Powerful Conversations

Our Promise

You will be able to coach people at your next level of mastery.
As your conversations deepen, your impact on others will be profound.

 

Key Features

In Powerful Conversations, experienced coaches and leaders will:

• Practice advanced skills. Bring all you know and be prepared to stretch.
• Engage in active experimentation using real-life issues. You will then get immediate feedback and expert mentoring to coach more effectively.
• Use a 40-page toolkit that is taught and applied “just-in-time”, so that theory is immediately translated into practice (see preview here.)
• Receive expert role modeling and mentoring by Steve Levin, MCC (master certified coach.)

Method

Powerful Conversations is a five-month program with 10 or fewer participants per group (to ensure lots of individual focus.) The basic structure is:

• Program launch A two-hour orientation session introduces our method and tools and prepares you for the rigorous work ahead.
• Eight conference calls with all participants (2 hours each, twice per month for 5 months.)
  • The first 90 minutes of each call begins with learning a major strategy or tool from an extensive Powerful Conversations toolkit.
  • Then we engage in coaching a live issue brought by a participant. As the coaching unfolds, we pause to discuss progress: What's powerful already? What's missing? How can we enrich this conversation to increase the impact and provide much greater value?
  • If appropriate, we turn to our 40-page resource guide and learn a “just right” skill. Then we experiment with making the coaching more powerful, more immediate, and more real.
• Regular phone meetings with a Learning Partner The last 30 minutes of each call is an opportunity to give and get support from a Learning Partner in a 1-1 conversation.
• A coach mentoring session for each participant by Steve Levin This private, one-hour phone session is an ideal opportunity to explore your personal challenges and opportunities for more powerful conversations.

What Makes a Conversation Powerful?

A Powerful Conversation disrupts the flow of habitual thinking. It sounds the alarm,
“Wake up!” to generate fresh insight and open new possibilities for action.

• Confront others with support to interrupt old patterns.
• Improve accountability to deliver on commitments.
• Increase flexibility of thinking, even if they resist change.
• Think strategically while operating practically .
• Shift attitudes from victim to owner.
• Take initiative and move out of complacency.
• Address tough dilemmas and competing commitments.
• Build trust in the face of divisive circumstances.
• Increase standards of performance.
• Set real priorities despite overwhelming demands.
• Generate support from skeptics and critics.
• Strengthen vision and enrolls others to follow.
• Listen deeply to get what others really care about.
• Influence moods to generate hope and ambition.
• Strengthen leadership presence for greater credibility.

How the Powerful Conversations Program is Different

• Engage fully in a live-action workshop, not a class with an inflexible curriculum. We work with real situations (real play, not role play) and with whatever arises in the moment.
• Give and get feedback that is direct, immediate, and supportive in our small group of 8-10 participants.
• Learn advanced strategies, models and tools as you need them to make a profound difference (see preview here.)
• Integrate what you learn into habit through experiments, practice, and feedback over 5 months – not a single event.
• Get individual mentoring from experienced master coach Steve Levin.
• Learn from and with other leaders and coaches who have substantial experience and skill.

 

 

For more information on Powerful Conversations for yourself, or for an in-house organizational program, email info@leadingchange.net or call 1-650-851-3641.