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Breaking Out of Stuck Patterns AgileBoston Oct 2018
DESCRIPTION
Do you ever feel like you’re having the same conversation over and over again with no real progress? Do you ever feel like you are stuck in a disagreement and not sure how to move forward?
If any of these issues are standing in the way of your teams ‐ ‘how’ you are having (or not having) the conversation is likely contributing to your challenges. Research consistently demonstrates that team effectiveness is highly dependent upon the quality of the communication between team members. Yet it’s easy to get into the flow of daily work and be really focused on the ‘what’ in our conversations without much attention to the quality of ‘how’ we’re communicating.
As a team leader one of the most important ways you can serve your team is to help them unlock the wisdom that exists within and have the conversations they need to have. We’ll explore a framework for learning to ‘read the room’ using four elements for all face-to-face communication. We’ll do some live practice to apply the framework to a conversation and then identify some typical patterns of “stuck” communications that can lead to “breakdowns” in teams.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn a language for how to ‘read the room’ and describe the structure of what’s happening in conversations
- Explore the four elements of all face-to-face communications
- Learn the benefits of each element and the traps of ‘stuck patterns’
- Learn techniques that can be used to create more effective conversations
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AGENDA
6:30 PM Agile Introductory Topic
7:00 PM Food & Networking
7:25 PM Keynote Presentation by Marsha Acker
8:25 PM Final Q & A and Announcements
8:30 PM Done!
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