Become an Extraordinary Leader using Conversational Leadership - our unique technology!

What is your definition of extraordinary leadership? There are as many answers as there are people. For some it may be to lead big projects and manage outcomes. For some it may be to achieve better test scores, or to make $5 million and give it away to charity. For others, it may be to be a loving husband or a great mother.
 

Whatever your definition is, you deserve to be fulfilled in whatever direction you choose to exemplify leadership in your life. The challenge is that in the 21st century, it’s so easy to get caught up in the process and lose sight of the desired outcome.

We support leadership change initiatives through Conversational Leadership, a phrase coined by our partner Carolyn Baldwin to describe our discipline that uses multiple learning tools focused on developing a common understanding and aligned action in the organization.

We provide leadership development and support services to organizations of all types that, from time to time, need immediate access to proven tools that can enable leaders to effectively and efficiently use Conversational Leadership for critical projects.

Adapted from Society of Organizational Learning (SOL)

Aspiration: Lead from the Inside Out and Enable your community to reach their shared vision

• Get a clear and compelling vision for yourself and the group you lead.

• Design work activities in line with the enterprise goals and vision.

• Learn how to portray your operating personal principles

• Identify your current reality.

• Identify work that is not in alignment with enterprise goals and take steps to eliminate those work efforts or mitigate their negative effects.

• Learn how to identify and help create desired conditions in the teams or departments they lead, and mitigate undesired conditions.

 
Conversation…it is the Relationship

Developing the capacity to engage in ‘learningful’ conversations that foster reflection on deep assumptions and patterns of behavior enables alignment in your organizational system.  We believe that quality conversations lead to quality thinking, which leads to quality results. Don’t let poor communication thwart your organization’s success.

• Learn and use proven Learning Conversation Guidelines.

• Develop stronger individual communication skills and capabilities.

• Learn how to facilitate difficult conversations.

• Utilize energizing and effective meeting protocols.

• Design and facilitate meetings using the language of Conversational Leadership that produce desired changes in behavior of meeting attendees.

• Recognize and use conversation as a disciplined practice to accomplish alignment in the system.

• Shape Safely Dangerous Space within which to communicate.  

Seeing the Whole Picture: Complexity of Systems - Leading from the Outside In

When we recognize that all organizations are living systems and interdependent, we can be more agile in managing the complexities inherent in human systems.
 

• Identify the forces that are holding you back-- addictive loops and poor transfer of knowledge and communication.

• Be able to use a common language that helps communicate complexity and interdependency within the system.

• When we see the system as living, we can understand how people behave affects every part of the system. 

• Understand how mental models effect your thinking and that of others in the system; these mental models affect the impact of the systemic behavior and desired results.

• Leading through your strengths while marginalizing forces that impede

• Align your thinking so that your leadership responses and actions naturally flow in the direction you want most.