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COMMUNICATE OR DIE

The Communicate or Die Workshop

What challenges does this workshop address?

  • Indecisiveness: endless meetings without results or actions
  • Wasteful communication: There’s a culture of excessive bureaucracy
  • Blame, excuses, gossip: People make excuses for poor performance
  • Loss of key customers: Customers complain about quality of service
  • One-way: There’s plenty of control, but no room for feedback and change
  • Things fall through the cracks: People are waiting for someone else’s initiative
  • Clashes of personalities or cultures: don’t speak the same language; in-fighting

What does the workshop do?

  • It aligns your team around a culture of effective communication for action
  • It arrests the “capital sins of speaking” (e.g. excuses, blame, rumors)
  • It gives people techniques for results through effective speaking and masterful listening
  • It turns people into a cohesive high-performance team
  • It provides practical leadership tools that last
  • It spreads a culture of clear feedback in the organization
  • It makes your people able to turn any breakdowns into breakthroughs

Who is the workshop for?

  • Senior executives in industry, nonprofits and government
  • Functional departments or divisions performing below expectations
  • Project / sales / cross-functional teams that don’t work well together
  • Technology people and business people who don’t talk to each other
  • Boards of directors who believe they need to communicate better
  • Entrepreneurs and owners of small and medium enterprises that need to make things happen

What does the workshop cover?

Day 1:

  • Self-assessment. Key relationships (& communication issues)
  • Conversations of leaders: the Global Leader Pyramid™
  • The 5 capital sins of speaking. From complaint to commitment
  • Giving & receiving feedback. Appreciation
  • Catalytic projects
  • 100-Day Catalytic Projects

Day 2:

  • Active listening. Text and subtext
  • The Matterhorn of Masterful Listening™
  • Responding to “brick-wall statements”
  • Championship teams
  • Sustainability. Next steps

 

 

 
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