Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
CIIS Public Programs
1453 Mission St,
San Francisco, California
Your skill and effectiveness as a leader can be made or
broken through the quality of your conversations. There is both a science and
an art to these conversations. This workshop is an overview of the mindset and
skill set that inspires and catalyzes successful, essential conversations.
It includes a framework for utilizing discoveries from
neuroscience, communication theories, as well as various psychologies including
positive, cognitive, evolutionary, and existential. Become more adept at
navigating conversations by gaining a deeper understanding of the challenges
people face (including yourself) in having mindful, compassionate
conversations. The principles and practices taught in this workshop are
applicable to personal relationships as well.
Some of the skills and tools taught in this workshop:
• An approach for understanding the common opportunities
and impediments to meaningful, leadership conversations
• Recognizing and addressing the hidden dynamics and
issues people have behind their upsets
• The importance of interpersonal courage along with how
to focus on and develop it more
• Why clarifying intention and staying on purpose is so
critical to successful conversational outcomes
• The factors that increase the probability of having the
other person receive your message positively
• Ways to recognize and identify emotional reactivity
(defensiveness) as the core obstacle to successful conversations
• Awareness of the hidden assumptions that could derail
an essential conversation
• Practices to diminish reactivity and inspire positive
participation
Facilitator: Daniel Ellenberg
