Notes - Kimberly's Consulting Collaboratory Q4 - Nov 20, 2015

Participants (alphabetical)

Barry Kayton (barry@cognician.com)

Ellen Grace Henson (egh@mktgmech.com)

Gideon Shaanan (gideon@shaanan.com)

Jan Allen (janallenconsulting@gmail.com)

Jeff Richardson (Jeff@EmpoweredAlliances.com)

Juan Montermoso (jp.montermoso@comcast.net)

Kimberly Wiefling (Kimberly@wiefling.com)

Kraemer Winslow (kraemer@mypcommunications.com)

Lucy Freedman (lucy@syntaxforchange.com)

Lynnea Hagen (lynnea@pacbell.net)

Marianna Grossman (marianna.grossman@gmail.com)

Matt Schlegel (mschlegel@sakinoconsulting.com)

Mitchell Levy (mlevy@thinkaha.com)

Nathalie Udo (nudo@indepthstrategies.com)

Oliver Yu (oliver.yu@sjsu.edu)

Robert Tatkin (RJTatkin@oal.com)

Rod King (rodkuhnhking@gmail.com)

Rosemary Coates (rcoates@bluesilkconsulting.com)

Ruth Simone (resimone@luminarecoaching.com)

Tom Okada (tom@tortugapacific.com)

Agenda

Icebreaker by Lucy

Demo Collab Tools by Barry

Present by Kreamer Winslow

Complexity by Gideon

Closing Circle

Our Virtual Communities

Learning from Each Other

    • Demo Collab Tools by Barry Kayton - Cognician (https://www.cognician.com/)
        • Background instructional designer
        • Cognician self-coaching platform and learning methodology help companies to achieve large-scale behavior change. We partner with consulting firms to build change support products for their clients. And we build customized learning and change programs for large organizations.
        • 36 leadership competencies
        • Process:
            • Starts with an assessment
                • How well do you manage people?
                • How well do you manage processes?
            • Arranges 36 competencies based on your assessment results
        • Software based but not artificial intelligence. Partnered with a coaching company for the content.
        • Software doesn’t analyze the responses.
        • Take coaching models and build half a conversation. The coached person creates the other half. The process walks the person through a process to come up with the solution themselves exactly as normal coaching.
        • Software can reach total pyramid while coaching only reaches top of the organization.
        • $300/per user per year
    • Being Clear, Concise and Compelling by Kraemer Winslow - http://mypcommunications.com/myp/Team.html
        • Why?
            • Short attention span
            • Too much info out there
            • If I talk less than I can listen more
        • Everything needs to be actionable
        • Focal point technique
            • Understanding Information Processing and Presentation styles
                • Inductive - Specific => General
                • Deductive - General => Specific
                    • Headline Summary first to catch attention
        • Where to apply the focal point technique
            • practice
            • on the spot conversation
            • writing emails
        • Practice
            • Maximum of up to 20sec of information with maximum up to 3 sentences
            • Think before responding
            • Incorporate question in your answer
            • Be deductive - the headline first and then the details
            • Do “retakes” - practice / edit your answer over & over
        • Another technique to facilitate prompt and appropriate communication is SBAR - Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation
        • Think about how you will answer “how’s it going"
    • Complex Adaptive Systems - What the Hell by Gideon Shaanan