The Six Leadership Conversations
Learn how to have six leadership conversations that will increase your influence and help you communicate clearly and with confidence
Duration
The Six Leadership Conversations is available as two 3.5-hour programs a week apart. Two hours of pre-workshop learning is required (includes videos, readings and a brief comprehension quiz).
Options
The Six Leadership Conversations is facilitated in-person or virtually using Zoom.
Workbook
Virtual sessions – participants will receive a comprehensive workshop manual (PDF) a few days before the workshop begins.
In-person sessions – participants will receive a comprehensive paper workshop manual on the day of the in-person workshop.
The Six Leadership Conversations
Learn how to have six leadership conversations that will increase your influence and help you communicate clearly and with confidence
crease your influence
The Six Leadership Conversations focuses on building essential competencies to help you as a leader have six necessary conversations at work.
Your effectiveness as a leader is directly linked to the way you communicate. The health of your department and organization is a reflection of the type of conversations managers and employees have, in meetings and around the water cooler.
Purpose
The Six Leadership Conversations is an interactive workshop featuring six essential conversations to help you build your influence and make a difference when you communicate:
- The Listening Conversation—how to listen to understand and empathize. Develop your competence using a four-step process for deep listening by parking judgment, listening to understand and responding with empathy.
- The Learning Conversation—how to facilitate learning conversations. Help colleagues and employees come to insight as you foster learning by asking insightful questions. Learn how to use an effective three-step process to help others take ownership of responsibilities.
- The Feedback Conversation—how to give, receive and request feedback. Develop your self-awareness and build your credibility by learning how to ask for feedback from colleagues and provide feedback to those who report to you.
- The Necessary Conversation—how to have proactive, necessary conversations. Develop your emotional agility and conversational intelligence as you learn how to use your authentic voice to communicate clearly, help minimize misunderstandings and have real dialogue without damaging relationships.
- The Care Conversation—how to have a have a respectful, empathic, and kind conversation with a colleague who is showing signs of being under undue stress, feeling overwhelmed and not coping with simple tasks or avoiding certain people at work.
- The Mentoring Conversation—how to coach for results and performance. Learn how to use an extremely flexible and powerful mentoring map that provides a structure for your conversations about performance.
Duration—in-person or virtual classroom
Available as two 3.5-hour programs a week apart.
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