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  • Tuesday, February 14
    8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. PDT:

    The Power of Place for Deepening the Dialogue with Glenna Gerard
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Recent Webinars

Brain Business:
LEADING with the Brain in Mind

With Sylvia Gaffney, PhD, and Bernice Moore-Valdez, PhD
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

COMPLEXITY in all its forms and with all its resultant stress, contraction, and disengagement requires different leadership skill sets. Leaders need more than technical skills and traditional talent to move beyond coping to be effective.

Driven by Complexity, legitimatized by Neural Science Research, Mindfulness practices improve leadership capacity and capability in ways not thought possible until recently.

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Navigating Organizational Systems: Language, Tools, and Contexts for Systems-Based Improvement

Message from Bernice Moore-Valdez, ICO Consulting

I've used systems thinking in a number of different ways—solving problems, implementing improvements, thinking through possible implications of actions. I have found Jean Tully’s method of navigating through systems provides the most effective and comprehensive set of tools, language, practices, contexts, and methods for looking thoroughly at any tough and messy situation. It helps you to find the optimal leverage points and actions for improving whatever system you’re working on. Learning with Jean, systems scientist, expert sailor, and engaging facilitator, will make navigating through systems and creating systems-based improvements not only feasible and sustainable, but also fun and exciting.

I invite and encourage you to join Jean Tully and ICO for Navigating Organizational Systems, Thursday September 8th and 15th and October 6th to learn a systemic approach for better understanding and improving the systems you are a part of, wherever you work.

Fee Structure: Click below to Register

Free Introductary Session Thursday, September 8, 8:30 a.m. To 9:00 a.m. PDT. This introduction will provide an overview of systems concepts and a model for organizational success.

Session 1, Thursday, September 15, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PDT

Systems Thinking Concepts: The Parts, The Whole, and the Interactions Between plus the Organizational Success Engine

Jean will describe a 7-month project that achieved phenomenal results, way beyond what anyone expected. She will show how the team used the organizational success engine and describe how the 13 Habits of Mind of systems thinkers helped deal with changing circumstances.

  • Mental Models, what they are and why they’re important in systems analysis
  • Time Delay, how it shows up in the system and impacts progress & results
  • Emergent Properties, how they are specific to living systems & what they look like in organizational systems

Session 2, Thursday, October 6, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PDT

Organizational Hairballs, Ex-Lax, and Relief (or Managing Interactions)

Jean will introduce you to 10 dynamics that show up in all organizations, regardless of context, that help or hinder progress. You will learn a case study of a 10-year unsolvable business problem and how the team finally was able to understand their lack of progress and what it would take to actually succeed.

  • The importance of managing the interactions between the parts
  • Introduction to 10 predictable, recurring dynamics, and how they influence each other and the system in total
  • 2 case studies (Building Serviceability into Computer System; generic case, i.e., hi-growth company)
  • Generic combinations of archetypes

Preview Ahead of Webinars

Participants are asked to watch any one or all of the following YouTube videos on System-Based Improvement with Russ Ackoff, one of the forefathers of practical systems analysis:

Part 1  •  Part 2  •  Part 3  •  Part 4


How Conversation Gets Work Done:
Four Conversations for Creating Relationships and Results

Ken Homer, Founder of Collaborative Conversations
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Download Slides: [PowerPoint] [Adobe PDF]

Ken Homer introduces an elegant conversational model that greatly enhances your ability to get work done with fewer breakdowns and increased satisfaction.

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The New Leadership Mindset:
Ten Misconceptions About Compromise at Work

Elizabeth Doty, Co-founder, WorkLore; Author, The Compromise Trap
Tuesday, June 14, 2011  •   Click here to watch the video.

As we recover from the economic crisis, many professionals are asking themselves: Can we avoid the widespread compromise and excess that marked the first decade of the 21st century?  Based on conversations with more than 400 professionals in dozens of industries, Elizabeth outlines 10 misconceptions that got us into trouble and the new leadership mindset necessary for organizations of true integrity. Click here to read Elizabeth Doty’s bio on her own website


This winter ICO Consulting presented "Leading Skillful Conversations for Collaborative Action" with three experts in the fields of leadership and organizational development.

Climbing a Different Kind of Ladder:
The Ladder of Inference

Download Part 1: [Quicktime] [Windows Media]

Download Part 2: [Quicktime] [Windows Media]

Back by popular demand, these webinars were presented by Dr. Sylvia Gaffney who guided participants in understanding the practical application of the Ladder of Inference and making it work for us to create beneficial outcomes. These are designed as short and powerful knowledge bursts and mental work-outs.

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The Collaborative Leader: Leading Through Conversation
Bernice Moore-Valdez, Ph.D.; President, ICO Consulting
Wednesday, March 16, 2011  •  Details

Designed to build skills that transform differences and distances into strengths, this webinar presented two practices to quickly bring us back to center, to increased capability and insight. In this one-hour webinar Dr. Bernice Moore-Valdez highlighted the urgent need to evolve our leadership in ways that generate collective excitement, creativity, and innovation.


Creating Collaborative Cultures: The Leader's Role
Wednesday, February 23, 2011   •  Details and complete 1-hour Video
Nancy Southern, Ed.D. (bio) explored the value of team learning and provided participants an experience of collaborative inquiry. Participants had a direct experience of intentional inquiry and its power to create strategic individual and collective change.


The Collaborative Leader: Leading Through Conversation
Wednesday, January 12, 2011   •  Details and complete 1-hour Video  
Bernice Moore-Valdez, Ph.D. (bio) created this informative and practical session. The role of a Collaborative Leader is to create and guide conversations, ensuring that people learn to balance advocacy and inquiry and have opportunities for reflection. When these skills are properly applied, they accelerate collective engagement and effectiveness.


Climbing a Different Kind of Ladder
Tuesday, December 14, 2010   •  Details and complete 1-hour Video 
SylviaGaffney, Ph.D., guided participants in understanding the practical application of the Ladder of Inference, and how to make the ladder work for us to create beneficial outcomes. 



 

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