Posts Tagged ‘Facilitation’

Pump up Performance

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

workshopsAs we ease into the dog days of summer, it’s a great time to pump up the performance of your team or organization.

One of our core values at The Wunderlin Company is building capacity within our client organizations. We want our clients to possess the knowledge and the tools they need to implement and sustain change both on individual and organizational levels. We want them to be expert facilitators, supportive coaches, and effective meeting leaders.

Over the years we have developed a series of workshops to enhance management skills. Three of The Wunderlin Company’s most popular workshops are being offered this fall. See if one of them is just what you need to pump up your leadership skills or someone’s who works for you.

FACILITATING FOR RESULTS

January 26-28, 2010
An introductory workshop that provides critical skills needed to plan and facilitate great meetings.

Facilitating for Results is a three-day experiential training class with a participant to faculty ratio of 9 to 1. Persons completing this class will be ready to:

  • Shadow facilitate an in-depth problem-solving meeting
  • Assist in the organization and planning of problem-solving meetings
  • Facilitate most day-to-day meetings
  • Become an internal leader of the cultural change initiative
  • Take a facilitative approach to his/her own work

Click here to learn more and to register.

ADVANCED MODELS FOR FACILITATION

September 22-24, 2009
A master-level workshop for those interested in taking their facilitation skills to the next level.

For experienced facilitators, Advanced Models of Facilitation exposes you to the latest in facilitation practice. It also gives you hands-on experience with new and more advanced facilitation skills. You’ll come away rejuvenated with ideas, skills, and tools that you can immediately put to use with groups.

This workshop is designed to increase your skills and effectiveness with groups. You’ll learn how to:

  • Design sessions so that you dramatically improve their effectiveness
  • Increase your own self-awareness so that you operate more intentionally with your group
  • Apply change acceleration processes
  • Manage difficult conversations, difficult topics and difficult personalities
  • Effectively utilize “standards” that will help you and your group be more authentic
  • Help your groups grow developmentally and begin to manage their own processes
  • Be comfortable introducing new models for how groups can work together, selecting the one that is most appropriate for the work that needs to be done

Click here to learn more and to register!

COACHING AS A LEADERSHIP SKILL
November 3-4, 2009
An action-learning workshop focusing on the art and practice of coaching others so that they perform at higher and higher levels.

This workshop is designed to increase your skills and effectiveness with groups. You’ll learn how to:

  • Build trust in the coaching relationship
  • Deliver “tough” news effectively
  • Ask the right question at the right time
  • Support an individual in getting clear about goals
  • Actively listen in collaborative conversations
  • Offer feedback that is constructive and productive
  • Match your coaching style to an employee’s needs
  • Improve your own “emotional intelligence” and help the individual you are coaching to do the same

Click here to learn more and to register.

The Wunderlin Company also offers these workshops in-house for up to 16 of your employees. Two other workshops are also available:

Call Karen Wunderlin at 502.895.3689 or email kw@wunderlin.com to schedule an in-house workshop.

Figure out who can benefit from these opportunities. Register today.

Because Cloning Is Not An Option…

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Wunderlin.com Screenshot

Try as we might, we’ve not yet figured out how to be in two places at one time. If a TWC professional is coaching an executive, that professional can’t be leading a team through a Work-Out session at the same time. I can’t be facilitating a strategic planning retreat while helping senior management implement a company-wide organizational change effort. We can’t be in two places at once and we can’t clone ourselves.

But here is what we can do. We can be available to our clients and prospective clients via The Wunderlin Company’s website 24/7. We’ve recently revamped www.wunderlin.com to be more welcoming, more accessible, and more helpful.

The new site is chock full of content from 11 years worth of newsletters. Since 1998, our newsletter has morphed from a paper publication sent via snail mail to an enewsletter to its current blog format.  Newsletter topics have ranged from “Choosing and Using an Executive Coach” to “Driving Change in Your Organization” to “Conducting More Effective Meetings.” All that content – information, insights and practical tips – is now available, searchable, downloadable and shareable.

The new website also lists our favorite books and websites as well as hundreds of other books, articles, and web links, all organized by subject area. (43 entries just in the Executive Coaching section.)

The site has a robust search engine. So, for example, if you key in “facilitation” you’ll get 23 links to all our newsletter articles on the subject, facilitation resources, as well as links to any of our team members who are skilled in this area.

And speaking of team members, The Wunderlin Company is more than just Karen Wunderlin. It is an international network of professionals each uniquely qualified to address your specific projects needs. Besides Karen, 13 other professionals allow us to maximize flexibility, nimbleness and responsiveness in addressing your needs. Let us reintroduce The Wunderlin Company team to you.

One of the features of the new site that we are most excited about is its ability to foster conversation – not just two-way conversation, but million-way conversation. At the end of every one of our newsletters entries is a place for you to add your two-cents about the topic at hand. You can add content, opinion, related links, questions. Others can respond, creating on-going dialogues on a multitude of topics.

We hope you will spend a few minutes perusing the new site and let us know what you think of it. The site is designed to be dynamic, offering you the latest and greatest from The Wunderlin Company. But remember, it is just one channel for exchanging information and fostering relationships.  You can always call us (502.895.3689), email Karen (kw@wunderlin.com ) or come by the office (2123 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville).

Announcing TWC’s Fall Schedule of Facilitation Workshops

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

The kids will be headed back to school soon – and it may be the perfect time for you to learn some new subject matter as well. Two of The Wunderlin Company’s most popular workshops are being offered this fall. See if one of them is just what you need to sharpen your facilitation skills.

ADVANCED MODELS OF FACILITATION
September 9-11, 2008

A master-level workshop for those interested in taking their facilitation skills to the next level.

For experienced facilitators, Advanced Models of Facilitation exposes you to the latest in facilitation practice. It also gives you hands-on experience with new and more advanced facilitation skills. You’ll come away rejuvenated with ideas, skills, and tools that you can immediately put to use with groups.by Graphic Footprint via Flickr.com
Click here to learn more and to register!

FACILITATING FOR RESULTS
December 8-10, 2008
An introductory workshop that provides critical skills needed to plan and facilitate great meetings.

Facilitating for Results is a three-day experiential training class with a participant to faculty ratio of 9 to 1. Persons completing this class will be ready to:
• Shadow facilitate an in-depth problem-solving meeting
• Assist in the organization and planning of problem-solving meetings
• Facilitate most day-to-day meetings
• Become an internal leader of the cultural change initiative
• Take a facilitative approach to his/her own work
Click here to learn more and to register.

Both workshops will be held in Louisville, exact locations to be determined. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to contact me, kw@wunderlin.com, or 502.895.3689.

Using Facilitation to Achieve Success

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

The Leader’s Role is Shifting

Leaders today face a dilemma: we are accountable for results and for making good decisions, but our work is so complex that it is the folks who brainstoring1.gifwork for us who have the information we need to make those good decisions. Increasingly, the leaders who know how to draw out the best in individuals and in the organization as a whole, who focus on the positive images of the future and guiding those images toward real results, are brainstorming1.jpgthose who succeed.

Leaders today need to be able to create meetings and work structures that close that gap between the information and the decision.They need to be able to focus on asking, instead of telling; on listening, instead of talking; and on building consensus, rather than dictating.

The Wunderlin Company has embraced this facilitation model for years and we are seeing more and more of our clients adopt it as a way to work. In this issue, we’ll provide you with a look at some tools and techniques that make this model so successful. (more…)