Gabriel

[Gabriel]

Hi Danny,

I think Francine’s ideas are great.

A few years ago I had to design and facilitate a worksop to help a tech startup better collaborate after being acquired by a tech giant. The CEO’s main concern at the time was seeing an increasing level of silo mentality. So the workshop focused on two main elements trust and collaboration in an agile environment. I had two hours and 51 participants. So I adopted a laser focused approach. What worked to my advantage was that the participants were all young developers, sharp and fast learners. This made it easy for me to do the skills building in 30 min. The last exercise in the skills building, the one about a nightmare boss was a great Segway into the topic of trust. Everyone built their model of what trust represented in their working environment, this opened up the possibilities of using trust a foundation to collaborate. So the exercises that followed were based on the Snowmobile or Go Cart examples. In the 60 min left, I had them go through individual and shared models in teams of 6-7. From cross-functional departments. To evaluate the impact of such an unusual workshop, I had everyone fill out a short survey before and after the workshop, and that’s when I realized a shift in mindset had happened.

I hope my example helps somehow your process. Best of luck,

Gabriel

[Gabriel]

Hola Alejandro,

Great initiative! Although I didn’t call it brand, I designed quite few workshops that focused on personal identity. I saw it more as a piece of a greater puzzle. What makes an organization, is a collection of teams, and what constitutes a team, is a collection of individuals. So designed a workshop I would offer to entrepreneurs to find their voice and align with their true calling, all this based exactly on Johari’s window. What I found and learned in the process was how important it was to remove any points of reference that would ultimately influence the building of models. So to answer your question, my suggestion would be to avoid any pre-work or pre-reading. This allowed my client, to fully go all out when I asked her to build a model that described the main characteristics of her life in the future… some kind of of real time strategy for individual, after going through the Johari questions. It worked great. Anyways that’s my two cents worth. Good luck.

Gabriel

[Gabriel]

Rodrigo, Manuel

thank you for your feedback. I will definitely attempt reach out to you.

Gabriel

[Gabriel]

Hi Marko, please also add me to the channel: gabriel@gyconsulting.com

Thank you!

[Gabriel]

Hello Elaina,

I work out of Montreal (Quebec, Canada), less than 1:30 flight away from Pennsylvania. I am a certified LSP facilitator and would be most happy to help you. I’ve designed a few leadership LSP workshops, mostly for teams of executives.

If you’d like, we can chat via skype to discuss your requirements and see if there is anyway I can be of help. My skype is: gyoussef.

Take care.

Gabriel

[Gabriel]

Thanks Eli for all your input.

Gabriel

[Gabriel]

Hi Eli and Sebastian,

thank you very much for your respective inputs.

General question to both of you: when you designed your respective workshops, did you at any time mention to your client you were going to use LSP? In other words was was the selling argument? I still struggle with that part. I always use a solutions based approach and end up telling my clients I will use a special tool: LSP. But they seem reluctant. Then when I go into explaining why and the benefits, they generally say WOW! But still hesitate.

Sebastian: it’s funny that you mentioned Lencioni, I am actually reading his book as we speak. In fact the project sponsor has asked me to read it and see if I can build a workshop around it. I was not yet sure how to use LSP with it. But I guess I have the answer now! Can you tell me after this workshop, did you get a feel or sense that the team became closer? That they actually opened up to each other to show their vulnerabilities and their strengths, as Lencioni stated? How was the overall mood at the end?

Eli: I am not sure I understand what you mean by Pair Build… is it when two people work on one same model? In this case the nightmare colleague? Can you please elaborate? Also, I see that you used connections, I have not yet had the experience of going this far with a workshop. All the workshops I’ve conducted went to landscaping at most. How did the participants experience this part of the workshop? Was it complicated to make them understand? Also how many people were in this workshop?

Thank you so much for your inputs

Gabriel

[Gabriel]

Hi Manuel,

This could be interesting – I saw TrainedOn, and it looks like a fabulous platform. However I am concerned about the price! One could just use the DropBox that was made available by our instructor to just drop a bunch of case examples and it’s free (up to a certain space). It would be nice to hear from the community and see what they have to say about this!

Gabriel

[Gabriel]

Hi There Manuel,

I think it makes sense! The only issue I have is confidentiality. With most of my clients I am bound by a confidentiality and non disclosure agreement, which prevents me from publishing anything on the web about the work I do with them, even if do not divulge their names. What would work for me however is a secured platform that would only be accessible to certified trained facilitators.

Something to think about.

Gabriel

[Gabriel]

Hey Omar,

you’ll never know until you’ve tried it! Right? So are you trying to create a virtual LSP? I could see it with one-to-one but as the group gets bigger, it may become somewhat of challenge. I’d be willing to test it with you.

Gabriel

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