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Workplace Collaboration: Green Your Teams!

StrateGems Workplace Collaboration seminars train workgroups in advanced communication techniques for creating and maintaining collaboration agreements and improving collective intelligence. Understanding how differing beliefs and assumptions affect communication and thwart teamwork helps workgroups focus on the big picture, share information more effectively, and more easily achieve their goals. In our interactions with coworkers and customers, each person’s viewpoint is unique and is a valuable asset for seeing the big picture.

Collaboration can even improve personal health by reducing negative stress in the workplace. Participants in this one-day program discover new techniques for operating with emotional intelligence in the workplace and increasing personal longevity. These five modules, which are a subset of Leadership Strategems, are the foundation for this program:

Module 1 Diverse Personalities

We are each unique in our beliefs, truths, and worldviews. The richness in our perspectives provides a unique camera-angle on the movie set of life and also explains a lot about miscommunication.

This module encourages groups to allow the expression of all viewpoints within the context and parameters of an organization’s goals and vision and to respect differing opinions long enough to at least understand them.

Module 2 Direct Communication

Speaking directly with a coworker over a communication issue can be challenging for persons at any level of development. Participants learn techniques for having positive group discussions and making agreements that become the foundation for such conversations.

This approach discourages negative gossip and creates a new group ritual of making and amending agreements. It is ultimately an individual’s ability to make and keep agreements that reveals their passion for their work and their personal integrity.

Module 3 Group Participation

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Minds working together create better solutions for continuous process improvement, and those persons who directly work with a process have the best ideas for its improvement.

Participants learn Mind Mapping techniques for vetting issues spatially rather than in a linear fashion. This process encourages greater participation among group members who might otherwise remain silent, ensuring that all brains are on board and working toward your goals!

Module 4 Emotional Intelligence

Collaboration can prevent stress, and here’s why that’s so important: Stress prevents your body from regenerating, thus accelerating aging and disease. Choosing to have a comedy over a drama makes all the difference.

Learning how our powerful minds operate at quantum levels is helpful for setting group intentions to reduce stress. So is learning the RICE recipe for delaying responses and choosing emotional reactions.

Module 5 Personal Mastery

Information overload permeates our culture and affects our minds and bodies. Participants learn visualization and meditation techniques for increasing personal awareness and focusing creative intention. The benefits for personal health and well-being are tremendous.

Program pricing varies with group size and services, such as leadership consulting and development, as well as venue and complementary team building activities such as ropes courses, winemaking, and so on. See Details for more information, and contact us to discuss your issues and group size.

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Organic Leaders, Stress Relief Tools and Techniques, Fractal Org Charts, Details

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