Communication Strategies with Strategic Peers: Geodesic Team Secrets to reducing the common communication gaps found among the "CXO's"
Become a star CIO and take an influential seat at the table. This module will teach you how to develop the political, marketing, and interpersonal skills you will need to be an effective CIO, develop your strategic alliances, and shine. The difference between a mediocre CIO and a very effective CIO is the ability to interact judiciously in the political and strategic arena of the C-level executives.
Learn how to employ Geodesic communication style mapping to become better integrated into the political decision processes of the corporation, with an enhanced ability to align with the other C partners. You will take a greater proactive leadership role to strategically create wealth in the company and gain credibility in the eyes of other Cs. These new techniques will enable you to become invaluable in helping them accomplish their strategic initiatives while gaining the support for your own.
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Management Development: How to coach your department into total alignment with the business blueprint.
Learn Geodesic strategies to adapt your coaching style for individual situations based upon the staff member's Geodesic communication profile. One coaching method doesn't fit all. Develop each person in a communication style unique to the individual.
With enhanced Geodesic soft skills, time is saved, ambiguity turns into clarity, and communication flow reduces stress ---renewing synergy. Building this relationship system really can be fun, producing lasting personal and professional outcomes.
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Extreme CIO Turnaround Tactics: How to employ Geodesic principles to rescue dysfunctional situations
Learn the Geodesic Team Development™ tools to resurrect your IT organization. Unravel the puzzle of disruptive people and political issues by fixing, improving, and bridging the communication gaps destroying the productivity of the enterprise. In each turn-around assignment, there are always difficult, misunderstood people and situations that are complicated, untenable, and downright need to be changed fast and NOW.
Using Geodesic mapping strategies, enter the picture, and masterfully decipher the who, what, how, and why of the dysfunctionality. Create a strategy to clean up the mess, and return the focus of the IT staff to legitimate business and user requests. You'll be able to take the reigns and courageously purge under performance and jump-start positive energy for innovation to unfold. Immediately boost poor morale, recruit easily, reduce IT turnover, save the time of useless mirco-management, needless interventions, redress trust, and align the IT department with the Business Blueprint.
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Project Management: Learn Geodesic Team Development™Techniques for simplifying the project management process.
Employ Geodesic communication style mapping to create synergy with other key players for increased buy-in at every level of the project. Learn techniques to inspire compliance with standards and policies and increase resource collaboration cross-functionally.
Close the communication gap among staff. Bring clarity, excitement and renewed energy to the project allowing the process to unfold systematically through the project-management stages: definition of roles, responsibilities, standards and policies, evaluation, resources, goals and objectives.
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Stress Management: Powerful Geodesic methods for ending the endless loop of stress.
Unmanaged, the effects of one stressful unresolved situation will spill over and infect everything you do rendering you a less effective leader and strategic partner in the corporation. However your mind, uninhibited by these stress invaders can access information faster than a computer. Stress is the number one inhibitor of your mind's natural process. This program teaches you a few simple Geodesic awareness techniques which enable you to take control of your mind, lower your anxiety, and become completely attentive to the situation at hand.
De-stressing yourself also reduces the impact of your stress on others. They may not tell you the strain your anxiety causes. With these techniques, you will end the endless loop of stress causing more stress. Your positive influence will be felt in all spheres and offer different pathways to resolve tensions.
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Navigating Change: Weathering the ride with Geodesic principles
Use Geodesic mind mapping tools to manage yourself and others to discover how geodesic personality traits often determine how smoothly the necessary changes and shifts take place.
Learn to gracefully embrace the change and manage the short-term roller coaster of adjustments into the longer term innovations ---Thus bringing equanimity, humor, persistence and vision to the change in place of the emotions of shock, fear, and resistance.
Mastery of these geodesic techniques enables you to foster exuberance, acceptance, and support for new strategies, projects and procedures enhancing your branding as a high-performance IT leader.
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Presentation Skills: How to create your personal presentation brand based upon your Geodesic communication style.
Your branding comes across in how you represent yourself through your interpersonal skills. In other words, how you represent yourself (your branding) comes across through your interpersonal skills which impact your ability to deliver presentations (mass communication).This very unique presentation skills program shows you how to map your Geodesic communication style and formulate and enhance your own personal brand for more effective mass communication..
Learn techniques to help you deepen your connection with your audience, have more physical energy, be more relaxed, control vocal energy with volume, and use vocal variety to avoid boring monotone.
Enhance your brand by identifying and using different approaches to fit various purposes of speaking. Knowing your audience determines whether to speak to inform, speak to influence, or to speak diplomatically such as with a confrontational audience. Learn how to think on your feet, “buy time”, and answer spontaneous questions.
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Conflict Resolution: The Power of Turning Conflict into Geodesic Innovation
This highly experiential and practical workshop is for both new people and veterans interested in avoiding conflicts and resolving them. You will learn conflict resolution in the context of your own group dynamics, and in your own setting, so that you can both mediate disputes and coach others.
Program content includes focus on your Geodesic mind set, language and process skills you bring to the mediation process. In addition, you discover what blocks communication and what promotes it and how to use Geodesic Team Development tools to turn any conflict into fuel for innovation.
In the context of dealing with difficult people, Geodesic personality mapping produces new strategy options to manage yourself and others. This includes listening, framing/re framing, and handling strong emotions. Joint problem solving and win-win-win negotiation, and innovation are the result ---Constructive relationships with staff ensue, resulting in conserving time and energy
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Art of Collaboration: Geodesic Team Building strategies to create a "Unifying Team Identity", "Joint Ownership of Goals", and a "Shared Reality"
At the core of building a successful team stands the personal brand of their leader/coach. Learn how to identify your own unique Geodesic communication style as well as those of the team members to take your team to a new level of cohesiveness and trust.
Build on the team's shared vision to cement a strong team identify. Unite them in a common purpose, and coach each player in identifying their key role. Foster appreciation for the roles of others and create an atmosphere where diversity of opinion is embraced, appreciated and encouraged.
The group form of the "Team Building Module" focuses on improving the behavior and communication among your team members to foster creativity, collaboration, and fun. As the members help each other identify their Geodesic personality and communication styles they are able to reveal their strengths, limitations, and blind spots ---Taking the best from each, a group of disparate people are transformed into a collaborative team. The art of balancing strengths and weaknesses drives innovation forward, creating exciting synergy and exponential results.
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Negotiation Skills: How to apply the "Geodesic Team Theorem"™ to negotiate winning solutions for all parties.
Geodesic negotiating starts with the premise that all negotiation takes place within a triad of "me, you and us". There is always a win/win/win solution when the parties are able to shift awareness back and forth between each level (i.e. individual, departmental, and enterprise.). The process uncovers the shared identity, true needs and intentions behind the various party's requests. Solutions spontaneously emerge facilitating a mutually beneficial resolution.
Mastery of these techniques will enable you to transform opposing parties into allies and create an environment where winning solutions emerge naturally with honest buy-in of all parties.
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