Conversational Leadership Training

Overview:

Smart leaders know that the strength of a strong team lies within the team members themselves. They understand how powerful an opportunity can be when they can tap into the intelligence, wisdom, and innovation present in their workforce. 

Conversational leadership provides the space and infrastructure for knowledge sharing to take place; for employees, stakeholders, and the community to be involved in discussing big, important questions; and to generate solutions that people within the organization can take action on.

Conversational leadership skills can help leaders leverage that power through knowledge sharing, collaborative problem-solving, and solutions developed by the team. The World Café approach provides a clear model for building and implementing those skills to help you develop your conversational leadership style.

Course Objectives

• Understand the wisdom inherent in encouraging conversational leadership
• Describe the four I’s of conversational leadership
• Apply the principles of conversational leadership to improve results
• Organize a simple World Café as an example of conversational leadership

• Learning Objectives
• Pre-Assignment
• Pre-Course Assessment

• Pre-Assignment Review, Part One
• Pre-Assignment Review, Part Two
• What is Conversational Leadership?

• Designing Meaningful Conversations
• Building Your Personal Skills
• Tips for Becoming a Better Listener

• Intimacy
• The Four Features
• Replacing Corporate Communication
• Interactivity
• Evolving Communication Techniques
• Case Study
• Making Connections
• Inclusion
• Looking at Inclusive Communications
• Case Studies
• Intentionality
• Creating a Conversational Strategy
• Sample Strategy Elements
• Common Language
• Making Connections

• Getting Started, Part One
• Getting Started, Part Two
• Powerful Conversations
• Case Study
• Making Connections
• Creating the Conversation
• Identifying Your Purpose
• The Physical Setup
• The Finishing Touches
• Above and Beyond
• Involving Your Stakeholders
• Applying the Concepts
• Summary
• Developing the Questions
• Leveraging Appreciative Inquiry, Part One
• Leveraging Appreciative Inquiry, Part Two
• Getting It Right
• Taking It Further
• Getting to the Goal
• Making Connections
• Innovative Leadership
• Building Common Ground
• Questions to Consider

• Setting Up
• Where the Magic Happens
• Round 1: Starting the Conversation
• Round 2: Connections Start
• Round 3: Back to the Beginning
• Round 4: Conversation of the Whole

• Starting Point
• Where I Want to Go
• How I Will Get There
• Course Summary
• Recommended Reading List
• Post-Course Assessment
• Course Completion
• Certificate