Effective Team Communications - WIIFM?

105-minute Workshop

In this practical workshop you will sharpen your team communication skills, such as effective feedback with plenty of practice and takeaways.

Timetable

10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Thursday 21st

Room

Room D3+D4 - Track 8: Workshops

Audience

People in leadership roles: Managers, Team Leads, Scrum Masters, Product Owners.

Required

Writing materials: papers and pens, smartphone (or laptop) for word-cloud, Wifi connection

Key-Learnings

  • Break down a complex hard conversation into simpler parts
  • Recognize when a hard conversation is the right thing to do
  • Try out a model for giving feedback in a mini workshop
  • Experiment with a Gen-AI tool to improve feedback quality
  • Get feedback on your newly acquired skills from a peer

Or how to have hard conversations that actually work

Hard conversations are inevitable in a workplace. Be it your boss, subordinate, peer or even client, you probably found yourself in a hard conversation. Maybe you try to avoid them. For sure we, Michal and Ilan, had our share.

In this workshop we will highlight why traditional performance reviews don’t work anymore (if they ever did). We’ll also compare some alternatives. We will address how to recognise a hard conversation and how to approach it differently, we will focus on performance reviews in particular, and mainly:

  • How to give and receive feedback

In this mini workshop we will deconstruct how to prepare for and conduct a hard conversation. You, participants will have the opportunity to try out a hard conversation in a safe lab and get feedback from a peer.

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