need for constant scanning and future-proofing. <strong>This event is now close to capacity. Please email us for availability.</strong>
