Description: This workshop will explore opportunities to create a powerful new learning environment that will help your team achieve more sustainable and effective results. You will learn to recognize individual and group behaviors that prevent your team from achieving the successes you desire, and to take actions that can transform these behaviors into more effective interactions. You will return to your team with unique insights that will enable you to connect, reflect, and act with greater joy and satisfaction.

Target Audience: This workshop is targeted at those who wish to have a more satisfying team experience and to achieve greater results. We often find ourselves wondering why work with our teams is unsatisfying – both in the experience and in the results – and what we might do differently in the future. We believe that every team can achieve greater success using simple, but powerful, concepts, processes, and rules that guide their behavior together. This workshop is for those who wish to help their teams change how they work together to put more joy into the team experience.

Organizational Issues: It is a common experience in organizations to find team members who are frustrated with their experience and the results of the time they spend in teamwork. The environment that is created in many teams results in domination by a few individuals and quick-fixes as solutions to problems that will return again and again.

Objectives: Participants will

• Learn proven concepts, processes, and ground-rules that can create a more powerful new learning environment.

• Practice new skills and experience the dramatic shift that can occur in how the team can work together.

• Recognize how you can immediately put these new skills into action with your team.

This workshop will focus on concepts, processes, and rules that will change how teams operate together so that everyone’s voices are heard, the experience is more satisfying, and the results are more meaningful.

Materials Needed: None

Suggested Pre-Reading: See below

Roger Schwarz: Using the Facilitative Leader Approach to Create an Organizational Culture of Collaboration
Pdf file

Fred Kofman: Shiting from Unilateral Control to Mutual Learning
Pdf file

Benjamin Mitchell: Using a Case Study to learn the Mutual Learning Model
Blog site

The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook by Roger Schwarz, et. Al. , Jossey-Bass, 2005 San Francisco. Chapter 4-Understanding What Guides Your Behavior, and Chapter 5 – Ground Rules for Effective Groups.

Cost: None

Handouts: Available for download at this link.

Biography: Jon Bergstrom provides a wide range of business consulting services through the Bergstrom Leaning Center in Tehachapi, California. Prior to his recent retirement, he worked for Shell Oil Company and Aera Energy LLC for 35 years in a variety of engineering and management positions. During the last five years of his career, he worked as an internal consultant in Aera’s Learning Organization and developed an appreciation for the challenges and opportunities involved in organizational change. He was personally involved in many company-wide change efforts. He has provided team skills workshops for more than 1400 students at International Space University since 2000. The workshops for the Masters Program in Strasbourg, France and the summer sessions at locations around the world provide students with concepts and processes that enhance their team experience at the university.

Contact: Jon can be reached by e-mail at jonbergstrom@sbcglobal.net for additional information about this Pre-Conference session.

Websites: www.websweare.com/bergstrom

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pub/jon-bergstrom/5/292/13a

Biography: Based in the Pacific Northwest, Steve Byers is an interdependent consultant (Helping Human Systems) and trusted advisor who works with leadership teams, organizations and communities seeking to establish or renew their essential conversation about what matters to them. He teaches in the M.A. in Leadership program at St. Mary’s College of California, and with two colleagues regularly offers the New Habits of Mind for New Solutions workshop. He hosts the monthly First Wednesday Conversation at a café in Olympia, and blogs at “The Conversation is the Relationship.” He is President of the Board of Directors for Garden Raised Bounty, a non-profit in Olympia dedicated to achieving social justice through attention to the interrelated systems of food, education, and poverty.

Prior to developing his practice as an organization consultant, Steve worked in quality management and applied his understanding of W. Edwards Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge.

Contact: Steve can be reached by e-mail at smbyers7@comcast.net for additional information about this Pre-Conference session.

Website: www.helpinghumansystems.com

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pub/steven-byers/3/613/267