These offerings aid the mission of supporting individuals and teams in doing and being their best. In their own unique way they support wholeness, interdependence, cultural competence, and collaboration.
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Description: The training explores what makes teams effective, and how to develop skills as facilitators and informed group members in informal and formal settings, in small and large groups. It takes participants beyond the idea of professional learning communities to the actual implementation, describing specific ways to weave the collaborative fabric of a faculty, develop group member skills, and acquire the principles and understandings to engage in a continuous cycle of team and individual improvement. Adaptive Schools is the “how” of professional learning communities: how to behave in groups, how to lead them, and how to facilitate them for improved leading, teaching, and learning.
4-Day, In-person Training Only https://www.thinkingcollaborative.com |
Goal: The goal of Adaptive Schools Seminars is to develop the collective identity and capacity of organization members as collaborators and inquirers and leaders.
In the four-day Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar, participants will develop:
In the four-day Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar, participants will develop:
- An increased capacity to initiate, develop and sustain high functioning groups
- New lenses for diagnosing the stages and phases of group development
- An expanded repertoire of practical facilitation tools
- Understandings of when and how to engage groups in dialogue and discussion, the limitations, forms and values of each
- Skills to move groups beyond consensus to common focus
- Ways to value and use dissension, argument and conflict
- Strategies for keeping group members on track, on topic, energized and resourceful
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Description: You will gain an enhanced understanding of the importance of facilitation. Through a variety of learning formats, you will experience the effects of the Five Mindsets and recognize them in facilitation. You will increase your efficacy and repertoire of tools and processes to operationalize each Mindset. This two-day training is perfect for teacher leaders, administrators, and others who facilitate meetings in your district.
Audience: School leaders who facilitate meetings (i.e., PLCs), Teacher Leaders, and Instructional Facilitators. Two-Day Training https://teachersasfacilitators.com |
Goal: Our goal is to increase the quality of collaboration that produces benefits for students.
The Five Mindsets:
The Five Mindsets:
- Seeing a Group As It Could Be
- Groups Grant Consent
- Prepare… Don't Attach
- Diversity Enriches
- Never Let a Conflict Go to Waste
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Description: Conflict is inevitable, and until it's addressed, it becomes increasingly difficult to work with. Just as clouds have silver linings, conflict can bring attention to existing issues hidden in plain view. Reframing conflict as a learning opportunity can help leaders navigate tension in the workplace that often leaves them feeling unheard, undervalued, and stressed. This session touches on microaggressions, differing perceptions, and other forms of workplace conflict. Participants will leave with guiding principles, strategies, and tools to help navigate conflict.
Customized Full-Day Training
https://teachersasfacilitators.com
- Overview of the Five TAF Mindsets
- A deeper dive into Diversity Enriches
- Never Let A Conflict Go To Waste
Customized Full-Day Training
https://teachersasfacilitators.com
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Description: Promoting a spirit of inquiry and authentic listening is essential in providing better outcomes. This workshop is an opportunity to build capacity in authentic listening and inquiry. This session introduces foundational components of communication tools that help others feel seen, heard, and valued. The intent is for participants to understand the what, why, and how of mindfulness, listening to understand, and posing questions. Whether collaborating with teammates, leading a department, interacting with families, or leading a school, these skills help provide greater outcomes and understanding.
Customized Full, Half, or Virtual Training |
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Description: At no time has the need for mindful adaptivity been so urgent, requiring focused, efficient and effective response to profound disruptive change. Natural tensions exist within individuals, groups and organizations when missions, identities, values, mental models and expected behaviors rapidly shift.
The polarity management framework and the underlying principles provide a practical set of resources for dealing with all polarities in life. Polarities are ongoing, chronic issues which are both unavoidable and unsolvable. Through this work, leaders can consciously use personal and group tensions, diversity and divergent thinking as resources for developing high performing cultures that promote community and productivity.
Participants will walk away with...
Two-Day Training
The polarity management framework and the underlying principles provide a practical set of resources for dealing with all polarities in life. Polarities are ongoing, chronic issues which are both unavoidable and unsolvable. Through this work, leaders can consciously use personal and group tensions, diversity and divergent thinking as resources for developing high performing cultures that promote community and productivity.
- Complexity – a broader view of both part and whole;
- Change – converting resistance to change into a resource for stability;
- Conflict – developing "Both/And" thinking and "Win/Win" outcomes;
- Diversity – acknowledging, respecting, and leveraging differences.
Participants will walk away with...
- Increased confidence in readily identifying and naming tensions in daily life;
- Understanding of the principles and tools for managing system polarities;
- A mindset of embracing ambiguity and paradox;
- Ways to increase the benefits of diverse perspectives;
- Maps and language for using polarity principles to help mediate self, individuals, and groups toward balance
Two-Day Training
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Mediated thinking improves planning, reflecting, and problem-solving
Coaching conversations can be the key to cognitive shifts which unlock solutions and create self-directedness. Using Cognitive Coaching℠ and strengths-based coaching, I support individuals in continuous improvement. Coaching can help us navigate through dilemmas, understand challenging interpersonal dynamics, resolve conflicts, plan next steps, or fine tune a product. Please contact me with questions or to schedule in-person or virtual coaching.
Cognitive Coaching℠
Gallup Strengthens Coaching
The real improvement happens when people develop, not just discover, their talents. Strentghs coaching focuses on helping people achieve their purpose using their CliftonStrengths.
Coaching conversations can be the key to cognitive shifts which unlock solutions and create self-directedness. Using Cognitive Coaching℠ and strengths-based coaching, I support individuals in continuous improvement. Coaching can help us navigate through dilemmas, understand challenging interpersonal dynamics, resolve conflicts, plan next steps, or fine tune a product. Please contact me with questions or to schedule in-person or virtual coaching.
Cognitive Coaching℠
- Planning Conversations
- Reflecting Conversations
- Problems Resolving Conversations
Gallup Strengthens Coaching
The real improvement happens when people develop, not just discover, their talents. Strentghs coaching focuses on helping people achieve their purpose using their CliftonStrengths.
- Strengths-based approach to improvement
- Accomplish what's most important to you
- Lead others to overcome obstacles
- Inspire and support greater performance