Vision:
What do I remember most about Convergence 2000?
The "Risk the Reins" pre-conference workshop!
Some of the workshop activities felt risky at times,
and I felt a little silly putting on horseback riding attire
for a business workshop.
I recall that doubt set in as I mounted my horse and headed
out on the trail ride. I envied the people who elected just
to use their own two feet and not climb onto a powerful,
1000-pound animal.
In dealing with the horse, I felt two-way communication
in a physical way that I've reflected on long after. After
I got used to the horse, I was able to tune in to the sound
of the birds, the breeze through the trees and feel the
sun on my shoulders. I even spotted a coyote! In the end,
I was glad to have challenged myself.
The workshop resulted in personal "ahas"
and powerful conversations with my colleagues in the workshop.
I felt very connected and creative, and inspired to apply
my learning back at work and at home.
Later, I brought the "Risk the Reins" workshop
to my organization with powerful results. I realized that
building an innovative culture requires trust in relationships.
To build that trust, I've learned to listen, build rappoire
and communicate in a way that's helped me to successfully
"sell" innovative ideas, products and services within my
organization.
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Objectives:
A One-Day Communication Workshop
where the horse serves as a metaphor to generate enthusiasm for your innovative ideas, products or services...naturally:
- Accelerate your learning through
awakening all your senses by hiking or riding horseback
in a beautiful wildlife preserve.
- Take risks to deepen emotional
connections with yourself and others
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Learn proven rapport-building techniques
that establish trust so that people naturally WANT to listen
to your innovative ideas.
- Integrate powerful communication techniques
and apply them into all arenas of your life: Work, Self,
Family, Social, Financial.
Learn and develop skills to help you:
- Quickly assess your level of
and strategic and emotional intelligence using a simple
but effective tool so easy to use you can draw it on the
back of a paper napkin (or in the dirt!)
- Discover what you must know,
learn, and most important, what you must be, to become
a truly effective communicator
- Sell your innovative ideas, products
and services
- Achieve magnificent results
that you thought were not possible.
Experiential Activities:
- Reconnect with nature, and the nature of yourself
and others by taking a reflective walk through the beautiful
Los Panesquitos Wildlife Preserve either on horseback
or on foot
- Experience the paradox of letting go of the
reins of control in order to gain control of creating
trust in relationships
- Sharpen your awareness of subtle communication
cues
- Observe rapport-building techniques that help
a seemingly wild horse quickly shift from wanting to flee
to wanting to follow
- Practice proven rapport-building techniques
with people that help seemingly disinterested customers
quickly shift from wanting to flee to wanting to follow
you.
Take-Aways:
- The simple yet effective Strategic/Emotional
Intelligence Assessment ToolŪ
- Apply the Risk the Reins learning to your real
situations by creating your own personal "communication"
plan so that people WANT to listen to your innovative
ideas
- Savor an Outdoor Experience from which you'll
draw lessons for many years to come
- Receive a complimentary copy of the book "The
New Bottom Line: Bringing Heart and Soul to Business" signed
personally by Laura Hauser, one of the book's authors.
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