Change brings uncertainty and opportunity, and gives a compelling reason to work together.

• Is your organization ready to seize new opportunities?
  
• Do the people in your organization need better ways to navigate themselves in rapidly changing and increasingly complex environments?
  
• Are you responsible for bringing out the best from a working group or team?
  
• Are you accountable for making tough decisions, jointly with others, that must require ongoing support and commitment to be implemented effectively?

Navigating Uncertainty Learning Facilitation programs are customized courses designed to develop four core leadership competencies in participants:

1. Mastering yourself in order to lead with clear purpose.
2. Knowing what to act on in order to make the most difference with the fewest resources.
3. Designing actions that achieve desired goals efficiently while building stronger business relationships.
   
4. Facilitating collaborative work, creativity and continuous learning.

What makes Navigating Uncertainty learning programs unique?

We merge the science and art of working with people. Past participants rave about the powerful impact these programs have on their effectiveness in achieving meaningful goals with and through others.

Science:

• Assess situations and systems so that new actions go beyond the superficial and "super-busy" to the "super-effective."
• Structure and focus the thinking of the group to move from where they are at now to where they want to be in the future.
• Know how to generate ideas safely and creatively.
• Be able to harvest those ideas that will lead the group to success.

Art:

• Increase access to your intuition, so you know how and when to take the organization to new levels.
  
• Increase access to your intuition, so you know how and when to take the organization to new levels.
  Work with whole human beings with minds, hearts, souls, spirits and bodies.
  
• Improve your personal ability and competencies in managing and using your emotions to be and being more response-able.
  
• Raise the awareness of executive teams to identify how what they do and do not do affects the achievement of goals.
  
• Give executive teams the means by which they can shape their culture in a purposeful way.

Who will be interested in Navigating Uncertainty learning programs?

• New and aspiring managers.
  
• People responsible for facilitating group work.
  
• Organizational development leaders.
  
• CEO and executive teams.

"You have a great sense of humour and you are able to use something that takes place in the training room, build on it, poke at it and get people laughing, but at the same time use this to reinforce the learning that is taking place. I commend you both for adapting the training to meet our needs, skills and abilities."
Cathy Manson, Youth Initiatives Consultant, Vancouver

"Our leadership team achieved more with you in three days than we were able to do on our own in three months."
Al Thiessen, Director, Human Resources Development Canada

"You understand that people and organizations are facing fast changing trends, tight budgets and the need to work miracles just to keep up…"

Programs that are ready to go.

These programs are organized by module with proven delivery results. When we deliver these programs, we adapt them to fit the application needs of the participants. We can also adapt specific modules to better fit the client's situation.

The Intuitive Facilitator

This course serves:

• Individual team or group leaders in positions where they need other people to get the results they seek, whether it is planning, decision making or cross team tasks, strategic thinking.
  
• Facilitators, managers, group leaders, consultants.

Take home:

• Tools and insights for assessing situations and defining goals.
  
• Clearly designed thinking steps for issue identification, action planning, continuous improvement/feedback, and collaborative decision making.
  
• Practice at facilitating groups through these thinking steps, and at while merging the group dynamics into the steps of how things get done.
  
• Understanding and awareness of how to flex with the group's needs so you both you and the group dance together.
  
• Heightened awareness of your personal strengths and areas to work on, so you remain part of the solution.

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Getting to the Heart of the Matter

Fine tune your instincts for going deeper into the group dynamics to uncover what is truly at work.

Have you ever experienced one of these?

• The same old issues keep on coming back.
  
• Your task is to lead two groups who are working together with two different reasons and levels of enthusiasm and you are not sure how.
  
• You ever planned to do one thing and the groupŒs needs took the meeting in a different direction? These are the things that signals that there is more than meets the eye creating confusion on the surface.
  
• Give yourself a boost and increase your ability to detect and discern what is driving the situation.
  
• Walk away with insight and knowledge on where to focus attention to get optimal results from the people you are working with.

Take this course when:

• You are a facilitator or team leader.
  
• You are a manager who wants to improve their ability to assess situations effectively.

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Orientation to Leadership

• Awareness of how you form your perceptions… so that you don't jump to conclusions based on unfounded assumptions.
  
• Clarity about what you tend to base your actions on — values, task goals, beliefs, habits, style preferences, system or peer pressure, etc…
  
• An instinct for what to listen for when determining a course of action… so you know what action to take and when to take it.
  
• Ways how to detect and verify what is important to those whom you are leading… so that they will follow with enthusiasm.
  
• Ways to merge differences into a unified solutions… so that the agreement it works for more than just you.

Use this course when:

• You have a new management cadre moving up in the ranks.
  
• You have an old management cadre who need to learn new tricks.
  
• You want to improve and increase communication between key people.

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Reading the Invisible

The brains have been stormed, what now? What intuitions, energies, or visual cues do you focus on to harvest the best ideas and move them forward, reveal the blocks or openings to effective group thinking, and be aware of our own biases. Read the invisible to increase your awareness and response-ability in addressing in session the underlying forces ultimately impacting the sustainability of the work accomplished.

Who should take this?

• This one half day to full day session is useful for individuals tasked with leading groups, external facilitators, internal facilitators, OD personnel.

Fine tune your ability to see what lies underneath and work with what most matters to people.

Click here to download the proceedings of a presentation given to the International Association of Facilitators Conference, Ottawa, June, 2003.

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Navigating Yourself Through Uncertainty

If you are in the process of changing your life and are:

• Stuck,
  
• Feeling overwhelmed,
  
• Feeling disheartened,
  
• Not sure where to begin,
  
• Want to raise the bar on your own clarity and direction…

Then take a look at www.theoctopusway.com.

Eight Simple Steps to Get What You Want from Life – The Octopus Way! was specifically written so you can guide yourself to increased clarity. The processes used, with one exception, are all processes that have been used effectively with groups, so if you facilitate, the book becomes a handbook for guiding more than you.

Click here to get a preview: www.theoctopusway.com.

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