Changing Behavior in High Stakes

Lead sustainable change, even when the stakes are high

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

Start your Journey

Great experience!

This workshop gave me a language for being able to see and describe challenging conversations and team dynamics that I’ve experienced in the past and how I can change them moving forward. Great experience!

Nancy

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

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

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

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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

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

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