Presentations for Those Who Supervise & Lead
Staff, Volunteers, Employees
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THE VALUE OF VARYING VIEWS: 
Building Collaboration, Creativity, and Constant Improvement

Team success requires an open exchange of ideas, yet people bring to work an increasing diversity of attitudes, values, assumptions, and beliefs. This engaging session demonstrates specific ways to use these differences as a strength, encourage the communication of fresh and different views, and manage the inevitable conflict in positive ways. Plus:

• increasing listening and flexibility in ourselves and others
• disagreeing without being disagreeable
• reducing fear of new thinking and motivating more of it
• how to promote change and improvement without raising defensiveness
• getting people to expect different opinions and to better understand the value of our differences
• identifying and communicating assumptions to improve group problem-solving and planning
• and more