Introduction to Improving Team Communication - Module One: Free Course
Understanding the importance of brain chemistry and how applying that to conversations can make a big difference using as an example the three levels of convers
In this FREE module we will explore some of the basic information that has a direct impact on how we work together as humans. I will share several tools that you can apply immediately to your team conversations derived from brain science and neurobiology. These tools and brain chemistry are fundamental to all of the other modules.They form the foundation for making a conversational shift that will open up the space for innovation and creativity for you and the people you work with.
Tools you will receive:
- Moving from Cortisol to Oxytocin
- Conversation Dashboard
- Three Levels of Conversation
If you take the full five module course you will have the option of obtaining a certificate by doing additional work. The certificate program also comes with direct feedback and coaching from me.
Your Instructor
I am a coach, consultant, author and educator; an expert in ethics, systems thinking and change, my work brings a resilient and futurist approach to the pressing needs of my clients. I work with the whole person; body, mind, spirit and emotion, helping my clients learn to fly. That means to live authentically and to impact the world profoundly. My clients are values-based leaders wanting to make a difference.
My entire career has been working to develop collaborative organizations. Collaboration does not come easily to some people, but it is a skill that can be learned. Collaboration is NOT consensus. The rotating leadership and shifting contributions essential to true collaboration makes it difficult to tell who did what, eliminating the competition and power plays so common to most organizations.
Collaboration requires different structures and ways of working together. I have spent my entire career collecting techniques and methods that have proven track records with other organizations. Collaboration takes time and education to institutionalize because people need to forget old ways of working and give up old habits. Providing experience in new ways of working together helps immeasurably in this transition, that why I work with collaborative techniques in my meeting designs.
My products include: The Birds of a FeatherÔ culture assessment model, The Sustainable Values SetÔ and assessment model, the Strategic Values Set™ and assessment model, as well as five books concerning the applications of values to strategy, teams and culture development. I am the co-creator of the Transformational Learning and Performance Matrix with Vern Allee.
As a professional photographer I have been recording the essence of nature for over forty years. By making small things important I intend to expose the essence of my subjects, sharing that blessing with others.
I have a Master’s degree in Organizational Development and Transformation and have done doctorate work at Saybrook University in the areas of systems thinking and organizational development. I am also a Spiritual Humanist minister and a certified Conversational Intelligence® coach. My strong spiritual background and the help of my Unitarian Universalist church and friends allowed me to beat stage three b liver cancer without using either chemo or radiation in 2005, giving me some insight into the relationship of the body, mind and spirit.