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Brainwriting

Brainwriting is a powerful tool that mitigates a group’s tendency to repeat what others have stated (known as groupthink) and lessens the negative effects of certain cognitive and motivational biases that can be detrimental to team effectiveness and decision quality.

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Leading Teams to Better Choices

Join this unique and highly-praised workshop–designed and led by an instructor with more than 30 years of experience in leading teams across multiple industries–to improve your skill in leveraging the potential of your team to improve must-succeed meeting outcomes. Topics include how to mitigate social influences and biases, effectively frame problems, navigate the messy decision, deal with difficult behaviors, create alignment when faced with multiple objectives, and ask the better questions to improve team engagement and foster deeper thinking.

Ask THIS Instead: Typical Management Questions to Avoid and Why

It’s a skill that everyone recognizes leaders need but it is one that is rarely taught. Rooted in the instructor’s extensive research and experience of asking better questions, we teach you how to ask the better question. Whether you are wanting to improve your stakeholder interviews, lead better strategy or business planning discussions, enrich your 1:1 direct report meetings, or enhance the rigor of your decision-making meetings, this application-focused workshop will improve your fluency in the language of questioning.

Question-Storming

Learn why Brainstorming has minimal success in helping us break out of our boxes and how using question-storming assists in uncovering the underlying assumptions that keep us locked into the old way of doing things.

Customized Workshops

Looking for a customized workshop to fit your needs? Wanting to create a blend of the topics covered above?

What’s Wrong With Using The Weighted Criteria Method

We are always making decisions., whether it’s which of the 31 flavors of ice cream to scoop or how to use millions in a capital allocation project. Is the Weighted Criteria Method the answer? Or are there better questions to ask?

What’s WRONG With Being Data-Driven?

The plethora of journal articles points to the value of becoming data-driven. But an even greater number point to why these data projects are failing. Why does this make perfect sense? What are the questions that data project leaders are …

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DEI and Racism in the Workplace

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the workplace continue to produce less-than hoped for outcomes. Research shows that despite well-intended efforts, the needle has barely moved. To what extent are organizations asking the wrong question to the wrong people? …

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