Changing Behavior in High Stakes

…in partnership with Dialogix, LTD; which will launch May 11 – 15, 2020 in Washington, DC Metro Area.

Learn how to read the room for reactive behavior and work with it in order to lower the stakes for yourself and others.

Do these scenarios resonate with you?

• A heated argument about the next set of product features between the product owner and the engineering lead.
• A leadership team unable to collaborate and work together, due to lack of alignment and buy-in on the strategic direction.
• A CEO in crisis, who is called to make a decision that straddles business, ethical and moral boundaries.

Leadership is “high stakes inducing.” When the stakes are high, we are not always at our best. We make choices from a place of fear, sometimes re-enacting stories of our past. Our brains find the familiar structural pattern from our past and re-enacts it again in the current moment.

• Helping the product owner and engineer lower the stakes and engage in a cross-model conversation – they can hear the different perspectives that each one brings and they can bridge ideas to create a new move.
• Or facilitate a process with the leadership team to help them voice the opposition about the strategic direction  –  they can think together about what the company needs from them for the future.
• Or help the CEO engage in dialogue to better understand the boundaries around the dilemma – the decision made comes from new thinking rather than a current mindset of crisis and fear.

Working with individuals and teams in high stakes starts with being able to do this work for yourself so that you can do it with others.