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V1: VIRTUAL TEAM BUILDING: BEST PRACTICES
OF VIRTUAL TEAMS
This Webinar will focus on the interpersonal skills of virtual teams. The key challenges of Trust, Meeting Process and Isolation will be addressed by sharing ideas of how successful virtual teams have dealt with these topics.
Registration Fee: $500
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V2: VIRTUAL TEAM BUILDING: THE ROLE OF THE LEADER
High performing virtual teams require solid team leadership. Virtual team leadership often takes more time than same-site teams. This Webinar delivers ideas of how to successfully manage the following topics within a virtual team: Purpose, Communication Process, Conflict, Task and Relationships.
Registration Fee: $500
Length: 1 hour
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VT 3: VIRTUAL TEAM BUILDING: HOW TO MAKE
3 CULTURAL DIFFERENCES EXPLICIT
Cross cultural teams have to work harder to understand the different cultural norms that drive member behavior. Rather than avoiding them, high performing teams use the differences as a strategic advantage. This Webinar introduces the concepts and a process on how to make the following differences explicit: Identity, Power Distance and Dealing with Uncertainty.
Registration Fee: $500
Delivery: Can be delivered with an intact team as a working session although more than 1 hour will be required
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V4: VIRTUAL TEAM BUILDING: ASSESSING TRUST & COLLABORATION WITHIN AN INTACT TEAM
High performing teams depend on trust. But what is trust within a team? How do teams effectively collaborate? How do you talk about trust without it turning into therapy? This class is designed to be delivered to an intact team as a working session.
Participants will use the confidential, web-based Team Trust & Collaboration Assessment™ for pre-work. The assessment items represent behavioral descriptions of best practices of high performing teams. By completing the assessment, your team will have data to see what you currently do well and to decide what else you need to do.
Pre-work: Each team member will receive an email link to complete the assessment within a specified time period. The results are then consolidated into a report and distributed to all team members in PDF format. The team members will have the opportunity to individually review the results before Virtual Meeting #1 with the consultant.
Virtual Meeting #1 (1 hour by teleconference with all team members): The consultant will review the results with the team, and present her ideas of what the team should do next. Likely next steps include a facilitated dialogue about the meaning of the results to the team and the agreement of action steps. Also, the team and consultant will agree on the need for any follow-up teleconferences.
Registration Fee: $450 plus $10 per invited participant on each team for Meeting #1. Subsequent meetings are $250 $205 /hour.
NOTE: When you order, the order form will only reflect the $450 $369 registration fee. We will contact you to determine the number (and related cost) of participants participating in the TeamTrust & Collaboration Assessment.
Delivery: Delivered to an intact team (clear identity, mutual goals and interdependencies) as a working session
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creating the Collaborative Workplace
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C1: FIVE CRITICAL TIPS TO BUILDING TRUST AT WORK
Trust is a hot topic. Yet when you talk about trust you often find it is so abstract, no one seems to know what it is. This Webinar defines Trust within the context of work. You will lean about the most common Trust Busters at work and deliver suggestions on how you can become a more trustworthy associate or leader.
Registration Fee: $500
Length: 1 hour
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C2: THE LEADER’S ROLE: HOW TO ENGAGE EMPLOYEES
Employee engagement is a hot topic. But, what is it? If the research is correct, only 25% of your employees are actively engaged at work. The rest are hiding their ideas, or even themselves.
How can you as a leader create the environment that invites employees to bring their whole self to work? We start with the 3 questions Dr. William Kahn proposes that employees ask themselves when they make the decision to engage:
- How safe is it for me to engage?
- How meaningful is it for me to engage?
- How much energy do I have to engage?
We’ll provide specific tips on how to help employees and associates answer yes to engagement.
Registration Fee: $500
Length: 1 hour
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C3: NAMING ELEPHANTS: THE FIVE MOST COMMON UNNAMED ELEPHANTS ROAMING IN YOUR WORKPLACE
The co-author of The Thin Book of® Naming Elephants will describe the 5 most common unnamed elephants and give some tips of what to do about them. The elephants are:
- The Normalization of Deviance,
- The Role of the System,
- The Normalization of Arrogance,
- The Smart-Talk Trap, and
- The Intent/Impact Gap.
Registration Fee: $500
Length: 1 hour
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C4: THE COURAGE TO SPEAK UP: HOW TO
ASSESS RISK & HOW TO SAY IT
Innovation in organizations takes courage. People need to be able to share their unique point of view with others in order to find the nuances that might lead to the next great idea. Often they have to point out that they see something others haven’t seen. That can be especially scary if you are trying to tell a superior bad or awkward news. This Webinar presents a model of how to assess the risk of speaking up and provides examples of how to say it respectfully.
Registration Fee: $500
Length: 1 hour
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C5: CONSTRUCTIVE GROUP CONVERSATIONS: HOW TO MANAGE THE DYNAMICS OF GROUP TALK (2 class series)
Most knowledge work is done within groups at meetings. Managing the group dynamics of conversation is a skill that can greatly increase the effectiveness of meetings and decisions. A simple five step model on how to do this is presented in this two-series Webinar.
Registration Fee: $1,000; $500 per Webinar (2 class series)
Length: 1 hour for each class
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C6: DECIDING HOW TO DECIDE: WHY ISN’T ANYONE IMPLEMENTING THAT DECISION I THOUGHT WE MADE?
Many groups think they have made a decision only to discover the decision being un-done by neglect or subterfuge. You can increase not only the effectiveness of your decisions but the buy-in by making the decision making process explicit. This Webinar will talk about the different ways to make decisions (e.g., consensus, vote, designated decision maker) and the ways to clarify roles in the decision making process.
Registration Fee: $500
Length: 1 hour
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C7: AVOIDING GROUP THINK: WHO’S
ACTING AS OUR MIND GUARD?
Groupthink happens when groups try to preserve harmony at the expense of surfacing new or contrary information and diverse opinions. Often one member of the group will take on the role of a mind guard; telling people to stop bringing up anything that doesn’t fit the preferred ‘reality’ of the group. Groupthink is alive and well today and that’s unfortunate because when a team succumbs to groupthink, they make poor quality decisions.
The late Irving Janis wrote the classic book, Groupthink (Houghton Mifflin) in 1972 and revised it in 1982. The book is still fresh and relevant. We’ll explore the ideas Janis wrote about using current examples including defining the danger signs of groupthink and two specific techniques on how you can avoid it in your team.
Registration Fee: $500
Length: 1 hour
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C8: MULTIPLE REALITIES: HOW CAN YOU
POSSIBLY THINK THAT?
Every person sees the world in a unique way. One of the biggest mistakes you can make is to assume others have experienced ‘reality’ as you did. Discover how your reality keeps you from seeing new information. Discover how the choice of language can change the way people ‘see’ reality.Re-frame how you can use multiple realities to find the next great idea.
Registration Fee: $500
Length: 1 hour
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C9: THE GOOD FIGHT: WHY AMIABILITY
IS THE ENEMY OF INNOVATION
Innovation depends on differences. Because conflict avoidance is so deeply embedded in our society we avoid anything that might be seen as a ‘fight.’ Yet the most successful organizations find innovation through vigorous dialogue and still walk out of the room feeling good. Examine your own assumptions around a ‘good fight.’ Examples of how to say it will give you ideas of how to change the tone of the conversation to one of respectful disagreement vs. defensive withdrawal.
Registration Fee: $500
Delivery: Can be delivered to an intact team
Length: 1 hour
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Appreciative Inquiry |
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A1: An Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry
In every team, something works well. Many times, teams focus on their shortcomings. Why not look at the team from the perspective of what it does well. Once you discover or re-discover what you do well, you can find ways to leverage your strengths. This Webinar will give you questions to ask your team and tips on how to change to a more appreciative mindset. This Webinar is taught by the author of the best selling, Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry.
Registration Fee: $500
Length: 1 hour
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A2: APPLYING APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY TO PERFORMANCE/CAREER MANAGEMENT: WHAT
EXCITES YOU ABOUT YOUR WORK?
Appreciative Inquiry is a change management approach that believes that in every system, something is working well and it’s important to discover what that is and design more ways to do what works. This is in direct contrast to the usual approach of finding problems and fixing them. This Webnar will provide you with the basics of how to approach what you do appreciatively. If you are responsible for performance management, you will learn how to incorporate this approach into performance management conversations.
Registration Fee: $500
Length: 1 hour
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A3: APPRECIATIVE TEAM BUILDING: LET’S LOOK
AT WHAT WE DO WELL FOR A CHANGE!
In every team, something works well. Many times, teams focus on their shortcomings. Why not look at the team from the perspective of what it does well. Once you discover or re-discover what you do well, you can find ways to leverage your strengths. This Webinar will give you questions to ask your team and tips on how to change to a more appreciative mindset.
Registration Fee: $500
Length: 1 hour
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WHAT IS A WEBINAR?
Thin Book Publishing provides just-in-time learning for leaders on how organizations can be more successful. A Webinar is live, interactive training class conducted through the use of teleconferencing and the Internet. You will receive cutting edge information, practical tips, tools, strategies and techniques that can benefit your organization immediately. All of this over the telephone, from the convenience of your home or office with no travel time or expense!
Classes are designed to be 55 minutes in length. Unlike many Webinar, ours are not ‘veneers’ for marketing our products. They have the same high quality content you already receive in our books and live workshops
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HOW DOES A WEBINAR WORK?
Each Webinar is facilitated by one of our authors or associates. Our Webinar sessions are interactive, not just a ‘download’ of information. We prefer to answer your questions and hear your comments as we go through the material.
We offer public Webinar where anyone may register for a specific time and class. We also offer private Webinar, scheduled at your convenience for your participants.
Many of our classes can be delivered to an intact team as working sessions. This is especially helpful for virtual teams or those located in the field who rarely get to participate in live training. Or you can use the Webinar as a tool to extend your training resources by letting us provide the content and you handle the follow-up.
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WHAT IS THE COST?
- Public Webinars: $25 to $45 per participant (includes session Listening Guide; pdf format).
Four Webinars are offered free of charge (see the list at the top of this page : click here).
Finally, there are no refunds or reschedules for classes missed.
- Private Webinars: Customized Webinar for groups. Delivered to your organization, the registration fee is $500 per organization plus any bridge fees (for groups over 24; normally bridge line fees range from $35 to $125 for up to 100 participants). OR, we can use your bridge line!
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HOW DO I GET STARTED?
Simply order a Webinar. We will contact you within 24 hrs (but normally the same day) to determine the Webinar date and number of participants.
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