Training
Dialogue Facilitation
Three day Course for skilled facilitators
This is a very specialized course limited to a maximum of ten hand-picked emotionally mature and experienced facilitators. The course teaches GPC’s style of facilitating dialogue via a tested format of train/practice/reflect/anchor. Facilitators are taught to deliver pre-emptive models, guiding mindsets, and to facilitate group self-awareness and shared responsibility for success. The course includes a complete facilitator guide with interchangeable modules, practice and coaching on delivery of pre-empts, storytelling theory, a personal experience as a participant or dialogue, and theory and coaching for intervention techniques.
Facilitators examine personal assumptions, ego issues, and any hidden agendas that might corrupt their ability to cleanly lead a group to genuine dialogue.
This course lasts three days and participants are then eligible to join twice yearly reflection retreats where course graduates discuss experiences and update skills for facilitating dialogue.
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Understanding and Ending Turf Wars
Half-Day Course for small or large groups
One and Two day course designs for up to 50 participants
Discover how to tame the warring tribes by learning about the emotional origins of turf wars, and the ten territorial games (like camouflage, occupation, shunning, intimidation, etc.) that these emotions generate. Understanding the territorial dynamics that can hi-jack common sense will help you break through departmental, regional or post-merger boundaries, diffuse the empire builders, and prevent ‘silo’ effects from sabotaging team efforts. One recent participant said,
“I didn’t know there was actually a term for what I see everyday on the job”
Not only is there “a term” for these previously covert activities, but there are solutions as well. An overview of the group dynamics that cause territorial games helps individuals develop practical and realistic solutions that stop the game playing and get a workgroup back on track.
Objectives:
Translate metaphors like turf war or silos into the specific behaviors that alienate groups
Identify the emotional origins of territorial behavior
Build a common language for the ten territorial games
Introduce a self-diagnostic process to help people see their own behavior
Tell stories of successful solution strategies
Outline the five stages of genuine dialogue
Pinpoint the two factors that prevent truth-telling at work
Develop new ideas for making it safe to tell the truth in group situations
Note: Individuals who know each other and work together will practice these skills “real” time doing “real” work – facilitating a dialogue, performing the self-diagnostic on themselves and their group for immediate results.
Groups or participants who don’t know each other and don’t work together get the opportunity to self-diagnose and will be trained in group diagnostics and interventions to use when they return to their workgroups.
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The Story Factor:
Influence and Persuasion by Telling a Compelling Story
The Story Factor: Influence and Persuasion by Telling a Compelling Story
Half-Day Adaptable for small or large groups
One Day Course for small or medium sized groups
Two day intensive course for 25 or less
People don’t want more information…they want FAITH! Faith that you know what you are talking about, that you mean what you say, that - if they do what you ask – everything will turn out okay. Building trust, faith and relationships is a function of telling a compelling story about who you are and why you are here. Only personal experience or a story that simulates personal experience can help the people you wish to influence decide to trust your judgment.
This training course explores the psychology of influence through the practice of storytelling and story-listening. The combination of theory, practice, and group reflection reveals powerful strategies that helps you examine the impact of current “stories” people believe about you and to develop new stories that influence others to see what they see and feel what they feel. Participants also have a safe place to admit, process, and overcome the places where they don’t feel inspired and therefore can’t very well expect to inspire others. This course awakens creativity at the same time gently revealing any gaps between what a participant knows he or she should do and what they actually do most of the time back at work. Day Two continues building skills in storytelling and adds important skills in story-listening to the participant’s influence tool-kit..
Participants develop and refine true stories they can use in the workplace. The group collectively examines the different types of stories and how these stories impact people’s feelings and actions. Each participant develops at least one “who I am, why I’m here story” a “vision story” and a “values-in-action” story.
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Women and Power- Men are Not the Enemy
This training course is for women only. The purpose of the course is to provide a forum for women to re-examine power dilemmas affecting their ability to do good work. This course reframes power in female terms, legitimizing women’s personal experiences of discrimination and disrespect without getting lost in blaming behaviors.
The course turns a spotlight on bad advice men give to women with the best of intentions but a complete misunderstanding of our personal experience. It separates good ideas from practical reality and presents documented evidence of important differences between male and female neurology that dramatically alter male and female processing of incoming data (i.e. in the same situation men and women will tend to have completely different interpretations of what is important, who is responsible, and what should happen next).
Once we have created new core assumptions about the problem, the group can then explore new creative strategies that feel natural to women, that do not require us to become something or someone we are not, and learn how to peacefully shift male perceptions without invoking a “battle of the sexes.”
Currently a dialogue based design for 50 women or less.
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