General Meeting: Personify Leadership: Courageous Conversations

Personify Leadership: Courageous Conversations

Through a video case study, we follow Manny as he confronts an ethical dilemma involving an employee’s poor performance. First, we analyze the situation from a human systems perspective, based on Barry Oshry’s work, to understand the underlying power dynamics. Then we look at what Manny must do, presenting a framework for courageous conversations that participants can use for their own sticky situations at work.

Learner Objectives:

• Explore the significance of managerial courage when faced with opposition, challenges and obstacles

• Learn an approach to help you prepare for and effectively conduct courageous conversations in your workplace.

• Learn to apply Oshry’s Tops, Middles, Bottoms model to analyze and better understand the inherent challenges of organizational systems.

Target Audience:  Intermediate

ATD Competency Model Areas of Expertise this session supports:  Coaching and Interpersonal skills

Speaker:

Alida Zweidler-McKay has worked as a consultant and coach since 1996, helping executives and managers develop leadership skills. Alida is a certified trainer for Personify Leadership®, and for Barry Oshry’s Power + Systems Organization Workshop® and is working toward certification in SAVI® (a communications model). She has spent 10 years in training with the Systems-Centered Training and Research Institute, where she’s currently studying authority relationships. Past clients include companies in Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Academic Medicine, Universities, Consumer Products, Pharmaceuticals, and not-for-profits. Alida has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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