Learning to give and receive energy with each new partner is a challenge and a gift.
Leadership is a path challenged by obstacles such as complex relationships, conflicting organizational priorities, and demanding superiors and direct reports. This interactive workshop explores the art of purposeful communication and provides a framework for guiding employees toward mutually beneficial goals.
What does it take to operate as a team? Why do we waste energy perpetuating problems when we could be building energy by focusing on solutions? What part does communication play in calming or exacerbating the conflict? And how would things change, if we viewed conflict as a necessary and beneficial part of creating a great work environment and a cohesive team?
Most of us see conflict as negative, a perception that has a profound impact on how we manage it.
The Aiki approach presents new ways to utilize and re-direct the energy of conflict.
Get CEU credit at The University of Southern Maine, Portland Campus, on May 30, for this in-depth look at confonting ongoing behavior issues directly, truthfully, and respectfully. You will gain the courage to hold yourself and your employees accountable to high standards of performance and behavior necessary to creating a positive workplace.
Please register at the USM site. Feel free to email me with any questions.
Register by JUNE 2 for additional savings.
Experience a unique approach that goes beyond the intellectual analysis of what to do when conflict and change occur. Root causes and old habits are addressed by looking at the mental, emotional and physical aspects of useful communication. Current western methods are blended with Aikido, the Japanese art of reconciliation, for a profound learning experience.
Begin to change the dynamics of your relationships and engage others in problem-solving strategies.
brings people and horses together to enhance self-awareness and to develop the quality of connection that supports highly effective relationships. Participants are encouraged to slow down and de-construct the components of relationship in order to intentionally build connections that lead to excellence and collaboration.
However, the workshop does not require any previous horse experience, and does not involve riding. It involves observing and participating in activities with horses while on the ground.
Horses provide immediate and honest feedback that allows participants to explore different components of partnership and leadership:
"I want to say how much I enjoyed the day. Having the opportunity to interact with horses relative to leadership gave me a unique opportunity to look at our 4-legged teachers in another way."
...shake up your senses, and engage in experiences that will enhance your ability to influence others in achieving results.
Join Pam McPhee and me on June 23, for a day of fun and learning with like-minded leaders.
Register by June 2, for additional savings.
Partnering with The Browne Center for Innovative Learning
Research shows 60-80% of all difficulties in organizations stem from strained relationships between employees, not from deficits in employees' technical skill or motivation.
In addition, the typical manager spends 25-40% of his/her time dealing with workplace conflicts. That's one to two days of every work week.
And it can create a work environment that hinders safety, productivity, and inclusion. Yet when we approach it consciously and wisely, conflict can also be the source of true collaboration and elegant solutions.
Using Aikido techniques and principles, combined with best practice conflict and communication skills, you will:
Join me in Chicago in September….
Register by AUGUST 1, for addtional savings.
Please join me for a public workshop or get in touch to find out about private sessions for your team, group, or organization.
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Below you'll find a list of public, in-service, and keynote topics.
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I offer experiential, interactive training, coaching, and keynote presentations on conflict, communication skills, and creating your life and work on purpose. Utilizing the martial art Aikido, I help you change reactive mental and behavioral habits and increase options. I’ve written a book and two CDs to support your practice.
Ki (pronounced “key”) is Japanese for universal energy or life force; it’s the central syllable in Aikido and the symbol you see in my logo.