Leading Clearly
Better People. Better Leaders. Stronger Teams.
Think clearly. Communicate clearly. Connect clearly.
Managers lead under pressure: change that keeps coming, expectations no one has made clear, and their own reactions in the middle of it, often on their own.
A program for managers in three parts: Thinking Clearly, Communicating Clearly and Connecting Clearly. Communicating Clearly, the second, is running and can be taken on its own. We are building the other two, are open to piloting the program with a group of managers, and interest from organizations moves its development forward.
Your real-world challenges are the curriculum.
Three parts
Thinking Clearly
In developmentFuzzy thinking often runs on autopilot, driven by cognitive biases and unregulated emotions, and leads to poor decisions in complex situations. This part helps a manager notice mind traps, slow their thinking down, reframe meaning, regulate emotions and form new habits: from fuzzy thinking toward clear judgment.
Communicating Clearly
LiveMessages get lost in noise: unspoken expectations, poor listening. This part offers ways to clean the lens of communication: inquiry, clear listening, and saying things in a way that makes them clear.
Connecting Clearly
In developmentLeading well takes relationships of trust and influence. This part builds an outward mindset: understanding the contexts and perspectives of the people around a manager, and accepting and respecting views that differ, so people can work toward shared aims.
Communicating Clearly
LiveSix learning loops and a self-assessment on how a person frames what they say, makes requests, illustrates and inquires, and closes the loop. It draws on Bill Torbert's four parts of speech and on speech-act theory as developed by John Searle and Fernando Flores. The second part of Leading Clearly, and available on its own.
Open to piloting
We are open to piloting, experimenting, and learning together. If you would like to pilot Leading Clearly with a group of your managers, tell us: interest from organizations moves its development forward.
Usually run for a group; it can also be run for one person with a development mentor. For now there is no open enrollment for individuals.
The meetings are led by a development mentor: one of our consultants, a partner consultant, or someone in the organization who has been mentored and oriented to run the program.
Pilot Leading Clearly with your managers.
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