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Changing Behavior in High Stakes

Lead sustainable change, even when the stakes are high
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Read the room and a system behaviorally, name the hidden dynamics and work with human behavior in crisis

We will explore how the structure of our language informs our behavior and shapes our reality. By deconstructing the structures that sit behind our reactions, it becomes possible to understand and change the disruptive patterns of behavior that can erupt without warning.

Using Structural Dynamics, we explore the range of powerful, but invisible forces which drive our face-to-face interactions when the stakes are high. This means being equipped to map patterns of behavior and understand how they show up at particular interfaces.

By participating in this workshop, you will…

  • Map behaviors
    across teams, organizations and wider systems
  • Work with the most challenging behaviors
    in high stakes environments
  • Work with visible and invisible behavioral dynamics to ensure durable change
  • Read reactive
    behavior
    in self and others and develop the ability to lower the stakes for self and others
  • Gauge an organization’s moral compass and design and lead dialogic team and organizational interventions

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Self-Mastery and System Skills
Exceptional Leaders and Enterprise Behavioral Agile Coaches are skilled in self-mastery and making system-wide interventions often in the most challenging and high stakes environments. As we work with behaviors, this program will serve as a “live learning laboratory”. The workshop includes a mix of personal reflection time and group work to help integrate conceptual learning with practice development.
Self-Mastery

Understand how context, triggers and themes raise the stakes for you including degrees of reaction and how your behavioral preferences change between low and high stakes _________________

Know your characteristic responses, shadow behaviors and shadow dances associated with the postures of moral justice and heroic modes

_________________

Know your own childhood story and how it impacts on you in high stakes in order to gain greater command of self under pressure

_________________

Know how to lower the stakes for yourself using core principles for managing high stakes effectively

System Skills

Map a system to identify leverage points for behavioral change and know how best to prepare for interventions at high stakes interfaces within an organization _________________

Understand the importance of moral sensitivity and the mechanisms through which moral corruption can take place

_________________

Work with high stakes behaviors within the context of a system in crisis including dealing with the impact of perturbance

Workshop Details and Information
Here is what we will cover in the Changing Behavior in High Stakes Workshop:
  • Identify features of ‘contracting’ and preparing for high stakes interventions
  • Know how to build a container with sponsors and with the groups and parts of the system you are working with
  • Know how to use Generative Dialogue to help a team and/or system reveal more about itself
  • Be able to discern the various voices and perspectives whilst remaining neutral and bystanding the system
  • Become skilled at observing, identifying and transforming high stakes behaviors that are contributing to reactivity and may be deeply entrenched including e.g., working with Structural Imprints
  • Work proactively with perturbance particularly when the stakes need to be raised and deal with associated escalation
  • Know how to lower the stakes for others using core principles for managing high stakes effectively
  • To learn more about the prerequisites & pre-work for Changing Behavior in High Stakes, click here.

Learning Environments that Create Impactful Results

  • This course is held in daily 3-hour segments over a 5-day period. Please see the workshop calendar for specific times.
  • TeamCatapult has been conducting online courses since 2015, so we’re well-equipped to meet the expectations you have for online learning. We even provide a Tool Check before each course so that you can optimize technology for your learning experience.
  • Participants must have previous facilitation training (such as our Agile Team Facilitation Workshop) and be able to demonstrate knowledge of basic facilitation skills.
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    Certifications & Pre-Requisites

    This class is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
    Participants are eligible for the following Continuing Coach Education (CCE) credits: Core Competencies – 14
    Resource Development – 20

    This program is offered in partnership with Dialogix
    Prerequisites & Pre-Work

    Prerequisites:

    Successfully completing Making Behavioral Change Happen workshop.

    Pre-Work:

    Complete 2 hours of pre-work, which includes an assessment, a one-hour coaching session, and watching a video.

    During the workshop, everyone attends two small group calls; and two more 1:1 coaching sessions.

    * Payment Plan:  Contact us to inquire about a payment plan option

    Learning Environments that Create Impactful Results

  • Enhanced Retention. Active engagement and experiences provide greater retention of the information...building confidence to turn theory into practice.

  • Greater Self-Awareness. Through critical thinking and reflection, which is the source of new behavior.

  • Increased Motivation. Learning is practical and hands on, creating inspired action to make changes...coupled with practice and real-time feedback.

  • Prerequisites & Pre-Work for CBiHS

    Prerequisite:

    Successfully completing Making Behavioral Change Happen is required to attend Changing Behavior in High Stakes

    Pre-Work:

    You are required to complete approximately 2 hours of pre-work prior to beginning the workshop. The pre-work entails an assessment, a one-hour coaching session, watching a video, and reading.

    You will also attend two small group calls: one between Part 1 and Part 2, and the other one following Part 2; and two more 1:1 coaching sessions.

    * Payment Plan:  If you’d like to inquire about a payment plan option, please email pciccone@teamcatapult.com. 

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