Advanced Communications Skills - Dialogue

• Achieving the appropriate balance between advocacy and inquiry in your discussions
• How to manage a productive discussion between two polar opposite positions
• How to facilitate a dialogue between two conflicting parties
• Using the dialogue approach to coach someone from a focus on "what's wrong" to "what's possible"

Overview…

Once you have become proficient in the basics of communication, the complexity and pressures of modern organizational life require you to apply them in a sensitive and sophisticated manner. Increasingly, optimal solutions to problems are born out of shared perspectives. Those who have the "one right answer" dangerously limit our options.

This workshop presents cutting edge concepts and approaches from the newly emerging field of communications called dialogue. Discover how different perspectives around a problem can be expressed, honored and examined without the parties feeling they have given in on their original positions.

Mobius Model
This workshop utilizes the Mobius Model, a powerful "roadmap" for keeping problem-solving conversations open to possibility and maintaining the well-being of individuals who bring different perspectives to the table.

Mobius Model™ is a trademark of Mobius, Inc. Minneapolis, MN

Points Regarding This Program…

• Target audience is managers or key individual contributors whose success depends on leading others in finding solutions for complex issues where strong differing points of view are typically involved.
• Prerequisite: Attendees for this program must have completed Fulcrum Associates' program Core Communications Skills.
• This workshop works particularly well as a follow-on from Fulcrum Associates' Managing Through Others leadership program.