Experiential Learning, Deming and Neuroscience! I Just had a Geekgasm

If you want to transform a system, you can’t get there with the same knowledge you built it with. The neural structure that built the system, and it sucks, is going to re-build it so it sucks worse…. There is no system transformation without biological transformation within you.

6 Coaching Questions for Teams

These 6 questions can be cascaded through the organization. Creating a shared language that is known and expected from everyone in the department.

You cannot teach a tadpole to be a frog by giving it jumping lessons

Few companies know to deal with hiring and promotion mistakes and they repeat them, knowing that they are creating failure and organizational chaos.
Unfortunately the employee, that is now in the role that they cannot adequately fill, is usually punished by termination or sent to training.
You cannot teach a tadpole to be a frog by giving it jumping lessons.
People cannot be taught, coached, developed and/or trained to work at a level of complexity above what they are capable of doing.

Strategy for Leadership Development

Effective leadership development is too important for the present and future success of a business to be left to the human resources department. It is a core activity to grow leaders.

Partner Connection Team Building Activity

Partner Connection – Variation of Infinite Loops TeamBuilding Activity.
Outcomes & Objectives:
Creating connections
Learning from experience
Solutions thinking

Work is Selling We are all in sales now

Work is selling and we all need to focus on persuading others to assist us in completing our work. Managers, especially, need to work to uderstand other perspectives. Plus an understanding that looking for certain personality traits in employees is a waste of time.

Thinking Through Innovation With Canisius College

Canisius College’s Center for Professional Development and I are offering.
Thinking Through Innovation
A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices.