Autumn 2016 Seminars and Webinars
Critical Thinking and Innovation
Today's business opportunities and challenges are frequently complex and require your executives to develop their thinking radically and rapidly. This seminar/webinar provides participants with the tools to develop better critical thinking and innovate better solutions.
- Bring your real business challenge
- Information evaluation and thinking biases
- Are two heads better than one? Creating the conditions for groups to attend to more information and gain greater insights
- Techniques to create solution ideas and evaluate them
- Personal action plan
Stakeholder Engagement and Negotiation
More than ever, executives are getting things done by working with diverse groups of stakeholders. This seminar/webinar helps participants to identify, understand and collaborate better with their stakeholders - internal or external.
- Bring a real stakeholder relationship to improve
- Clarifying the purpose and outcomes of your next stakeholder conversation
- Making the most of both informal networks of stakeholders and formal structures
- Creating a positive and forward-looking story about you and your stakeholder
- Empathising to understand their objectives and concerns
- Explicitly testing assumptions, inferences and conclusions
- Finding common ground in order to resolve differences
- Creating the ability to move by generating tradables
- Personal action plan and post-event work
Beyond Resilience - Getting Your Team on the Front Foot
Tomorrow's successful executives will not just be resilient to change but proactively create the business world they desire. This seminar/webinar helps participants to shift from reactive to proactive in delivering business improvements through better communication and collaboration.
- Working with your team to clarify purpose, business improvements and priorities
- Introducing communication forums and channels to keep people focused and able to collaborate on challenges
- Establishing a network of sponsors and champions across the business and beyond to help your team to achieve
- Facilitating productive team conversations and problem solving
- Recognising strong emotions in 'difficult' conversations and exercising and modeling self control