
Creating Collaborative Partnerships
Change the conversation
Who would benefit?
- Newly formed teams and partnerships.
- Working relationships that are stuck, have reached a performance plateau, or struggling with competing priorities.
- Teams experiencing dysfunction or unresolved conflicts.
- Partnerships that want to learn more about effective and ineffective behaviors that impact collaboration.
What are the participant outcomes?
- Understand systems theory and its application to partnerships and teams.
- Design relationship agreements.
- Gain self-awareness of effective and ineffective behaviors.
- Learn techniques to repair workplace relationships.
- Practice new ways to build relationships and deliver tough messages.
Transforming Conflict into Creativity
What if conflict was change in-action?
Who would benefit?
- Individuals who are uncomfortable dealing with emotionally charged situations.
- Members of intact work groups who are responsible for maximizing results.
- Cross-functional team members who must deliver quality projects on time.
- Newly forming or siloed teams that must collaborate despite competing priorities.
What are the participant outcomes?
- Learn four damaging behaviors and how to avoid them.
- Become conflict competent instead of defensive, aggressive, or shut-down during conflict.
- How to become resilient and reduce destructive conflict behaviors.


Strategic Alignment
Who would benefit?
- A team at the onset of a change initiative.
- Leaders who want to shift the culture.
- Groups who need a safe and focused environment to get on the same page.
- Teams who want to be more creative and generate fresh ideas to achieve success.
What are the benefits?
- A broader perspective.
- A more complete view of the situation.
- A cohesive approach to meeting objectives.
- A holistic and collaborative plan.
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Team Development Program Features
Virtual Facilitation:
- 6 modular sessions
- 90 minutes in length
- Tailored, as needed
- 6-8 participants per facilitator
In-Person:
- 1 day
- 15-20 participants
Online Version:
- Self-directed content
- 6 modules (two topics each)
- 12 videos, handouts, resources, practice assignments
Our methodology:
- Support for the system to deepen awareness of how it operates and what is needed to accelerate success
- Alignment on shared purpose, priorities and role clarity
- Safe environment to discuss what isn't working without blame or criticism
- Design of relationship operating standards an contracting
- Knowledge of enablers and disablers
- Strategies to intentionally create sustainable success
Options:
- Virtual group sessions, can be added in-between the self-directed, Online Version for intact teams.
- 1-2-1 Systems coaching can be added-on to support the team leader.
Our approach allows us to flex based on each team or partnerships unique needs.
Virtual Facilitation:
- 4 modular sessions
- 90 minutes in length
- Tailored, as needed
- 6-8 participants per facilitator
In-Person:
- 1 day
- 15-20 participants
Our methodology:
- Conflict is a signal for change
- There are constructive and destructive behaviors during conflict
- Awareness of one's conflict response is an important step
- Experiential exercises and dialogue
Virtual:
- 90-minute to 4-hour segments, tailored based on objectives
In-Person:
- Half to multi-day, tailored based on needs
Our methodology:
- Support of team leader in communicating business priorities.
- Facilitated discussion on the current reality versus the desired future state.
- Create a safe environment where disagreement is encouraged.
- Identify misalignment and where alignment exists.
- Interactive dialogue and exercises.
- Collaborative and creative brainstorming.
Options:
Virtual group follow-up:
- Facilitated review, evaluation and adjustments to ensure focus and accountability.
What sets us apart?
We know that outcomes are a function of what (you do) x (how you do it), but we change the game with an exponent. We use the equation to help assess and diagnose the leading indicators of performance.
The Power of Why is an approach to coaching that unleashes what creates meaning as the catalyst for change. It's the Xponent!
There are four skills and a process that help us know how to develop trust with our clients...and in some of our programs we will even teach you how we do it.
We use the same coaching methodology that Deb wrote about in her book; The Cycle of Transformation: Igniting organizational change through the leader coach. This method is a transformational leadership coaching approach.
We use the same methodology that we teach in our Creating Collaborative Partnerships program; a systems based approach to team alignment on strategy, goals, roles, and rules of engagement.
Experienced building a culture of coaching and teaching organizations to use Leader as Coach strategies.
We have coached in Financial Services, IT, Manufacturing, Construction, Oil and Gas, Government Agencies, and non-profits.
Deb has a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership, and is a PCC through the International Coaching Federation.
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