Onsite Programs - Communication and Influence

Constructive Debate Training

Express, Engage, Explore, and Challenge

Description:
To be successful as global competitors, leaders in today's organizations must establish and maintain an environment that supports the open exchange and exploration of ideas, leading to fuller participation, greater innovation, and better decisions.

Executives, thought leaders, key contributors, and managers need to model and use critical thinking and exceptionally clear communication in making sure that ideas and proposals undergo a thorough process of debate and development. They need to learn how to minimize the impact of internal competitiveness, defensiveness, and vested interests and maximize the use of tools and processes that allow good ideas to become great ideas and off-the-wall notions to become true innovations.

In this two-day seminar, participants use challenging and controversial issues from their own organizations to develop their skills for constructive discussion and debate. They also learn how to establish the conditions that encourage constructive debate and to eliminate those conditions that prevent potentially useful ideas from getting a hearing or allow poorly thought-through ideas to be implemented.

Participants will be able to:

• Express their ideas clearly and directly
• Engage others in expressing their ideas
• Explore one another's views for the purpose of understanding and clarifying them
• Challenge others' ideas, rationale, and/or conclusions in a constructive way
• Invite others to explore, challenge, and test their own ideas or conclusions
• Offer a constructive, non-defensive response to others' challenges
• Establish and maintain an environment that supports constructive debate
• Use processes and tools that support constructive debate

Target Audience:
Leaders, managers, team members, and individual contributors whose ideas have an impact on the organization's ability to innovate and compete.

To speak with an LSA Expert and learn about program customization and delivery options onsite at your company, please contact us.