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How Daring to Dialogue Improves Performance and Creates a Culture of Agility The single greatest predictor of success is the way we are having or not having conversations, and if we can learn to be more intentional in how we invite, cultivate, participate, and facilitate conversations there will not be any challenge that an organization cannot skillfully navigate in order to produce effective outcomes. But what if our conversations are stuck or ineffective? What if conversations break down instead of generating new collective thinking? We'll look at conversations and how to use the structure of the conversations to harvest the intelligence that already exists, and the daring role leaders play in creating a space for dialogue in order to greatly change the nature of the discourse. Key Takeaways include: Four actions that everyone can take to foster better conversations Understand the impact of monologue vs dialogue on culture Three ways for leaders to engage in better dialogue starting today
Improve Your Business Agility with Flawless Execution Business Agility in conjunction with a commitment to Innovation is a game-changing reality in our world. Individuals who can create ideas and act on them to build new technologies and products are emerging as the new leaders in 21st Century society. Many technology companies in areas like Silicon Valley, university innovation labs, and institutes are cultivating countless innovative ideas and processes. With all this attention, innovation in the corporate business world at C-level execution is somewhat of a mystery and quite hard to define and even harder to master. As with any journey, it begins with a first step. What simple step can you take today to understand how innovation takes place and the factors that empower it, so you can optimize the conditions for future innovation in your organization? Intentional planning that has buy-in from all stakeholders provides a bridge from ideas to executable plans. This accelerates a company's ability to both create and respond to change in order to profit in a turbulent business environment.
Take Control of Your Habits and Get Results: Improve Performance and Productivity For Project Managers there is a certain cadence of to-dos within the project life cycle. These to-dos often become habits over time. And our habits have the ability to make us more or less effective on any given day. In this session, Sean will explore how you can change your existing habits and introduce new habits that will not only improve your projects, but your life. Sean Hearne draws his ideas from over 20 years of experience in program and project management, having observed and learned high-performance habits from teams around the globe. He is inspired by the work of authors Charles Duhigg and James Clear, as well as teachings from internationally renowned soccer coach Anson Dorrance. By attending this session, you will learn how to: Apply techniques for putting new habits into your daily life Find the root cause for your current habits Make intentional decisions that can positively impact your outcomes every day Make easier to be successful in achieving your goals
Defrag Your Brain: A Balanced Holistic Approach to Life and Work Defragging your brain or training your mind to recognize and manage stress is a key component to a balanced healthy life. An effective employee needs to be focused, intentional and emotionally present as they partner with their teams and stakeholders. Learning to defrag your brain is a leadership skill that can be enhanced by learning to manage your time and well-being. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.
Untapped Agility - 3 Leadership Moves to Transform Your Transformation Agile transformations are supposed to make organizations modern. competitive. and relevant. But in the well-intentioned effort to move into the future. change leaders find themselves frustrated by pushback. limited impact. poor practices. and unfair criticism. What's going on?This breakthrough presentation cuts through the 'quick fix' hype of agile theory and explains a recurring transformational pattern that unpacks what holds organizations back: The BOOST is the initial gains from logical first steps; the BARRIER is the unavoidable roadblock that must come next; the ReBOUND is the way forward to further gains by leaning against the concept of the original boost. With these counter-intuitive rebounds in mind. this energetic talk explores three leadership moves that can be used to unblock stalled agile transformations.No. your transformation is not a failure. It turns out the buy-in. the talent. the alignment. and the growth you need to break through are already in front of you; it's all simply hidden under the surface. Undiscovered. Unutilized. Untapped. What you will Learn Key Takeaways: How labelling agile anti-patterns actually impedes the journey How to take the next step past a transformation barrier How to reframe transformation barriers into adjustments
Juggling Your Competence on Your Way to Personal Agility Everyday, we have the potential to get thrown into different scenarios and opportunities. We are constantly juggling our established skill set with new skills. In this talk, Erin Bolk will talk about the different stages of learning, how you might move through them and how to intentionally recognize where you are in the learning curve. We will also take time to look at how we can help our team members by meeting them where they are. As we go on this personal journey, Erin will offer tools to use for you and how they can be adapted to be used within your team. This session is a fun way to learn more about you and who you are! And how you develop within your dynamic team. The goal of this session is to highlight the process we go through as we are introduced to new things. As a part of this goal, Erin will be highlighting our personal growth as well as the growth of those around us. Learning Outcomes Have different learning models to utilize and reference as they interact daily with work and life. Understand where we are in our learning process affects our decisions. Learn how to Juggle!
Our Unconscious Bias and Microaggressions: Creating Cultural Awareness in You and Your World Everyone is unique, and we all see and interact differently with the world around us. Our upbringings, our relationships, our communities, and the culture that we are a part of are just some of the elements that influence our worldview and our own cultural bubble. Most people have some understanding of unconscious bias, but the term 'microaggression' may be less known to some. When heading into this presentation, it is relevant to keep in mind that due to our cultural bubbles, we all hold unconscious biases within us and that many of us have displayed microaggressions towards others. What is also true is that, most likely, everyone has been on the receiving end of such behavior whether you realize it or not. This session will set you up to become more aware of your own (and others') unconscious biases and microaggressions through words, thoughts, and impact - and how You can take action. Examining the communities where we live and the organizations where we work, we will discover how to recognize and handle the intentional and unintentional biases that prevail all around us to help contribute and create a safer personal and work environment. We will learn: What is unconscious bias? What is a microaggression and is it really micro? Where do unconscious bias and microaggressions come from? Cultural self-awareness starts with you and your world Microaggression Giver: Being responsible for your impact Microaggression Receiver: When to talk about it or walk away?
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