A Taste of Fierce Conversations®

Have you ever avoided a conversation because it was too risky, too scary, too emotional or you just plain didn’t know how to begin it?  I know I have! Most of us just aren’t taught how to have the “real” conversations in our lives, you know, the ones that truly advance our careers, relationships and lives; and the models we have via family, television and the movies sure don’t give us the skills we seek.  As a result, too many of us have careers go down hill, or relationships dissolve, or friendships fade into the past because we don’t know how to talk about something that is truly meaningful and important.  What if that could change?

The Sufi poet Rumi once said: “Out there beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field.  I’ll meet you there!”  What would it take to get past the judgment we have of each other, of the ideas of right and wrong, and actually meet people in a place where we can connect as humans – not ideas, labels or our past? What would it be like to seek connection and understanding; to build relationship over “rightness?” 

There is a secret to achieving this and it starts and ends with the focus on the relationship. Ask yourself this simple question: Is what I am about to do or say going to enrich the relationship at the center of the issue? If there answer is no, are you willing to try something different? If the answer to that second question is yes, then I would like to invite you to a special luncheon. 

I am proud to announce that I have become a certified facilitator within the Springboard NW team for a program called Fierce Conversations ®.  Springboard NW is the authorized provider for Fierce Inc. in Oregon and we are proud to be rolling the program out here in Portland.  If you manage a team, are responsible for the leadership skills or business development of an organization, serve as a CEO, or face a relationship you would like to improve, these could be two of the most important hours you have spent in a long time.

A Taste of Fierce Conversations®

“What gets talked about in a company and how it gets talked about determines what will happen. Or won’t happen.”

Thursday, August 26, 2010 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM (PT)

McMenamins Kennedy School
5736 N.E. 33rd Ave.
Portland , OR 97211

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For questions, please call: 503.806.0527 or email me at [email protected]