To provide employees with knowledge about the power of the ‘Positive’ for creativity and action. To gain an understanding of Appreciative Inquiry which refers to both a search for knowledge and the theory of intentional collective action and will of a group. To provide participants with tools for looking at what is working well for them and what they now need to do from an appreciative perspective, spending little time processing “what’s wrong.”

RESULTS

Participants will:

· Gain an appreciation of how positive thinking can generate positive results

· Look for ways to use the appreciative approach

· Learn and practice a process for using this approach as a way of planning

· Become aware of how much can be accomplished when looking through a positive supportive lens

· Evolve a set of core values for the purpose of answering the question “What Matters”

TOPICS COVERED

· Appreciative Inquiry theory and research

· The Provocative Proposition

· The importance of follow through

· Strategies for using this model

Instructor: Beverly Kimble – over 12 years experience in OD and training. Her specialty is organizational learning and executive coaching - Phone 703-757-7591 Email – bevkimble@hers.com

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Authentic Trust for Productive Outcomes

Trust is chosen

Audience: All employees

PURPOSE

To evolve an understanding of trust that includes: its evolution, its maintenance and its renewal. To gain an appreciation of authentic trust and its economic value in organizational life. To explore participants’ experiences of trust and to practice trusting conversations. To develop an understanding of trust that fosters improved relationships and collaboration.

RESULTS

Participants will:

· Gain an appreciation of how trustworthiness and trust works

· Delve into everyday life experiences where trust has been broken and assess the need for repair

· Learn how trusting can build motivation and creativity

· Become aware of how building trust can reduce transaction costs and how it reduces uncertainty about the future

· Appreciate the ways differing individuals approach trust, how the context of the situation determines the level of trust, and how the duration of the relationship determines trust

TOPICS COVERED

· Trust in organizations

· The High-Trust, High-Performance link

· The high cost of fear

· Strategies for building a high-trust workplace

Instructor: Beverly Kimble – over 12 years experience in OD and training. Her specialty is organizational learning and executive coaching - Phone 703-757-7591 Email – bevkimble@hers.com

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The Art of Coaching (6 to 9 months)

Being in service to others

Audience: All employees

PURPOSE

To acquire coaching skills. That involves believing in the capacity of people to lead lives of integrity and to find and cultivate their authentic selves, to create a safe, supportive environment that produces ongoing mutual respect and trust. To learn to become skilled observers of themselves, to be self-corrective and self-generative. To teach the participants how to support others so that they grow into their potential and prosper into productive, motivated, happy workers.

RESULTS

Participants will:

· Develop skills that allow them to enter into the learning process of another and to improve their ability to learn

· Learn how to encourage, support, counsel and inspire coachees

· Learn how to become stewards of the planet, communities, and employees

· Evolve skills that empower people to create a future they truly desire based on what they passionately care about.

· Learn how to help others recognize the previously unseen possibilities that lay within their grasp.

· Practice coaching skills with others and get feedback

· Observe others coaching and be coached

TOPICS COVERED

· Coaching conversations

· Learning through language, body, emotions, and spirit

· The Power of the observer

· Observing and giving feedback

Instructor: Beverly Kimble

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Coaching and Accelerated Learning

Being in service to others

Audience: All employees

PURPOSE

To learn about coaching and its benefits for organizations and individuals. To explore what it is and what it is not. To gain an understanding about coaching and its connection to deep learning and to understand the difference between teaching, training, consulting, and coaching.

RESULTS

Participants will:

· Explore the benefits of coaching vs. traditional managing

· Look at the ways they learn and their “enemies of learning”

· Explore the generative power of language

· Experience coaching through practice

· Learn how to use questions, specifically “What Matters?” for the purpose of exploration and looking at things differently

· Gain an appreciation for how “living in the questions” can be a great source of learning

TOPICS COVERED

· Various kinds of conversations

· Body, emotions, and language

· Powerful questions

· Triple loop learning

· Observing and giving feedback

Instructor: Beverly Kimble

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Critical Reflective Thinking

Using new ways of thinking to make effective, socially-responsible decisions

Audience: All leaders

PURPOSE

To help upper middle-level and senior-level managers and executives expand and strengthen their ability to make effective decisions through a variety of innovative techniques. The focus will be on identifying how we generally go about structuring and examining problems and on finding new ways to look for solutions.

RESULTS

Participants will:

· Experience the importance of allocating adequate time for critical reflection in order to facilitate learning

· Learn to identify how language shapes thinking

· Practice lateral thinking and using the dialectic to enhance creative decision-making

· Gain an appreciation for the value of exploring several alternative future images

· Examine the methods of problem solving by people and groups such as Albert Einstein, Leonardo daVinci, and Barbara McClintock, James Watson and Francis Crick, and John Kennedy's key advisors

TOPICS COVERED

· Critical reflective thought

· Structured dialogue practice

· Lateral thinking

· Double- and triple-loop learning

· Scenario planning

Instructor: Beverly Kimble

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Diversity - Ways of Knowing

Appreciate the multitude of ways there are to understand and view the world

Audience: All employees

PURPOSE

To help leaders of teams and those concerned with creating positive contexts for cross-functional, multicultural, and high-performing teams understand and appreciate the value of "difference." The course will become a laboratory for learning as we explore multiple ways of knowing and understanding the world. The focus will be on how our attitudes and cultures affect our ability to see problems clearly, and how our individual biases and experiences affect our creative abilities.

RESULTS

Participants will:

· Gain an appreciation of diverse sources of knowledge such as experience, emotion, embodiment, revelation, humor, imagination, intuition and the senses, as well as cognition.

· Use experiential learning to discover and practice new ways of listening and to become aware of everyday events as they unfold

· Develop a sensitization to the differences among persons' experience, backgrounds, origins, characteristics, ways of learning, ways of doing things, and ways of knowing

· Become aware of difference that emerges from gender, ethnic origin, race, age, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, occupation, knowledge, ability, class, and just being human and the benefits understanding those differences create

TOPICS COVERED

· Self as a social being

· Howard Gardner's 8 forms of intelligence

· Emotional Intelligence

· Cultural practices, values, and points of view

· Inclusive egalitarian behavior

Instructor: Beverly Kimble

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Directing the Outcomes of Light and Shadow

Discover the gifts our dark side offers by acknowledging them

Audience: All employees

PURPOSE

To assist all employees expand their awareness of both the dark and light side of themselves, of others, and of their organization. To see that everything that casts a light, also has a shadow – all solutions simultaneously create difficulties, etc. To explore together how to reconcile our darker impulses, find the gifts they offer – and reclaim our wholeness.

RESULTS

Participants will:

· Explore what “Know thy Shadow, know thy self means

· Learn how small acts, gestures and words of care, concern, kindness can transform organization culture

· Improve their understanding about ethics and the ever-present possibility of ‘wrong doing’ manifesting itself in public life

· Enhance their abilities to reflect on the daily behavior of their organization or group

· Improve their understanding of how ordinary people can readily engage in harmful acts, even administrative evil, while believing that what they are doing is not only correct, but good, and what we might do to prevent such behavior

TOPICS COVERED

· Carl Jung and Shadow

· The Milgram and Stanford experiments

· The Marshall Space Flight Center and the Challenger disaster

· The Holocaust and the role of the bystander

· Letting your light shine

Instructor: Beverly Kimble

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Emotional Intelligence – Growing Interpersonal Relationships

Uncover the learning potential of Physical, Emotional, Cognitive, and Spiritual Intelligence

Audience: All employees