Brain-based Leadership
Development Process
Your HRD Team
Dr. Ali Atkison
Facilitator/Growth Coach
ali@hrdleadership.com
Questions on logistics, assessments, invitations, communications
HRDPrograms@hrdleadership.com
Program Materials
Workshop Action Items
- Ask 5 colleagues to rate your communication skills from 1-10 and/or which of the 9 mistakes from How’s Your Computer-side Manner you should focus more energy on.
- Meet with your Accountability Partner.
- Discuss your biggest take-aways from the workshop.
- Share how your colleagues rated your communication skills and/or which of the 9 mistakes from How’s Your Computer-side Manner they suggested you should focus more energy on.
- Review Chapters 3 & 10 in How’s Your Computer-side Manner?
- Complete the “Choose Your Own Adventure” activities in your workbook for the 2-3 communication mistakes you have chosen to devote energy to addressing.
- Meet with your Accountability Partner.
- Discuss your biggest take-aways from today’s workshop.
- Share the communication mistakes you have chosen to focus on and any progress made thus far on mitigating those mistakes.
- Think about your writing and/or presenting challenges to help Ali customize the Writing & Presentations workshop.
- Practice using your new brain-based tools: Analogies, Questions, and Enriched Environments.
- Be prepared to share at least 2 examples next time of how you have done so.
- Meet with your accountability partner to discuss your plans to use the new tools or debrief how it went when you did.
- Complete the mid-point survey.
- Identify in real time (or in recent hindsight) your use of one or more of the common thinking errors: Binary Thinking, Availability Heuristic, or confirmation Bias.
- Meet with your accountability partner. Discuss the following questions:
- What examples have you identified of your use of common thinking errors?
- How did you, or how do you plan to, use one of the Deliberate Doubt tactics to avoid that error in the future?
- Have at least one high-stakes conversation—personal or professional.
- Be prepared to report back how it went and what you learned about what went well or what you might do differently next time.
- Complete your post-competency-assessment survey by February 12.
- Prepare your group’s Capstone presentation, and be sure to reach out to Ali with any questions!
