Personal and Professional Growth with High Order Thought, Leadership, and Sustainably High Performing Teams
With many years of combined experience as facilitators, Frew & Associates is unique in our facilitation style because we ask hard questions at the right time, as well as recognize and respond to a “learning moment” during an event. We pride ourselves on providing deep learning events, where individuals frequently experience a “life changing” occurrence that has a positive, significant impact, both professionally and personally. Our programs help improve trust, teaming, communication, alignment, decision-making, performance, and execution. We provide management and leadership tools that help individuals become better managers and leaders, faster.
Sample Programs
High Order Thought
These sessions explore how our thinking and belief systems impact what we see, what we remember, what we value and believe, and how we use that information to make thinking and behavioral choices. It covers the interconnection between our affective/emotional selves and our intellectual selves. It explores the natural and ongoing tension between our emotional and intellectual parts. As emotions become more powerful, the intellectual capacity is diminished and compromised even more. These sessions also explore ways to respond emotionally and intellectually in more effective ways, regardless of circumstance.
Leadership
These sessions explore what leadership is, and how it is different than supervising, and managing. Viewed as an action verb instead of a noun encourages a much more inclusive view of who can play and how to be effective. It explores how leadership requires 3 components: a purpose higher than self, a strong ethical framework, and a host of soft skills with which to influence, inspire, and engage others. The sessions explore how our best leaders view and leverage those 3 components. The sessions explore how our best leaders are proficient in 4 different directions: inward, upward, sideways, and downward. Leadership is always situational and it is simple, but NOT easy! Learn to be an exemplar leader!
High Performing Teams
The reason we don’t experience sustainable high-performance teams more frequently is that it takes lots of hard work and effort. It takes individual effort to be an active member of a high-performance team. Not everyone can play – they may not be ready or capable. It takes more resources, time, management, and leadership to develop the collective culture, processes, trust, and behaviors of a high-performance team. It takes constant vigilance, trust, and caring to make it happen sustainably. Each time a member is lost, gained, or has a significant event in their life, it affects all of the other relationships. Although it is difficult, it is worth the investment and effort!
Effective Change
It takes different skills to lead change than it does to manage change or deal with change. Change is regarded by many as one of the biggest causes of personal stress. It can also be a big stressor for collectives of people. Individuals and collectives have a preference for how they view change and a tolerance level for change before dysfunction occurs. Each decade has increased the volatility, speed, unpredictability, complexity, and ambiguity of change. We must get better at change! Navigating change and stability is a tricky business. These sessions will help to identify sources of resistance and ways to mitigate and communicate in different, more effective ways. Change is always situational and it is neither simple NOR easy! A good follow-up to this series is the paradox/interdependency sessions
Critical Mindsets and Thinking
These sessions explore how broader and deeper thinking is and how, by changing the question, it is possible to radically improve the outcomes whether you are trying large-scale intervention type of change or trying to understand and improve something small and local. It traces what is right and good about something, identifies where stakeholder energies lie, and builds confidence in more deeply understanding an issue and making positive change stick. In a world full of organizational challenges appreciative inquiry skills are more in demand and will add to your team’s problem skills innovatively and powerfully. Many of our toughest choices involve interdependencies – requiring skill in identifying and leveraging two seemingly opposite choices or multiple truths that are in tension with one another. These sessions describe how interdependencies work. This course will teach you how to identify, frame, and leverage important polarities in your life. These are mostly hands-on practicum sessions.
Effective Communication
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Building and Leveraging Trust
These sessions explore how to understand, build, and leverage trust. Different perspectives of how trust is defined and viewed are used to help participants gain ways of managing trust and being more trustworthy. Some myths surrounding trust are explored and we begin to better understand how some are measuring trust and its effects on individuals and collectives. We cover how trust generates a dividend of accomplishing things faster and less expensively and low trust generates a “tax” by making accomplishing things slower and more expensive. Finally, we see how viewing trust through the lens of high-order thought, makes it easier to extend trust and generates a much more trustworthy person.