naming elephants presentation

Since The Thin Book® of Naming Elephants was first published, there's been many requests for help in actually designing a presentation for a session to name elephants and improve workplace collaboration. We are pleased to offer this downloadable presentation.

Session Goals:

• Learn to name elephants;

• Analyze their impact on the organization; and

• Prepare actions to deal with them.

PowerPoint Presentation Outline:

• Review of session goals

• Discussion of The Thin Book® of Naming Elephants

• Specific learning points (.e.g., undiscussables, implicit vs. explicit assumptions)

• Common elephants

• Important concepts to set the tone (personal intention, organizational savvy, "how to say it")

• Naming Elephants exercise

• Recap

Notes:

• Audience: Anyone who leads or participates in meetings or group discussion

• Length: 2 -4 hours

• Suggested Number of participants: 10 to 20 per session

• This presentation can be downloaded immediately after completing your order and includes:

  PowerPoint presentation (Windows format;self-executing; PowerPoint not required); includes extensive facilitator notes in the "notes" view

  Additional facilitator notes (pdf format)

  Slides handout (3 per page; pdf format)*

  Naming Elephants Worksheet (pdf format)

• The Thin Book® of Naming Elephants book is best used as a pre-read to the session and will result in a much richer dialogue.

• By purchasing this product, you can use the PowerPoint presentation multiple times, but not duplicate the file for someone else.

• Additional books can be ordered from this web site or by calling 888.316.9544 (Thin Book Publishing).

• This material is protected by the copyright laws.