(Workshops)
Workshops Featured
- Appreciative Leadership
- Appreciative Facilitation
- Project Management
- Optimizing Performance
- Managing Change
- Several managers in our management development class made it a point to seek me out with feedback on Jack's presentation. The term "excellent" sums it up. / Gary Lazaroff / Human Resources Director, St. Vincent Charity Hospital
- About the Design of the Workshops
- These workshops are designed to be instructive, interactive, and focused on the actual scenarios and learning applications of participants. They can be delivered on or off site in 1 or 2 day formats. The Topics highlighted are samples of topics that can be addressed. The ultimate content and deliverables for each workshop are custom designed to the client organization's needs.
- For more information contact Jack @ 216.373.7475 - jack at designinglife.com
 Appreciative Leadership
- In this workshop, we explore the unique power of an appreciative leadership approach in inspiring passions and engaging strengths. The content of this workshop is based on Appreciative Leadership
Topics highlighted
- Assessing & aligning individual and team passions and strengths
- Moving the organizational culture from deficiency to appreciation
- Delivering feedback in a way that fosters empowerment and confidence
- Facilitating strengths-based performance improvement
- Creating performance standards & metrics that are realistic and inspiring
- Building your team's self-organization capability
- Creating learning organizations through communities of practice
Terms addressed
- Appreciative approach, deficiency approach, engaged/non-engaged/actively disengaged employees, Positive-to-negative ratio, sustainability, passion, strengths, weaknesses, core capabilities, alignment, sustainability metrics, strengths continuum, self-organizing teams, authentic empowerment, appreciative feedback, learning organization, experience as teacher, communities of practice, entrepreneurial organization, continuous improvement
Tools introduced
- Strength & passion assessment
- The Dream Space process
- Opportunity mapping
- Passion alignment
- Sustainability metrics mapping
- Self-organizing team design
- Appreciative performance reviews
- Appreciative coaching model
Introduction to Project Management
- In this workshop we explore a systematic and flexible methodology for scoping, staffing, resourcing, scheduling, and leading any kind of project. The content of this workshop is based on Project Zen
Topics highlighted
- Defining realistic scope statements & schedules
- Developing an effective team
- Change management
- Dealing with challenging expectations and constraints
- Managing multiple projects
Terms addressed
- Project/program/process, Project Management Body of Knowledge, project scope, project deliverables, stakeholders, knowns, unknowns, project sponsors, project buzz, functional order, Phase/task Gantt charts, task networks, realistic calendar time, concurrent tasks, dependent tasks, startlines/deadlines, resource planning, resource leveling, critical communication requirements, scope creep, project agility, risk management, scale of intervention, micromonitoring, appreciative project critique - for a complete list of topics available, click here
Tools introduced
- Knowns & unknowns chart
- Stakeholder matrix
- Team matrix
- Phase Gantt chart
- Task Gantt chart
- Task network
- Resource planning chart
- Risk planning chart
- 2-week lookout chart
Appreciative Facilitation
- In this workshop, we explore the ability of leaders, managers, and facilitators to successfully engage people's strengths and passions in brainstorming, planning, problem-solving, and decision-making. The content of this workshop is based on Collaborative Creativity and Accidental Conversations.
Topics highlighted
- How to "read" the group's dynamics
- When & when not to involve people
- How to help a group generate fresh & actionable ideas
- How to involve diverse personalities and agendas
- 7 effective facilitation tools
- How to help a stuck group get and keep moving
- How to leverage the group's strengths and passions
- How to tap into the power of the group's natural networks
- Getting more done in and without meetings
Terms addressed
- Participants/victims, stasists/dynamists, the cycle of engagement, knowns/unknowns, mapping, innovation, improvement, piloting, self-organization, disruptive technologies, early adopters, dialogue/debate, inclusion transparency, appreciative involvement, acccidental conversations, social networks, change
Tools introduced
- 7 thinking caps
- Open Space Technology
- Deficiency mapping
- Appreciative mapping
- IdeaGardening
- Piloting
- Reality-centered collaboration
Optimizing Performance
- In this workshop we explore how to improve the performance of processes and systems in organizations. The content of this workshop is based on Collaborative Creativity
Topics highlighted
- A successful systematic process for continuous improvment
- Reactive & proactive approaches to problem solving
- Appreciative & deficiency improvement models
- Developing effective preventive systems
- Keeping the process creative, collaborative & data-based
Terms addressed
- Core groups, input groups, mapping, reactive problem analysis, proactive problem analysis, common causes,, root causes, prevention systems, risk analysis, early warning systems, scale-appropriate interventions, upstream redesign, solutions focused research, observational constraints, out of the box solutions, ideal states, brainstorming, field tests, concept testing, appreciative critique
Tools introduced
- Opportunity prioritization matrix
- Deficiency-based mapping
- Appreciative mapping
- IdeaGardening
- Piloting
- Ideal states visualization
- Question redesign
- Mind mapping
- Surveys
- Focus groups
- Statistical trend analysis
Managing Change
- In this workshop, we explore how organizations can manage both change that happens to them and change they create. The content of this workshop is based on Accidental Conversations
Topics highlighted
- Change planning & deployment
- Dealing with resistance to change
- Preparing people for change
- Engaging people in the process of change
- The role of leader as change champion
Terms addressed
- Dynamic systems, appreciative inquiry, 4 types of change, discontinuous change, continuous change, dynamists, stasists, smart resistance, futile resistance, participants, victims, agility-drivers, the agile organization, micromonitoring, reactive change, proactive change, comfort zones, up/down cycles, innovation, communities of practice
Tools introduced
- The dynamist-stasist continuum
- The participant-victim continuum
- 6 participation venues
- Change deployment chart
- Change planning chart
- Appreciative metrics inventory
- Change anticipation mapping
- Uncertainty mapping
|
|
