Deliberate Dialogue(R)
What is Deliberate Dialogue?
Deliberate Dialogue means using intentional and conscious communication skills and processes to promote productive conversations.
Deliberate Dialogue® combines the meanings of “deliberate” as a verb and an adjective. As a verb, “deliberate” involves thoughtful discussion and careful consideration of different perspectives, like how a jury deliberates before making a decision.
As an adjective, “deliberate” means intentional and purposeful. Together, deliberate dialogue means intentionally facilitating conversations that create openness and draw on collective wisdom to create the best solutions, decisions, ideas, or understanding.
(Deliberate Dialogue® is a registered trademark of DELIBERATE CHANGES LLC that pertains to a system of learning and applying deliberate dialogue as defined above).
What you will cover
* Benchmark your current communication skills with an online assessment
* Practice how to start a conversation in a way that opens others to listening
* Learn how to read minds – understand what other people are thinking and feeling
* Practice ways of preempting and minimizing interpersonal conflict in the moment
* Learn how to use Deliberate Dialogue to expand your mind and increase your wisdom, judgement, and mental complexity
* Understand how to balance your level of assertiveness
* Negotiate win/win solutions
* Learn the best ways to gain compliance
* Practice delivering negative feedback
* Learn how to say no
* Learn strategies for clarifying commitment
* Practice holding others accountable
* Obtain tools for helping you decide when to speak up
* Apply strategies to make your new learning stick
* Assess your pre and post-training skills to see an immediate difference
Who Should Attend
This workshop is especially helpful for leaders who need to understand and anticipate the thinking of a diverse group so they can use their personal influence to get things done. It is also for those who work in a high-stress environments, or who work with sensitive people where interpersonal relationships are important.
It is most helpful for anyone who wants to move to the next level of adult development because it teaches you to be more open, expand your thinking, see from multiple perspectives, and become more reflective.
How it works
Training Option
* One full-day interactive workshop with skills practice.
Optional:
* Reinforced by three 90-minute group coaching and/or supplemental training calls scheduled in two-week intervals after the initial training session
* 5-minute reinforcement exercises e-mailed to participants over the next 60 days.
* Individual learning transfer coaching
Coaching Option
* Standard behavioral coaching with one-on-one skill development using workshop materials as reference materials.
Questions?
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